Top 5 performers from Sri Lanka vs Australia ODI series

Dinesh Chandimal

Until the final game of the series only one batsman had scored a hundred and that highlighted just how difficult batting was on pitches that were offering plenty of assistance to the bowlers. Yet one look at the batting scores of Dinesh Chandimal throughout the series and one might wonder what all the fuss was about.

The Sri Lankan batsman finished with 236 runs in the series (one of only two batsmen to score more than 200 in the series) at an average of nearly 60 with a fifty and a century to his name. Earlier in the series, he was even going for the world record of most consecutive fifties in ODIs.

Although he ended his run of consecutive fifties at 5, he started the series with scores of 80*, 48 and 102. While he didn’t do as well as he would have wanted in the last two games, he was undoubtedly Sri Lanka's best batsman.