Pakistan sign off fairytale finish
Sri Lankans tantalized then go back empty handed as
Malinga flops again:
Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by one wicket in the second and final
Twenty20 International at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday to
win the series 2-0 as home team skipper Lasith Malinga ended with yet
another miserable performance.
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Shahid Afridi cuts a ball to the boundary as he set the
course
for Pakistan’s win Pic: by Susantha Wijegunasekera |
The result ended a dream tour by Pakistan in which they also won the
Test series 2-1 and the ODI series 3-2.
Chasing Sri Lanka’s 172 for 7, Pakistan recovered from 40-5 in the
eighth over to surpass the target with four deliveries to spare as
tailender Imad Wasim clouted paceman Binura Fernando for a six over
long-on to seal the result.
Pakistan won the first match by 29 runs on Thursday, had earlier
clinched both the Test and the one-day series on their six-week tour of
Sri Lanka.
Aggressive batting by debutant Shehan Jayasuriya and Chamara
Kapugedera lifted Sri Lanka to 172-7 in the second and final Twenty20
international.
Jayasuriya, a 23-year-old left-hander unrelated to Sri Lanka’s former
captain Sanath Jayasuriya, smashed three fours and two sixes in his
32-ball 40 before he was fifth out.
But it was Kapugedera who boosted the total with an unbeaten 48 off
25 balls that contained four sixes and two boundaries.
Kapugedera put on 55 for the sixth wicket with Milinda Siriwardana
(23) as the hosts plundered 59 runs in the final five overs.
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena was among a packed crowd of
35,000 at the Premadasa stadium to watch the action after home team
captain Lasith Malinga won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Kusal
Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan were removed by the fourth over with the
score at 32 before Jayasuriya and Dhananjaya de Silva (14) carried the
total to 61 without further loss.
Pakistan, won the first T20 match on Thursday and completed a
hat-trick of series wins on the current tour, having clinched the Tests
2-1 and the one-dayers 3-2.
Scoreboard
Sri Lanka innings
K. Perera b Malik 19
T. Dilshan c Hafeez b Anwar 10
S. Jayasuriya c Imad b Tanvir 40
D. de Silva b Afridi 14
T. Perera st Rizwan b Malik 01
M. Siriwardana c Mukhtar b Irfan 23
C. Kapugedera not out 48
D. Shanaka run out 07
Extras: (lb3, w7) 10
Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) 172
Fall of wickets: 1-24 (Dilshan), 2-32 (K. Perera)
3-61 (de Silva), 4-64 (T. Perera)
5-90 (Jayasuriya), 6-145 (Siriwardana)
7-172 (Shanaka)
Bowling: Anwar 4-0-40-1 (w1)
Tanvir 4-0-44-1 (w1)
Malik 3-0-16-2
Irfan 4-0-31-1
Afridi 4-0-30-1
Imad 1-0-8-0 (w5)
Pakistan innings ](target 173 runs)
M Ahmed c Kapugedara b Fernando 04
A Shehzad b Fernando 07
M Hafeez run out 11
S Malik st K Perera b Siriwardene 08
U Akmal run out 04
M Rizwan b T Perera 17
S Afridi b Jayasuriya 45
I Wasim not out 24
A Ali c K Perera b Malinga 46
S Tanvir run out 01
M Irfan not out 01
Extras (lb 1, w 5) 06
TOTAL (9 wickets; 19.2 overs) 174
Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Shehzad, 2.2 ov), 2-16 (Ahmed, 2.5 ov)
3-33 (Hafeez, 5.3 ov), 4-40 (Akmal 6.5 ov)
5-40 (Malik, 7.2 ov), 6-101 (Rizwan, 13.3 ov)
7-107 (Afridi, 14.1 ov), 8-165 (Ali, 18.4 ov)
9-167 (Tanvir, 18.6 ov)
Bowling: Fernando 3.2-0-33-2
Jayasuriya 4-0-37-1
T Perera 4-0-27-1
Siriwardene 2-0-17-1
Vandersay 2-0-19-0
Malinga 4-0-40-1 |
