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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, Sunday (AFP) Pakistan took advantage of Sri Lanka's reckless batting to bowl their rivals out for 173 in 44.2 overs in the Champions Trophy one-day final here on Sunday.

Tearaway Shoaib Akhtar and captain Waqar Younis led the Pakistani assault with three wickets each, while Wasim Akram and Shahid Afridi picked up two apiece.

The top four Sri Lankan batsmen gifted their wickets by attempting to cut balls outside the off-stump, negating the advantage of winning the toss and batting first on the good wicket.

Wicket-keeper Rashid Latif gloved four catches as Pakistan were set a moderate target of 4.5 runs an over to bag the 120,000-dollar title.

Russel Arnold top-scored for Sri Lanka with 47 off 51 balls, but his promising knock was cut short by South African umpire Rudi Koertzen, who declared him leg-before off Akram even though the ball appeared to be going down the leg-side.

Chamara Silva, who put on 40 with Arnold, also had reason to feel peeved after being given out leg-before by George Sharp of England.

But the rest of the Sri Lankan batting had themselves to blame for the poor total.

Pakistan's seasoned new ball attack of Akram and Waqar removed Marvan Atapattu and Avishka Gunawardena cheaply to reduce Sri Lanka to 21-2 in the ninth over.

Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardena put on 58 for the third wicket, but undid the good work by throwing away their wickets with rash shots.

Jayasuriya, who made 34, edged a slash outside the off-stump against Afridi to be caught behind, one ball after flicking his fifth boundary to the fine-leg fence.

Jaywardena, who began by hooking Shoaib Akhtar for six, fell to the same bowler for 43, nibbling at a ball pitched outside the off-stump that would have been called a wide.

Kumar Sangakkara too did not learn from Jayasuriya's dismissal, trying to cut Afridi, only to see the edge land in Latif's safe gloves.

SRI LANKA

S. Jayasuriya c Rashid Latif b Shahid Afridi	34
A. Gunawardene c Azhar Mahmood b Waqar Younis	 2
M. Atapattu c Rashid Latif b Wasim Akram	0
M. Jayawardene c Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar	43
R. Arnold lbw b Wasim Akram			47
K. Sangakkara c Rashid Latif b Shahid Afridi	 3
C. Silva lbw b Shoaib Akhtar			10
C. Vaas not out					10
C. Buddika lbw b Waqar Younis			 3
M. Muralitharan c Naved Latif b Shoaib Akhtar	 3
P. Nissanka b Waqar Younis			 2
Extras (LB-4, W-9, NB-3)			16
TOTAL (all out, 44.2 overs)			173
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-9, 2-21, 3-79, 4-102, 5-112, 
6-152, 7-156, 8-161, 9-164.
BOWLING: Wasim Akrkam 8-0-20-2 (W-4), 
Waqar Younis 8.2-1-31-3 (W-1), 
Shoaib Akhtar 8-0-33-3 (NB-2, W-1), 
Abdur Razzaq 5-0-20-0 (W-1), 
Shahid Afridi 10-2-45-2 (NB-1, W-1), 
Azhar Mahmood 5-0-20-0 (W-1).

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