Melbourne: Australia dismissed Sri Lanka for 238 after Dan Christian secured the 31st one-day international hat-trick in a Commonwealth Bank SeriesĀ 12th match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
The 28-year-old, who made his international debut earlier this month, struck in the 44th over of Sri Lanka’s innings to remove Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senanayake and Nuwan Kulasekera in successive balls.
Christian was the fourth Australian to take a hat-trick in a 50-over international after Bruce Reid (1986), Anthony Stuart (1997) and Brett Lee (2003).
Australia began well dismissing both openers Mahela Jayawardene (5) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (9) for just 17 runs before Kumar Sangakkara and youngster Dinesh Chandimal restored the innings with a stand of 123 for the third wicket.
The experienced Sangakkara, playing in his 319th ODI, look set for a big score before he miscued Pattinson to deep square leg where he was caught by Peter Forrest for 64 off 93 balls.
Chandimal took over as the leading runscorer of the tri series with 383 after his 75 off 84 balls.Ā He tried to hit down the ground but holed out to Clint McKay at mid-off to give Pattinson his third wicket in the 39th over.
Lahiru Thirimanne posted a half-century before he was bowled by Pattinson in the penultimate over for 51 off 59 balls.
But Christian and Pattinson contained Sri Lanka’s innings taking nine wickets between them.
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