Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan - Highlights - 2nd T20 - 3rd June 2012

Scorecard : Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 2nd Twenty20 : 3 June 2012.

Match : Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd of two T20 series on Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka 2012.
Venue/Date : Mahinda Rajapaksa international stadium in Hambantota.. 3 June 2012.
Debut : none.
Toss : Pakistan, elected to bat.
Result : Pakistan won by 23 runs and leveled the series as Sri Lanka won 1st T20 by 37 runs.
Man of the match : Shahid Afridi.
Umpires : Ranmore Martinez + Ruchira Palliyaguruge (both from Sri Lanka).

Head to head

9th Sri Lanka v Pakistan T20 match it was and now Pakistan won 6 while Sri Lanka fall behind with just 3 victories..

Match summary

You may view it as a battle of two rookie captains or both teams trying out bench strength with World T20 coming up but honestly, it was a low scoring no thriller that Shahid Afridi sealed for Pakistan with an allround show to level the series.. Having won the toss, visitors had elected to bowl first in previous game but found out batting got tougher going forwards and hence, today Mohammad Hafeez, did the opposite. Skipper himself battled for a while but three of his mates departed inside first 8 over and then Hafeez was out in the 11th over. In dire straits, Shahid Afridi joined Shoaib Mallik and counter attacked his way to a half century to give Pakistani bowlers a run a ball target.

Sri Lankans experimented with their top order but none of their batsmen showed the patience or the skill against potent Pakistani bowling. No batsmen reached twenties and visitors got through to a comfortable win at the end.

This was Mohammad Hafeez' first win as Pakistan captain, in his second game while Angelo Mathews lead Sri Lanka for the first time.

Pakistan innings (elected to bat)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Mohammad Hafeez	c Thirimanne b Lokurachchi	24	34	3	0
Ahmed Shehzad	lbw b Kulasekara	6	6	1	0
Khalid Latif	run out (Perera)	1	6	0	0
Umar Akmal	lbw b Lokurachchi	5	12	0	0
Shoaib Mallik	c Dilshan b Perera	27	26	3	0
Shahid Afridi	not out	52	33	5	1
Yasir Arafat	c Dilshan b Kulasekara	2	3	0	0
Sohail Tanvir	not out	0	0	0	0
Shakeel Ansar
Saeed Ajmal
Mohammad Sami
Extra :	5 (byes=2, lbye=1, wides=2)
Total :	122 runs in 20 overs for 6 wicket. RR = ( 6.10 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-11 (Shehzad, 2.1 ov), 2-18 (Latif, 4.6 ov), 3-29 (Akmal, 8.1 ov), 4-41 (Hafeez, 10.1 ov), 5-109 (Malik, 18.3 ov), 6-119 (Arafat, 19.3 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Nuwan Kulasekara	4	1	13	2	1 wide
Angelo Mathews	2	0	9	0
Thisara Perera	4	0	31	1
Isuru Udana	4	1	18	0
Kaushal Lokuarachchi	4	0	31	2	1 wide
Sachithra Senanayake	2	0	17	0

Sri Lanka innings (target = 123 from 20 overs)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Kumar Sangakkara	c Malik b Arafat	8	9	1	0
Tillakaratne Dilshan	b Afridi	18	21	4	0
Nuwan Kulasekara	c Malik b Arafat	0	4	0	0
Chamara Kapugedara	b Afridi	19	23	2	1
Dinesh Chamdimal	b Tanvir	12	18	0	0
Lahiru Thirimanne	c Ansar b Sami	18	19	2	0
Angelo Mathews	c Afridi b Arafat	11	11	0	0
Thisara Perera	b Sami	0	2	0	0
Kaushal Lokuarachchi	st Ansar b Ajmal	0	3	0	0
Sachithra Senanayake	c Tanvir b Sami	1	4	0	0
Isuru Udana	not out	1	2	0	0
Extra :	11 (lbyes=2, wides=9)
Total :	99 runs in 19.2 overs for 10 wickets. RR = ( 5.12 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-19 (Sangakkara, 3.2 ov), 2-19 (Kulasekara, 3.6 ov), 3-39 (Dilshan, 7.5 ov), 4-62 (Kapugedera, 11.3 ov), 5-76 (Chandimal, 14.5 ov), 6-85 (Thirimanne, 16.2 ov), 7-90 (Perera, 16.4 ov), 8-91 (Lokuarachchi, 17.2 ov), 9-94 (Senanayake, 18.2 ov), 10-99 (Mathews, 19.2 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Sohail Tanvir	4	0	15	1	1 wide
Yasir Arafat	3.2	0	18	3	2 wides
Mohammad Sami	3	0	16	3	2 wides
Shahid Afridi	4	0	17	2
Saeed Ajmal	4	0	20	1
Mohammad Hafeez	1	0	11	0