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Ruthless Australia

AFP, Port Elizabeth
Defending champions Australia demonstrated their ruthless ambition to hang onto their title as they stormed into the World Cup final with a brutal execution of Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth on Tuesday.
Defending just 212-7 at St George's Park, they had Sri Lanka struggling at 123-7 off 38.1 overs when torrential rain swept across the ground.
With a revised target of 172 under the Duckworth-Lewis
method, the Australians were declared the winners by 48 runs.
It was their 16th successive one-day victory and it gave them a place in Sunday's final at the Wanderers against either India or Kenya.
As soon as Brett Lee bowled Marvan Atapattu with the score on 21, Sri Lanka knew they were in for a hard afternoon. It got a lot tougher when Glenn McGrath sent back skipper Sanath Jayasuriya (17) and Lee mopped up Hashan Tillekeratne (three) and Avishka Gunawardene (one) to have them reeling at 43-4.
When Aravinda de Silva was runout by a direct hit from Andy Bichel for just 11, it was all over even though Kumar Sangakkara, 39, and Chaminda Vaas, 21, tried to mount a rearguard action and were unbeaten when the rains came.
Earlier, Andrew Symonds hit an unbeaten 91 after his team won the toss and elected to bat on another slow pitch.
Sri Lankan left-arm swing bowler Chaminda Vaas took three for 34 to set a new World Cup tournament record of 23 wickets.
"I bowled very well in my first spell," said Vaas, who gave his team a flying start by dismissing Matthew Hayden and Australian skipper Ricky Ponting.
"I managed to find the right spot and then the spinners took over. Between us, we kept it very tight in the first fifteen overs."
Australia's problems began when Adam Gilchrist 'walked' in the sixth over when Jayasuriya turned to the off-spin of Aravinda de Silva after the Australians made a fast start.
Gilchrist hit 22 as Australia raced to 34 for no wicket before the Australian wicketkeeper tried to sweep de Silva's second ball.
The ball looped off his pad and glove and was caught by wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara. The Sri Lankans appealed but umpire Rudi Koertzen appeared to
turn them down, only for Gilchrist to head back to the dressing room.
Ponting and opener Hayden soon followed before Symonds and Darren Lehmann (36) put on 93 for the fourth wicket before Lehmann was bowled when he shaped to cut Jayasuriya.
De Silva finished with two for 36, Jayasuriya claimed two for 42 and Muttiah Muralitharan conceded only 29 runs in his 10-over spell.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard of the first semifinal of the World Cup between Australia and Sri Lanka at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday:
AUSTRALIA
Gilchrist c Sangakkara b de Silva22
Hayden c Tillakaratne b Vaas 20
Ponting c Jayasuriya b Vaas 2
Lehmann b Jayasuriya 36
Symonds not out 91
Bevan c Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 0
Hogg st Sangakkara b de Silva 8
Harvey c Sangakkara b Vaas 7
Bichel not out 19
Extras: (lb-3, w-3, nb-1) 7
Total: (For 7 wkts in 50 overs) 212
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-37, 3-51, 4144, 5-144, 6-158, 7-175
Did not bat: B Lee, G McGrath
Bowler O M R W
Vaas 10 1 34 3
Gunaratne 8 0 60 0
De Silva 10 0 36 2
Muralitharan 10 0 29 0
Jayasuriya 10 0 42 2
Arnold 2 0 8 0
SRI LANKA
Atapattu b Lee 14
Jayasuriya c Symonds b McGrath17
Tillakaratne c Gilchrist b Lee 3
Gunawardene c Ponting b Lee 1
De Silva run out (Bichel) 11
Sangakkara not out 39
Jayawardene c Gilchrist b Hogg 5
Arnold c Lee b Hogg 3
Vaas not out 21
Extras: (b-4, lb-1, w-2, nb-2) 9
Total: (For 7 wkts in 38.1 overs)123
Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-37, 3-37, 4-43 5-51, 6-60, 7-76
Did not bat: M Muralitharan, P Gunaratne
Bowler O M R W
McGrath 7 1 20 1
Lee 8 0 35 3
Bichel 10 4 18 0
Hogg 10 1 30 2
Harvey 2.1 0 11 0
Lehmann 1 0 4 0
Result: Australia won by 48 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Man-of-the-match: Andrew Symonds.
Toss: Australia.
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (RSA) and D Shepherd (Eng)
TV Umpire: B Bowden (NZ)
Match Referee: C Lloyd (WI)