Dushmantha Chameera Over became turning point: Dushmantha Chameera’s last over became the turning point for Sri Lanka in the match against Australia.

New Delhi: Australia’s condition has worsened in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. Australia, included in Group B, was defeated by Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in its third match. This defeat may prove very costly for Australia. The team is now dependent on the matches of other teams in the group to reach the Super-8. Talking about the match against Sri Lanka, the Kangaroo team was invited to bat first after winning the toss.

Australia had a tremendous start in batting, but the Sri Lankan team tightened its grip in the middle overs such that the team stopped at 181 runs in 20 overs. Especially for Sri Lanka, Dushmantha Chameera broke Australia’s back with his wreaking havoc with the ball. This is the reason why Dushmantha Chameera’s last over proved to be the turning point of the match for Sri Lanka.

Chameera took 3 wickets for 4 runs in 6 balls.

Dushmantha Chameera came to bowl the last over of the innings for Sri Lanka. In this over, Chameera took 3 wickets giving just 4 runs in 6 balls. Earlier, Australia’s score was 177 runs for 7 wickets in 19 overs. In such a situation, in the last over, it was expected that the Australian team would fire in the air and bring the team’s score closer to 200 runs, but the Kangaroo team looked completely helpless in front of Chameera’s tight bowling, due to which the Sri Lankan team stopped Australia much before 200 runs and this became the turning point of the match.

Marcus Stoinis sinks the boat for Australia

Marcus Stoinis sank his team’s boat for Australia in the Sri Lankan innings. Although Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis had taken Australia away from the match with their explosive batting, Marcus Stoinis’ 15th over of 20 runs decided the defeat of the Kangaroo team. Because in the first 14 overs, Sri Lanka needed 61 runs to win, but after scoring 20 runs in the 15th over, only 41 runs were scored in the next 30 balls, which Sri Lanka easily scored.

Sri Lanka’s bowling was strong

However, Sri Lankan bowlers made a brilliant comeback in the last 10 overs. Australia lost the last four wickets in just six runs. At one time Australia’s score seemed to be going beyond 210, but first the magic of leg spinner Dushan Hemantha (three wickets for 37 runs in four overs) worked and then in the last over the magic of fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera (two wickets for 36 runs) worked. Chameera, who had given away 16 runs in his very first over, bowled the last over of the innings i.e. the 20th over and took three precious and valuable wickets while giving away only four runs. In this way, the score which seemed to be crossing 200 runs in the first 10 overs, stopped at 181 because the team lost four wickets in the last two overs and scored only six runs.