T20 World Cup: Australia on the perfect track after thrashing Sri Lanka as David Warner regains form

Australia chased down the target of 154runs from Sri Lanka with three overs to spare to join Ashes rivals England as the only two teams in Group 1 with a perfect record. David Warner scored his first half-century since April.

David Warner's return to form was the icing on the cake as Australia thumped Sri Lanka by seven wickets on Thursday for their second successive victory at the Twenty20 World Cup. Chasing the only major global trophy to elude them, Australia restricted Sri Lanka to 154-6 at the Dubai International Stadium.

For Australia, Adam Zampa, who bowled 12 dot balls in his four overs to claim 2-12, and Mitchell Starc applied the brakes by claiming four wickets between them. Charith Asalanka's unbeaten 80 in their Super 12 opener against Bangladesh had secured Sri Lanka's thrilling victory on Sunday. The left-hander followed it up with an entertaining 35 before spinner Zampa cut short his stay.

"That was a really good performance. SL got off to a flier. But Zampa dragged it back, and then Starc. We felt it was a really good wicket and to chase that down was nice," Finch said at the end of the match. Asked who was his Man of the Match between Warner and Zampa, Finch said: "As a batter, I would've loved a batter to get the award but when you're looking at the impact on the game, Zamps was terrific tonight. He was fantastic, got big wickets. That was a world-class performance from him,' he said.