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Easy build-up may have cost Australia, says Ponting COLOMBO, Sunday (Reuters) Australia's one-day captain Ricky Ponting thinks his side's excellent form heading into the Champions Trophy semi-final against Sri Lanka may have counted against them in Friday's seven-wicket thrashing. Australia cruised through the qualifying matches, beating New Zealand by 164 runs and Bangladesh by nine wickets - wins that followed an unbeaten one-day series against Kenya and Pakistan in Nairobi. But when Sri Lanka put Australia's batsmen under pressure on Friday they were found wanting. "We've played exceptionally well apart from this match," Ponting told reporters. "But we've not played a full 50 overs yet as we'd been able to knock the opposition off in 30 or 40 overs in the last few matches. "Maybe we weren't match-hardened, who knows, but all the same I couldn't have been happier with how we performed in Kenya and here, we just didn't perform in this match." The result was similar to the two sides' previous meeting three years ago, when Sri Lanka won by eight wickets at the same R.Premadasa Stadium in the final of a triangular series also involving India. |
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