- BATSMENRB4s6sSR3.2 Didn't take Cheema long to bowl that special delivery! All pace, swinging in and honing in on middle stump, Tharanga barely had time to get his bat down, the middle stump is pegged back 30/15.3 the dreaded top-edge! Dilshan stays at the crease and tries to slog him away, gets a thick top edge that swirls in the air and Misbah takes the sitter at short midwicket 61/218.2 was a bit of a surprise at first when he gave him out, Cheema slid the ball in to the right-hander, on a yorker length almost, he swished at it, failed to make contact, the bat seemed to hit the ground and the ball clipped th edge of his pad in front of the stumps 138/69.2 that's a very soft dismissal! Sangakkara didn't know how much power to use on the shot and he ended up tamely chipping it back to the bowler, don't know if the ball stopped on him but he was clearly caught in a moment of indecision 87/317.4 tries to sweep, misses it, it rebounds off Umar Akmal's glove, the running was circumspect, Umar threw it to the bowler's end and the batsman was quite a few feet short 133/518.4 that's a good catch! Umar Akmal's thrilled with that effort, Perera made room to squirt out a yorker, got a thick outside edge and Akmal swooped to his left and pulled off a good diving catch 139/718.6 Timber! That inswinging yorker was a bit too much for Malinga, he made room, exposed the woodwork and Cheema was on target, middle stump is flattened 140/819.2 another soft dismissal, it's a low full toss on middle and leg, he makes room and clips him down to midwicket, straight to the fielder 141/919.3 they've cleaned them all up! Another yorker and it's too much for Fernando, he tries to flick it to the on side and the ball clips his pad and rolls to the stumps 141/10Extras16 (lb 3, w 13)TOTAL141 all out (19.3 Overs, RR: 7.23)Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Upul Tharanga, 3.2 ov), 2-61 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5.3 ov), 3-87 (Kumar Sangakkara, 9.2 ov), 4-119 (Angelo Mathews, 15.2 ov), 5-133 (Chamara Silva, 17.4 ov), 6-138 (Dinesh Chandimal, 18.2 ov), 7-139 (Thisara Perera, 18.4 ov), 8-140 (Lasith Malinga, 18.6 ov), 9-141 (Dilruwan Perera, 19.2 ov), 10-141 (Dilhara Fernando, 19.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Umar Gul 2.3 0 16 2 6.40 11 2 0 4 0 Sohail Tanvir 2 0 29 0 14.50 3 3 0 4 0 Aizaz Cheema 4 0 30 4 7.50 6 4 0 0 0 Saeed Ajmal 4 0 22 1 5.50 11 2 0 0 0 Shahid Afridi 4 0 21 0 5.25 4 0 0 1 0 Mohammad Hafeez 3 0 20 1 6.66 3 1 0 0 0
25/11Result
Only T20I (N), Sri Lanka tour of United Arab Emirates at Abu Dhabi, Nov 25 2011
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142/5 (19.3/20 ov)
Player of the Match
25/11Result
Only T20I (N), Sri Lanka tour of United Arab Emirates at Abu Dhabi, Nov 25 2011
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142/5 (19.3/20 ov)
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR3.6 Perera appeals full throttle this time for a lbw and he gets his man! Nips back in sharply from outside off and traps him at the crease, Hafeez seems unhappy and appears to show his bat, or was it off his follow through, I'm not sure 31/15.3 soft dismissal there! Farhat stayed at the crease and tried to loft him downtown over long-on, didn't get the distance and Perara took the catch several yards in front of the rope 36/214.5 the most bizarre dismissal of the day so far! Shafiq makes room to hoick him over the on side, doesn't pick the slower ball, the ball hits his body and dribbles back towards the stumps, Shafiq has no clue where the ball is, looks back to see the off bail on the pitch 90/46.3 not too sure what he was trying to do! He gave himself room but played all around it and lost his leg stump, now the game is wide open 44/318.6 is there a twist here? Fernando pitches it up and Afridi makes room and goes for the slog again, gets a thin outside edge and Sangakkara laps it up. It's amazing how the sound of that edge overshadowed the din here at the stadium 133/5Extras5 (w 5)TOTAL142/5 (19.3 Overs, RR: 7.28)Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Mohammad Hafeez, 3.6 ov), 2-36 (Imran Farhat, 5.3 ov), 3-44 (Umar Akmal, 6.3 ov), 4-90 (Asad Shafiq, 14.5 ov), 5-133 (Shahid Afridi, 18.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SL Malinga 3.3 0 32 1 9.14 7 3 0 1 0 NLTC Perera 4 0 26 1 6.50 10 2 0 2 0 CRD Fernando 4 0 36 1 9.00 12 4 2 0 0 BAW Mendis 3 0 20 1 6.66 7 2 0 1 0 TM Dilshan 2 0 8 1 4.00 5 0 0 0 0 MDK Perera 3 0 20 0 6.66 6 0 1 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Sri Lanka , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Pakistan won the one-off match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.20, Interval 21.20-21.40, Second Session 21.40-23.00
Match days
25 November 2011 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 63 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sri Lanka: 50 runs in 4.4 overs (28 balls), Extras 11
- Sri Lanka: 100 runs in 11.5 overs (71 balls), Extras 12
- LD Chandimal: 50 off 40 balls (5 x 4)
- Innings Break: Sri Lanka - 141/10 in 19.3 overs (BAW Mendis 0)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 41 runs, 2 wickets)
- Pakistan: 50 runs in 7.5 overs (47 balls), Extras 0
- Pakistan: 100 runs in 16.1 overs (97 balls), Extras 4
Match Coverage
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