Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    2.6 bowled 'im! Sharjeel was looking to whip that towards the leg side, this one swerved away a touch after pitching on middle and leg, crashes into the top of off as Sharjeel fails to connect, early breakthrough for SL here 2/1
    30.5 wow, how incredible is this! Malinga after putting down the simplest of catches now pulls off a superb bit of fielding to break the big stand, Hafeez pushed this one to the right of Malinga, who moved across from his follow-through to collect the ball, he spotted that Shehzad is out of his crease, Shehzad was scrambling back but the throw from Malinga crashes into off stump, Shehzad is so short of the crease that the third umpire is not required, Shehzad wasn't helped by the fact that his bat got stuck in the turf as he tried drag his bat towards the crease 162/2
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    136
    203
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    102.94
    36.5 Maqsood has given it away here, a harmless length ball that he wanted to thump for six more, he ends up chipping it to Senanayake at long-on, 21 off 21, decent hand from Maqsood 200/3
    45.2 Misbah is gone! a great hand but it comes to the end with a tame shot, another poor ball from Perera, a hit-me full toss, a touch slower from Perera, Misbah could have slammed it where he wanted over the leg side, he can't connect properly and gives a catch to deep midwicket 275/4
    46.4 short of length ball on middle stump, Afridi goes for the booming shot once more, he misses and that crashes into middle stump, Afridi is on his way 281/5
    not out
    23
    12
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    191.66
    Extras
    17 (lb 10, w 7)
    TOTAL
    326/5 (50 Overs, RR: 6.52)
    Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Sharjeel Khan, 2.6 ov), 2-162 (Ahmed Shehzad, 30.5 ov), 3-200 (Sohaib Maqsood, 36.5 ov), 4-275 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 45.2 ov), 5-281 (Shahid Afridi, 46.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    KMDN Kulasekara1016716.70335400
    SL Malinga1005815.80306110
    SMSM Senanayake1005805.80252230
    NLTC Perera805827.25213310
    S Prasanna804605.75213100
    AD Mathews402907.2563010
  • BATSMEN
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    3.1 an early wicket for Gul on his return, this was pitched up, and an uppish drive is well taken at backward point 17/1
    21.3 seemed to be a poor ball, it was very short but it stayed lower than Dilshan expected, he was shaping to thrash that to the leg side, it sneaks under his bat and crashes into the top of middle 103/4
    3.5 two wickets in an over for Gul, he's got rid of Karunaratne here, this was angling across outside off, an outside edge through to the keeper, no feet at all as he wafted 17/2
    8.6 the big one, Sangakkara is gone, he goes for the pull, he needed to get it right off the middle if he had to clear the man at deep midwicket, plenty of time for Maqsood to get under that one, can Sri Lanka come back form this blow? 44/3
    27.5 no half-century this time as well for Chandimal, after 44 and 46, he's gone for 36 today, he wasn't near the pitch of the ball though he came down the track, still decided to go for the big shot, perhaps because of the three dot balls that preceded, he slices it high and towards deep midwicket, Maqsood takes the catch, Sri Lanka are five down, the day just gets better and better for Hafeez 132/5
    38.6 who is going to catch that? surely the keeper's catch, Hafeez also wants it, the keeper calls for it and takes it, Hafeez is not happy for some reason, in any case Mathews is gone, it was a doosra from Ajmal, Mathews wanted to slog that over midwicket, top edges it and it swirls towards square leg, SL are nine down 192/9
    30.5 there's the wicket, Kualsekara was having a tough time out there, this was well outside off, Kulasekara looked to drive away from the body, gets a thin inside-edge and Umar Akmal takes a sharp low catch, well done Akmal, and that also means Ajmal breaks the Pakistan record for most international wickets in a year with 102, beating Saqlian Mushtaq in 1997 136/6
    33.6 Seekkkuge is gone, a short of length ball on the pads, Seekkuge gets on one knee and looks to power that to the square leg boundary, connects well but not well enough to clear ajmal on the boundary, an overhead catch is taken and the SL innings continues to disintegrate, and that ends one of the most action-packed overs in a long time 163/7
    37.2 that's the end of Perera, Afridi has a long way to go to pluck that skier, it was a top edge from Perera, that went miles up in the air over the keeper's head, the keeper runs back but he can't get there in time, Afridi can, takes it and then pulls out the starfish celebration to show how much he enjoyed it 187/8
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    44.4 game over, good return game for Gul, he finishes it off with a full ball that crashes into the stumps, three dots and the fourth one takes out the stumps, completes a dominant performance from Pakistan 213/10
    Extras
    5 (lb 2, w 3)
    TOTAL
    213 all out (44.4 Overs, RR: 4.76)
    Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Kusal Perera, 3.1 ov), 2-17 (Dimuth Karunaratne, 3.5 ov), 3-44 (Kumar Sangakkara, 8.6 ov), 4-103 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 21.3 ov), 5-132 (Dinesh Chandimal, 27.5 ov), 6-136 (Nuwan Kulasekara, 30.5 ov), 7-163 (Seekkuge Prasanna, 33.6 ov), 8-187 (Thisara Perera, 37.2 ov), 9-192 (Angelo Mathews, 38.6 ov), 10-213 (Lasith Malinga, 44.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Junaid Khan904024.44377010
    Umar Gul5.401933.35251100
    Shahid Afridi904114.55274010
    Bilawal Bhatti603906.50196010
    Saeed Ajmal1013723.70392200
    Mohammad Hafeez503527.00162300

Match Notes

Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st17TM DilshanMDKJ Perera
2nd0TM DilshanFDM Karunaratne
3rd27TM DilshanKC Sangakkara
4th59TM DilshanLD Chandimal
5th29AD MathewsLD Chandimal
6th4KMDN KulasekaraAD Mathews
7th27AD MathewsS Prasanna
8th24AD MathewsNLTC Perera
9th5AD MathewsSMSM Senanayake
10th21SL MalingaSMSM Senanayake