Kapugedera steers Sri Lanka to six wicket win
CRICKET: Chamara Kapugedera and Thilan Samaraweera steered Sri Lanka
to a 6 wicket win to take a 2\0 win in their five match limited overs
cricket series at the Rangiri Dambulu International Cricket Stadium
yesterday.
The Sri Lankans chasing a victory target of 169 runs to win achieved
their objective with 6 wickets in hand in 43.4 overs as Kapugedera was
unbeaten 67 facing 97 balls with eight fours and a six and Samaraweera
unbeaten 38 facing 69 deliveries with two boundaries.
Pakistan were sent into bat were restricted for 168. Only skipper
Younus Khan (23) and Aameer Khan (24). Left arm paceman Thilan Thushara
had the best figures of 3 for 33 while Muralidharan took 2 for 41.
Chamara Kapugedera for his fine batting performance was declared as
the Man of the Match.
Thilan Thushara and Muttiah Muralitharan shared five wickets as Sri
Lanka bowled out Pakistan for 168 runs in the second one-day
international at Dambulla yesterday.
Pakistan, sent in to bat by Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara in
overcast conditions, never recovered after losing a wicket off the first
ball of the match and were bundled out in 47 overs.
The 26 extras sent down by the Sri Lankan bowlers, including 18 wides,
were the highest contributor in Pakistan's dismal batting at the Rangiri
International Stadium.
The tourists were reduced to 128-9 before the last pair of Mohammad
Aamer (24) and Saeed Ajmal (16) gave the top order a batting lesson by
adding 40 runs.
Pakistan captain Younus Khan, who made 23, was the only other batsman
to pass 20 as left-arm seamer Thushara finished with 3-33 and
off-spinner Muralitharan claimed 2-41.
Sri Lanka need less than four runs an over to take a 2-0 lead in the
five-match series after winning Thursday's opening match at the same
venue by 36 runs.
Pakistan's gamble to play two 19-year-olds, Nasir Jamshed and Umar
Akmal, in place of senior batsmen Mohammad Yousuf and Misbah-ul Haq did
not pay off.
Opener Jamshed was dismissed off the first ball of the innings when
he chased a wide ball from Nuwan Kulasekera into the safe hands of
Mahela Jayawardene at second slip. Debutant Umar, younger brother of the
team's wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, made a promising 18 during a
fourth-wicket stand of 32 with Younus when he was caught behind off
Angelo Mathews.
But even the experienced batsmen failed to negotiate the spot-on Sri
Lankan attack.
Former captain Shoaib Malik was trapped leg-before by Thushara before
he had scored and Shahid Afridi threw away his wicket with a wild slog
off Muralitharan that was skied to deep mid-wicket.
Pakistan were struggling at 87-7 before Abdul Razzaq (17) and Umar
Gul (14) put on 38 for the eighth wicket to lift the total past the
100-run mark.
PAKISTAN
Nasir Jamshed c Jayawardene b Kulasekera 00
Kamran Akmal c Samaraweera b Thushara 13
Younus Khan c Kapugedera b Muralitharan 23
Shoaib Malik lbw b Thushara 00
Umar Akmal c Sangakkara b Mathews 18
Fawad Alam c Sangakkara b Thushara 10
Shahid Afridi c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan 07
Abdul Razzaq c Thushara b Jayasuriya 17
Umar Gul run out 14
Mohammad Aamer not out 24
Saeed Ajmal run out 16
Extras (b4, lb4, w18) 26
TOTAL (all out, 47 overs) 168
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-0 (Jamshed), 2-21 (Kamran Akmal), 3-21 (Malik), 4-53 (Umar Akmal),
5-67 (Alam), 6-78 (Younus), 7-87 (Afri di), 8-125 (Gul), 9-128 (Razzaq), 10-168 (Ajmal).
BOWLING: Kulasekera 8-2-17-1, Malinga 10-0-37-0 (w7), Thushara 9-2-33-3 (w6),
Mathews 7-1-15-1, Muralitharan 10-0-41-2 (w4), Jayasuriya 3-0-17-1 (w1).
SRI LANKA INNINGS
WU Tharanga c Nasir Jamshed b Mohammad Aamer 10
ST Jayasuriya c Umar Akmal b Abdul Razzaq 30
KC Sangakkara run out (Younis Khan) 02
DPMD Jayawardene c Younis Khan b Shahid Afridi 12
CK Kapugedera not out 67
TT Samaraweera not out 38
Extras (b 2, lb 4, w 2, nb 2) 10
TOTAL (4 wickets; 43.4 overs; 185 mins) 169
DID NOT BAT: AD Mathews, T Thushara, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, M
Muralitharan.
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-23 (Tharanga, 4.4 ov), 2-44 (Sangakkara, 10.4 ov),
3-44 (Jayasuriya, 10.6 ov), 4-74 (Jayawardene, 22.3 ov).
BOWLING: Mohammad Aamer 9.4-2-31-1, Abdul Razzaq 10-1-35-1, Umar Gul 8-0-30-0,
Shahid Afridi 8-0-39-1, Saeed Ajmal 6-0-21-0, Shoaib Malik 2-0-7-0. |
