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Saturday, November 26, 2011
SRILANKAN tour ends with another defeat ..
Sri Lanka head home with just one win to show for their nine-match tour of the United Arab Emirates after Pakistan trumped them by five wickets in Friday's one-off Twenty20 International at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.Having lost the Test series one-nil
and the five-game ODI affair four-zero, Tillakaratne Dilshan's men were desperate for some consolation in the shortest format of the international game. It was not to be.
Victorious at the toss of the coin, Dilshan saw to it that his side were off to a flying start as he and Upul Tharanga pummeled 30 runs across the first three overs of the match. With the precedent set, however, the follow-through was abysmal.
30 without loss suggested a score in excess of 160 in slowish conditions, but Pakistan's spinners and Man of the Match Aizaz Cheema begged to differ.
While Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal shackled in the run-rate, seamer Cheema cashed in on the pressure for figures of four for 30 - three of his victims in the final over of the innings. Dinesh Chandimal held the frail Sri Lankan order together with a brisk knock of 56, but Dilshan's 28, Tharanga's 12 and Angelo Mathews' 14 had really promised better and the opposition's pursuit was never really in danger of falling short.
In reply, Pakistan were in relatively early trouble at 44 for three. Asad Shafiq, though, displayed a cool, calm and collected approach en route to a steadying vigil of 33 which laid the ideal platform for Misbah-ul-Haq.
Misbah, with Shahid Afridi's typically cavalier showing of 22 from 15 balls along for the ride, carried his side to victory with three balls to spare in the quintessential example of a captain's knock. The right-hander deployed, no frills, no fuss, just good value cricket for his 48 not out to ensure that an oft-brash batting order did not lose its collective head in the face of impending victory.
Pakistan now head to Bangladesh for a one-off T20I, three ODIs and two Tests, while Sri Lanka must promptly pick up their pieces in preparation of their tour of South Africa.Pakistan v Sri Lanka T20I Match
Pakistan v Sri Lanka
Pakistan won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)
- T20I no. 215 | 2011/12 season
- Played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi (neutral venue)
- 25 November 2011 - day/night (20-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
 | WU Tharanga | b Aizaz Cheema | 12 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 92.30 | |
| TM Dilshan* | c Misbah-ul-Haq b Saeed Ajmal | 28 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 186.66 | |
| LD Chandimal | lbw b Aizaz Cheema | 56 | 44 | 6 | 0 | 127.27 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | c & b Mohammad Hafeez | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| AD Mathews | run out (Misbah-ul-Haq) | 14 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| LPC Silva | run out (Saeed Ajmal/†Umar Akmal) | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| NLTC Perera | c †Umar Akmal b Aizaz Cheema | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SL Malinga | b Aizaz Cheema | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MDK Perera | c Misbah-ul-Haq b Umar Gul | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| BAW Mendis | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| CRD Fernando | b Umar Gul | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 13) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 19.3 overs) | 141 | (7.23 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-30 (Tharanga, 3.2 ov), 2-61 (Dilshan, 5.3 ov), 3-87 (Sangakkara, 9.2 ov), 4-119 (Mathews, 15.2 ov),5-133 (Silva, 17.4 ov), 6-138 (Chandimal, 18.2 ov), 7-139 (NLTC Perera, 18.4 ov), 8-140 (Malinga, 18.6 ov),9-141 (MDK Perera, 19.2 ov), 10-141 (Fernando, 19.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Umar Gul | 2.3 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 6.40 | (4w) | |
| Sohail Tanvir | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 14.50 | (4w) | ||
| Aizaz Cheema | 4 | 0 | 30 | 4 | 7.50 | ||
| Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5.50 | ||
| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5.25 | (1w) | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 |
| Pakistan innings (target: 142 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | lbw b NLTC Perera | 13 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 92.85 | |
| Imran Farhat | c NLTC Perera b Mendis | 19 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 126.66 | |
| Asad Shafiq | b Malinga | 33 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Umar Akmal† | b Dilshan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Misbah-ul-Haq* | not out | 48 | 38 | 3 | 1 | 126.31 | ||
| Shahid Afridi | c †Sangakkara b Fernando | 22 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 146.66 | |
| Shoaib Malik | not out | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 200.00 | ||
| Extras | (w 5) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 19.3 overs) | 142 | (7.28 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Gul, Aizaz Cheema |
| Fall of wickets1-31 (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 | |||
| SL Malinga | 3.3 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 9.14 | (1w) | |
| NLTC Perera | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 6.50 | (2w) | |
| CRD Fernando | 4 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 9.00 | ||
| BAW Mendis | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 | (1w) | |
| TM Dilshan | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 | ||
| MDK Perera | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 6.66 |
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series Pakistan won the one-off match |
| Player of the match Aizaz Cheema (Pakistan) |
| Umpires Ahsan Raza (Pakistan) and Zameer Haider (Pakistan) TV umpire Shozab Raza (Pakistan) Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire Iftikhar Ali |
| Match notes |
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