COLOMBO, Aug 17: Australia captain Michael Clarke has urged his team to raise their game in the remaining two One-day Internationals against Sri Lanka to clinch the five-match series.

“We have some work to do over the next few days because playing against Sri Lanka, especially in their home conditions, you have to be at your best to beat them,” Clarke said after the day-night match.

Australia, currently ahead 2-1 in the five-match series, will play the last two games here on Saturday and Monday.

“We didn’t perform as well as we would like at the start of the innings with the ball. We then came back really well with the ball but our batting let us down,” said Clarke. “We have no excuses, we didn’t perform as well as we’d like and we know that.”

Clarke said he was confident Australia can win the series if they repeat their earlier performances when the tourists won the opening game by seven wickets and the second by eight wickets. “I’m very confident that if we play like we did in the first two games, we’ll win the next two games,” he said.—AFP