<h1>Australia Seal ICC Cricket Quarter-Final Spot with Victory over Sri Lanka</h1>
Maxwell's silver hammer came down to torment the Sri Lankans. Glenn Maxwell put on one of his greatest shows before a pressed SCG to empower the hosts to affirm their spot in the quarter-finals.
Australia won by 64 pursues a paramount dining experience of strokeplay, in which Kumar Sangakkara hit his third sequential hundred of the competition at a run a ball. Sangakkara was routinely radiant however even he was dominated by Maxwell.
The intelligent Victorian struck the second speediest century in World Cup history in 51 balls – just Kevin O'Brien's 50-ball wonder against England in Bangalore in 2011 was speedier – and hence Australia could post an impressive focus of 377.
Maxwell's appearance toward the end of the 32nd over Australia, on 175-3, were on course for something only considerable at the SCG, which was busy's brilliant best. Each seat was taken and the whole Bill O'Reilly Stand was loaded with Sri Lankan supporters with their banners, their drums and trombones and their lungs at full throttle.
Somewhere else the Aussie fans in their yellow shirts and tops – in spite of the fact that they generally demand they are gold – were similarly dead set to appreciate a mild Sydney evening.
At first they saw Sri Lanka evacuate the Australian openers affordably. David Warner spooned Lasith Malinga's slower ball to cover, Aaron Finch appeared to set off from his wrinkle before Seekkuge Prasanna had begun his run-up and was puzzled. Steve Smith and Michael Clarke merged in a somewhat English kind of way - however that is not intended to be slanderous. They waited for their chance substance with a lot of wily singles against the spinners on a pitch that was dry and generally abate.
They assemble on 134 in 23 overs before withdrawing in sequential overs and in knowledge of the past they went at the correct time – for Australia. Clarke was bowled by Malinga and the catch to release Smith, taken by Thisara Perera running back from mid-off, was amazing on a weekend of sensations when the World Cup has blast into life in Auckland and Hobart.