Pathum Nissanka shone with a powerful knock of unbeaten 55 off 48 to steer Sri Lanka towards a comfortable win over Pakistan by five wickets in Asia Cup Super Four stage encounter
SL 124/5 (17 Over)
16.2: Shanaka gone. Slower ball does the trick and once again two Pakistan fielders nearly collide while taking a catch.
Hasnain to bowl his third over
SL 107/4 (16 Over)
Hasan Ali back into attack
SL 103/4 (15 Over)
Haris Rauf replaces Nawaz
SL 92/4 (14 Over)
Usman Qadir continues to bowl his last over
SL 87/4 (13 Over)
Nawaz to bowl his final over
SL 83/4 (12 Over)
11.3: Bhanuka Rajapaksa gone. The wristspinner breaks the 51-run partnership. Tosses it up, just outside off. Rajapaksa tries the slog sweep against the googly, but he’s only got the elevation.
Usman Qadir continues
SL 73/3 (11 Over)
Nawaz continues with his third
SL 68/3 (10 Over)
Usman continues
SL 57/3 (9 Over)
Nawaz continues
SL 53/3 (8 Over)
Usman Qadir joins Nawaz from the other end
SL 45/3 (7 Over)
Nawaz comes into attack
SL 37/3 (6 Over)
Hasan Ali continues
SL 29/3 (5 Over)
4.6: Good length ball angling into middle stump and de Silva has to offer a shot before he expected it. Tries to punch it leg side but the ball hits the face of the bat and goes high up in the air for mid off to run in and take the catch. 147kph, de Silva was definitely surprised by how quickly it got to him
Haris Rauf to bowl his second
SL 22/2 (4 Over)
Hasan Ali comes into attack
SL 7/2 (3 Over)
Hasnain continues
SL 3/2 (2 Over)
1.2: Gunathilaka tried to set the tone by hitting a cut square, but the extra bounce induces the edge and Rizwan snaps this up! And he’s displayed some mega air time diving to his left
Haris Rauf to bowl from the other end
SL 2/1 (1 Over)
0.2: The aggressive Kusal Mendis pokes at a short-ish ball that was seaming away from him. Played away from his body, takes the edge, and it floats into the hands of first slip.
Mohammad Hasnain to open the bowling attack for Pakistan. Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis to open Sri Lankan batting
PAKISTAN VS SRI LANKA (2nd INNING)
Spinners wreaked havoc on Pakistan batting line as Sri Lanka restricted the Green Shirts to 121 in the first innings of the Asia Cup 2022 Super Four encounter
PAK 121/9 (19 Over)
18.5: Mohammad Nawaz run out. Goes back and across, pulls this to deep midwicket, and risks a second. Nawaz dives in, but he falls short. Lovely throw on the top of the stumps
Madushanka continues to bowl the second last over
PAK 110/8 (18 Over)
17.5: Qadir tries the big slog sweep here but this is an offbreak that turns away from him outside off, and he gets a massive top edge to deep midwicket
Theekshana to bowl his last over
PAK 102/7 (17 Over)
Madushanka back into the attack
PAK 95/7 (16 Over)
15.6: Hasan shuffles across to try the big sweep, but is nowhere near the pitch, gets a massive top edge to be caught at deep square leg
Theekshana comes back to bowl 16th
PAK 91/6 (15 Over)
14.6: Hasaranga castles Asif Ali. He has picked the wrong’un, looks to play Hasaranga out, but the ball doesn’t turn as much and beats his outside edge to hit the off stumps
14.5: Hasaranga strikes right back. He shortens the length this time, Iftikhar still tries the slog-sweep, and might have connected still, but the ball stays low and deflects off his pad onto the wicket
Hasaranga to bowl his last
PAK 84/4 (14 Over)
13.3: Khushdil skips down the wicket, but not quite to its pitch, and the ball turns too. Gets the toe end and skies it to long-on
Dhananjaya de Silva to bowl his final over
PAK 80/3 (13 Over)
Theekshana comes back to bowl his second
PAK 78/3 (12 Over)
Dhananjay de Silva back into the attack
PAK 74/3 (11 Over)
10.4: Babar sees the legbreak all right, goes down the track, swings across the line, but the ball just goes straight on to get him bowled
Hasaranga continues
PAK 66/2 (10 Over)
9.2: Fakhar picks the biggest part of the ground. Seems like a decent hit, and perhaps would have been six from the other end. Here he finds deep this, Hasaranga, who times his leap to perfection
Chamika Karunaratne to bowl his first
PAK 62/1 (9 Over)
Hasaranga continues
PAK 60/1 (8 Over)
Dhananjaya to bowl the 8th
PAK 53-1 (7 Over)
Hasaranga comes into attack
PAK 49-1 (6 Over)
Madushan continues
PAK 34-1 (5 Over)
Dhananjaya de Silva joins the attack
PAK 34-1 (4 Over)
3.3: First wicket for Madushan. Wide length ball, gets some swing away, Rizwan has had enough half-hits, he is going for the big one, but the swing undoes him. Starts off thinking he will go over mid-off, but the swing means he is dragging it. All he manages is a top edge to short fine leg
Pramodh Madushan comes into attack
PAK 25-0 (3 Over)
Madushanaka continues
PAK 19-0 (2 Over)
Maheesh Theekshana to bowl from the other end
PAK 11-0 (1 Over)
Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam come out to open for Pakistan, Madushanka to bowl first over
PAKISTAN VS SRI LANKA (1ST INNING)
DUBAI: Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field first against Pakistan in the Super Four stage encounter of Asia Cup 2022.
PLAYING XIs
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (C) , Danushka Gunathilaka, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Pramodh Madushan
HEAD TO HEAD
Matches-21, Pakistan-13, Sri Lanka-8
