Lanka lose to Pakistan
CRICKET: A fine opening stand of 94 runs between Salman Butt
and Mohammad Hafeez guided Pakistan to a five wicket victory against Sri
Lanka in their Twenty20 warm up match played at Centurion yesterday.
Butt hit a top score of 51 and Hafeez made 45 as Pakistan reached
their target of 163 runs with more than an over to spare. Sri Lanka
after been put into bat were off to a flying start with Sanath
Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga adding 45 runs in five overs.
Sri Lanka however lost their way a bit at 80 for 4 before Jehan
Mubarak revived the innings sharing stands of 36 and 41 with Kumar
Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan respectively.
Sri Lanka’s first match in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup tournament will
be against Kenya on September 14. SRI LANKA INNINGS
WU Tharanga c Shahid Afridi b M Asif 30
ST Jayasuriya lbw b Mohammad Hafeez 27
MDK Perera c Younis Khan b Iftikhar Anjum 8
KC Sangakkara c Misbah-ul-Haq b Y Arafat 18
LPC Silva st Kamran Akmal b M Hafeez 3
J Mubarak run out (Umar Gul) 42
TM Dilshan run out (Kamran Akmal) 23
MF Maharoof not out 1
EXTRAS (lb 4, w 5, nb 1) 10
TOTAL (7 wickets; 20 overs) 162
Did not bat DPMD Jayawardene, WPUJC Vaas, G Wijekoon,
SL Malinga, KHRK Fernando, CRD Fernando, KS Lokuarachchi
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-45, 2-63, 3-77, 4-80, 5-116, 6-157, 7-162
Bowling: Mohammad Asif 4-0-33-1 (2w), Umar Gul 4-0-28-0 (1w),
Mohammad Hafeez 4-0-18-2, Iftikhar Anjum 3-0-29-1 (1nb, 1w),
Yasir Arafat 3-0-27-1 (1w), Shahid Afridi 2-0-23-0.
PAKISTAN INNINGS
Salman Butt b Perera 51
M. Hafeez c Sangakkara b Wijekoon 45
Younis Khan lbw b Jayasuriya 15
Shoaib Malik not out 34
S Afridi c Jayawardene b CRD Fernando 7
Kamran Akmal c Malinga b CRD Fernando 2
Misbah-ul-Haq not out 2
EXTRAS (b 1, w 6) 7
TOTAL (5 wickets; 18.5 overs) 163
Did not bat: Iftikhar Anjum, Umar Gul, Yasir Arafat,
Mohammad Asif, Abdur Rehman, Fawad Alam, Imran Nazir
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-94, 2-108, 3-120, 4-131, 5-149
Bowling: CRD Fernando 4-0-33-2 (5w), MF Maharoof 3-0-31-0,
SL Malinga 3.5-0-38-0 (1w), KHRK Fernando 1-0-16-0,
MDK Perera 2-0-16-1, G Wijekoon 3-0-20-1, ST Jayasuriya 2-0-8-1. |
