Stoinis' quickfire 59 sees Australia beat Sri Lanka

Marcus Stoinis smashed Australia to victory in a tight game in Perth, to keep the hosts' chances of progressing to the semi-finals alive.

Chasing a target of 158, Australia struggled early in the innings, losing in-form batsman David Warner early for just 11.

But some big hitting from Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell and Stoinis took the game away from Sri Lanka and secured victory with 21 balls to spare as they raced to 158-3.

Sri Lanka had earlier posted 157-6 thanks to Charith Asalanka's unbeaten 38 off 25 balls.

Despite batting through the innings and hitting the winning runs, captain Aaron Finch struggled to get into any sort of rhythm, hitting just 31 runs from 41 balls.

Sri Lanka looked like they were on top after the power play, taking the early wicket of Warner, as Australia stuttured to 33-1 in the power play.

The hosts faced 21 dot deliveries inside the power play, as they failed to take advantage of the fielding restrictions but Sri Lanka lost fast bowler Binura Fernando to injury in the first over and looked short of bowlers because of that.

Source: Sky News