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Co-hosts Sri Lanka became the fundamental team to sign up a quarterfinal place on the Cricket planet Cup in the same way as demolishing Zimbabwe by 139 runs on Thursday recognition to a superb all-round performance from Tillakaratne Dilshan.The man-of-the-match became slightly the 11th player to gain a hundred and take four wickets happening a 50-over international. Opening batsmen Dilshan and Upul Tharanga shared a competition-record first-wicket stop of 282 equally Sri Lanka made 327-6 voguish front of a homespun crowd on the Pallekele stadium voguish Kandy.The duo smashed the prior information of 194 congeal by Pakistans Saeed Anwar and Wajahatullah Wasti inside 1999, and moreover held the fourth-highest corporation perpetually inside a one-day international game.Dilshan has so as to conjuring tap with bat, globe and on the fieldSri Lanka captain, Kumar SangakkaraAnd both openers scored a century to normal a another earliest inside a planet Cup match, with Dilshan making 144 from 131 deliveries faced and Tharanga 133 rotten 141 next Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura won the toss and opted to meadow earliest.Tharanga was the essential to fall by the closing stages of the 45th in excess of, suitable the essential of four victims designed for fast bowler Chris Mpofu, and Zimbabwe did well to impede the 1996 champions to hardly a new 45 runs from the final five overs.