Life's a beach for Sri Lankan cricket

The first Cricket World Cup 2011 semifinal saw co-hosts Sri Lanka face New Zealand.

Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak previewed the match from the seaside capital of Colombo, where he spoke to Sidath Wettimuny - part of the Sri Lankan side that went from associate to Test status in 1982.

This semifinal was a repeat of the 2007 tournament when the teams met at the same stage.

New Zealand have never gone beyond the World Cup semifinals, while Sri Lanka were looking for their second-consecutive final appearance.

They also won the tournament on home soil in 1996 - an incredible achievement for a team who had only been in cricket's top tier for 14 years.

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[kaluwa2007]

Two tigers watched this video

[liverpoolfcofficial]

humankind lol what a joke, I've been to Sri Lanka numerous times, it's a fantastic place to visit for everyone and everyone lives together happy and free, now people don't have to worry about being ko'd by bullshit terrorist scum.

[roarfunky]

@farooqmm1987 - true, much respect

[farooqmm1987]

sri lanka matha!

[farooqmm1987]

@roarfunky stop going on about the war -it is over! peace is here!

[roarfunky]

@humankind2004 - TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LTTE's and people like you justification method could be hanging and killing people and LTTE proved it too by their actions in the past by killing innocent. in srilanka sinhalese and tamils now share, live together in the community, appreciate each other's culture and always try to ignore people who try to come between us like your self. just check your words(genocide,wipeout,hang,cr­ime,murderers,) you are poweless modern day hitler like prabakaran.

[liverpoolfcofficial]

but tough luck in the final, finalists twice in a row but chokers in the ultimate match

[cricketluvahh]

@humankind2004 BULL. 

[humankind2004]

@roarfunky

srilankan government has done the genocide of Tamils.

they have wipeout tamils from our motherland.

so

United Nation should do the independent war crime investigation on srilanka and hang all the sinhala regime murderers.

so finally

humankind need justice for the human

[roarfunky]

@shakyl008 - ar u born with bad language or u grew up with both ways make u an idiot.