Ford hopes for improved bowling display

Two days after his team was ravaged by Glenn Maxwell’s 65-ball 145 not out, Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford was mulling over how Maxwell might be neutralised in the last match of the tour. It was Australia’s middle order that had largely troubled Sri Lanka during the ODIs, but with David Warner and Maxwell now having scored hundreds in the two most recent games, Sri Lanka will have to contend with in-form openers as well.

Sri Lanka’s attack will also have to make dramatic improvements since their last outing, in which each of the five main bowlers conceded at least 11.25 runs an over.

“In the first T20, there were a lot of balls that were in the areas that Maxwell would want them to be in,” Ford said. “We didn’t execute properly. We didn’t have a superstar like Lasith Malinga in our attack, or someone with more experience. We’ve thought about a few ways of going about our business differently, but once again it’s about execution.”

Sri Lanka had also conceded the highest T20 total ever, thanks, in part, to an abundance of full-tosses and long-hops. They played three specialist bowlers for the first time in the limited-overs series, but none could stem the flow of boundaries, as a full house …

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