Pakistan 184 (43 ov)

Canada 138 (42.5 ov)

Pakistan won by 46 runs

• ICC Cricket World Cup - 17th match, Group A
• ODI no. 3116 | 2010/11 season
• Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue)
• 3 March 2011 - day/night (50-over match)

	Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	Mohammad Hafeez	lbw b Osinde	11	12	2	0	91.66
	3.1 Given out and Hafeez goes for UDRS. LBW. It landed on a good length outside off stump and moved in to hit the pad above the knee roll in front of leg and middle stump. The height was in question. And would it have hit the leg stump? Hawk eye says it would have clipped the top of the leg stump. And that has been given out. 16/1
	Ahmed Shehzad	c Gordon b Baidwan	12	23	2	0	52.17
	8.5 123.2 kph, And he has imploded. The adrenalin was kicking in. He tries to heave this delivery on the up and over mid-on but couldn't clear. Gordon dived forward to take a good low catch. 42/2
	Kamran Akmal†	c Kumar b Rizwan Cheema	16	38	2	0	42.10
	15.3 67 for 4. The minnows are mincers. It was a short of length delivery and there was some width on it but Kamran cut it straight to backward point. The shot was on but the execution was poor. Kamran mutters to himself as he drags himself off the park. 67/4
	Younis Khan	lbw b Baidwan	6	13	1	0	46.15
	12.5 126.1 kph, Younis trapped lbw. He charges up to Kamran, has a chat, and asks for UDRS. It was a full delivery on the middle, tilting in towards middle and leg. Younis played all around it and would have lost the leg stump. Three down and wobbling. What a start this by Canada. 55/3
	Misbah-ul-Haq	c †Bagai b Balaji Rao	37	68	1	0	54.41
	38.2 84.2 kph, what have we here? Misbah is gone, but what a way to depart, it was going straight down the leg side, Misbah decided to have those fine tickles, but this time it was the finest of them, and settled into Bagai's gloves, lovely anticipation from the keeper 165/6
	Umar Akmal	lbw b Balaji Rao	48	68	4	1	70.58
	34.6 85.4 kph, that's gone, Balaji has his man after lots of effort, it was bowled shorter, flatter, Umar went on the back foot looking for the turn, there wasn't any, it hurried on after pitching to strike him in front of middle stump, there is no doubt about that one, what a time to strike, Umar was looking to up the rate 140/5
	Shahid Afridi*	c Kumar b Rizwan Cheema	20	17	2	0	117.64
	40.5 dear me, Afridi has given it away, not for the first time, not for the last, it was a wayward full toss wide outside off stump, Afridi reached out and went swinging wildly at it, and the chance was happily swallowed at backward point, Canada are delighted 181/7
	Abdul Razzaq	lbw b Hansra	8	8	1	0	100.00
	41.1 huge wicket, Hansra roars, tossed up on middle stump, Razzaq wanted to flick it from the crease, played all around it in the end, flicking across the line, that is dead plumb, Razzaq is a goner, two more to go, can Pakistan get past 200? 181/8
	Umar Gul	not out	2	4	0	0	50.00
	Wahab Riaz	c Balaji Rao b Hansra	0	3	0	0	0.00
	41.4 Balaji it is at slip, and he has somehow managed to hold on to this outside edge, between his legs, it was there for the drive, he went for the drive, the edge flew to Balaji who grabbed at it twice, but it was destined to settle between his thighs as he went down, remember Tariq Iqbal, the Kenya keeper 'catching' Brian Lara in the 1996 World Cup, it was that kind of 'catch' 181/9
	Saeed Ajmal	b Baidwan	0	5	0	0	0.00
	42.6 that will do, full and on the stumps, Canada's version of Malinga if you please, Ajmal plays all over it, and the ball thuds in to the off stump, Pakistan fall well short of 200 in the end 184/10
	Extras	(b 4, lb 3, w 16, nb 1)	24
	Total	(all out; 43 overs)	184	(4.27 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-16 (Mohammad Hafeez, 3.1 ov), 2-42 (Ahmed Shehzad, 8.5 ov), 3-55 (Younis Khan, 12.5 ov), 4-67 (Kamran Akmal, 15.3 ov), 5-140 (Umar Akmal, 34.6 ov), 6-165 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 38.2 ov), 7-181 (Shahid Afridi, 40.5 ov), 8-181 (Abdul Razzaq, 41.1 ov), 9-181 (Wahab Riaz, 41.4 ov), 10-184 (Saeed Ajmal, 42.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Khurram Chohan	3.3	0	10	0	2.85	(1nb)
	H Osinde	7	1	25	1	3.57	(5w)
	3.1 to Mohammad Hafeez, Given out and Hafeez goes for UDRS. LBW. It landed on a good length outside off stump and moved in to hit the pad above the knee roll in front of leg and middle stump. The height was in question. And would it have hit the leg stump? Hawk eye says it would have clipped the top of the leg stump. And that has been given out. 16/1
	TG Gordon	0.3	0	1	0	2.00	(1w)
	HS Baidwan	8	1	35	3	4.37	(2w)
	8.5 to Ahmed Shehzad, 123.2 kph, And he has imploded. The adrenalin was kicking in. He tries to heave this delivery on the up and over mid-on but couldn't clear. Gordon dived forward to take a good low catch. 42/2 12.5 to Younis Khan, 126.1 kph, Younis trapped lbw. He charges up to Kamran, has a chat, and asks for UDRS. It was a full delivery on the middle, tilting in towards middle and leg. Younis played all around it and would have lost the leg stump. Three down and wobbling. What a start this by Canada. 55/3 42.6 to Saeed Ajmal, that will do, full and on the stumps, Canada's version of Malinga if you please, Ajmal plays all over it, and the ball thuds in to the off stump, Pakistan fall well short of 200 in the end 184/10
	Rizwan Cheema	8	0	33	2	4.12	(3w)
	15.3 to Kamran Akmal, 67 for 4. The minnows are mincers. It was a short of length delivery and there was some width on it but Kamran cut it straight to backward point. The shot was on but the execution was poor. Kamran mutters to himself as he drags himself off the park. 67/4 40.5 to Shahid Afridi, dear me, Afridi has given it away, not for the first time, not for the last, it was a wayward full toss wide outside off stump, Afridi reached out and went swinging wildly at it, and the chance was happily swallowed at backward point, Canada are delighted 181/7
	WD Balaji Rao	10	0	50	2	5.00	(1w)
	34.6 to Umar Akmal, 85.4 kph, that's gone, Balaji has his man after lots of effort, it was bowled shorter, flatter, Umar went on the back foot looking for the turn, there wasn't any, it hurried on after pitching to strike him in front of middle stump, there is no doubt about that one, what a time to strike, Umar was looking to up the rate 140/5 38.2 to Misbah-ul-Haq, 84.2 kph, what have we here? Misbah is gone, but what a way to depart, it was going straight down the leg side, Misbah decided to have those fine tickles, but this time it was the finest of them, and settled into Bagai's gloves, lovely anticipation from the keeper 165/6
	AS Hansra	6	1	23	2	3.83
	41.1 to Abdul Razzaq, huge wicket, Hansra roars, tossed up on middle stump, Razzaq wanted to flick it from the crease, played all around it in the end, flicking across the line, that is dead plumb, Razzaq is a goner, two more to go, can Pakistan get past 200? 181/8 41.4 to Wahab Riaz, Balaji it is at slip, and he has somehow managed to hold on to this outside edge, between his legs, it was there for the drive, he went for the drive, the edge flew to Balaji who grabbed at it twice, but it was destined to settle between his thighs as he went down, remember Tariq Iqbal, the Kenya keeper 'catching' Brian Lara in the 1996 World Cup, it was that kind of 'catch' 181/9

	Canada innings (target: 185 runs from 50 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	R Gunasekera	lbw b Umar Gul	8	16	0	0	50.00
	3.6 Shout for lbw turned down. Will they go for UDRS? They don't.. hold on wait.. they go for it after considerable deliberations. It landed full in length on the leg and middle stump line. It landed in line and straightened to hit him in front. That's out and Harper gives it out. Guna was playing too much across the line and has paid for it now. As he walked away Guna, suggested that there was an inside edge. 16/1
	NR Kumar	b Abdul Razzaq	2	13	0	0	15.38
	4.5 106.1 kph, Clatter! Around 129 kmph delivery and it was the typical Razzaq dismissal. That one that has troubled the likes of SRT. It landed full in length just outside off and skidded towards middle and off line. Kumar went for a drive, and went slightly outside the line. It goes through the bat and pad gap. 16/2
	ZE Surkari	lbw b Saeed Ajmal	27	67	2	0	40.29
	33.3 loud shout for lbw The quick seam-up delivery. They go for another review as the umpire negates this one as well! It landed full in length on the leg stump line, moved across with the arm, hit the pad in front of the middle - the ball clipped the pad before it hit the bat - and it would have hit the off stump. Looks out. And the verdict is OUT. Harper has to reverse another decision. And Surkari trudges off in complete disappointment 104/4
	A Bagai*†	lbw b Shahid Afridi	16	35	2	0	45.71
	17.1 96.2 kph, loud appeal for lbw Harper turned it down. They go for the review. Looks plumb. It landed full on the middle stump line and it just about straightened enough to trap him in front. Harper reverses his decision. Bagai has to go. He drags himself off the park. Finally, it was that lbw that got him. It almost seemed inevitable that that's the way this was going to end. 44/3
	AS Hansra	b Shahid Afridi	43	75	4	1	57.33
	36.4 95.1 kph, Shahid Afridi has done it again. It was that typical drifting and skidding slider. It landed on a good length around off and hurried on towards the off stump. Hansra makes a mistake of trying to cut. He tries to bring the bat down in an hurry but the ball is quicker. The off stump is pegged back/. A very fine innings but it's over now. 114/6
	Rizwan Cheema	b Shahid Afridi	4	8	1	0	50.00
	34.6 84.5 kph, Clatter! What a lovely intelligent delivery. It was a lot slower than what Cheema anticipated. He was way too early into his attempted big heave-ho to the on side. The ball came on slowly and broke back in from outside off to gently hit the off stump. 111/5
	TG Gordon	c Wahab Riaz b Shahid Afridi	9	12	1	0	75.00
	38.4 80.1 kph, Afridi throws his head back and roars as he looks up to the sky. Wahab has taken a good catch in the end, after misjudging initially. It was the googly and Gordon skied the slog. Wahab came in from the deep, almost looked as if he would not take it as he stuttered as he came near the ball and then lunged out to take a good catch in the end. 130/8
	HS Baidwan	b Shahid Afridi	0	1	0	0	0.00
	36.5 What a quick ripper! It was the pacy seam-up delivery. Afridi the leggie had transformed into Afridi the pacer. It landed full in length and breached the defenses of a surprised Baidwan. He had no clue and hence, no chance to save his stumps. The ball rushed through the hurried poke, hit the pad and fell on the stumps. Pakistan fans would remember the dismissal of Greg Blewett (or was it Steve Waugh) 114/7
	Khurram Chohan	not out	5	20	0	0	25.00
	WD Balaji Rao	run out (Shahid Afridi)	1	7	0	0	14.28
	41.4 Umar Gul to Khurram Chohan, Balaji is run out Afridi is having some night here. Balaji had set off for a single but his partner wasn't keen. Balaji turned and saw that Afridi had the ball at mid-off. He gave up and just watched Afridi let rip a direct hit at the non striker's end 134/9
	H Osinde	b Wahab Riaz	0	3	0	0	0.00
	42.5 140.6 kph, Pakistan win by 46 runs. Full, straight and fast. The bat is late in coming down. Clatter! 138/10
	Extras	(lb 4, w 19)	23
	Total	(all out; 42.5 overs)	138	(3.22 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-16 (Gunasekera, 3.6 ov), 2-16 (Kumar, 4.5 ov), 3-44 (Bagai, 17.1 ov), 4-104 (Surkari, 33.3 ov), 5-111 (Rizwan Cheema, 34.6 ov), 6-114 (Hansra, 36.4 ov), 7-114 (Baidwan, 36.5 ov), 8-130 (Gordon, 38.4 ov), 9-134 (Balaji Rao, 41.4 ov), 10-138 (Osinde, 42.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Abdul Razzaq	7	2	16	1	2.28	(1w)
	4.5 to Kumar, 106.1 kph, Clatter! Around 129 kmph delivery and it was the typical Razzaq dismissal. That one that has troubled the likes of SRT. It landed full in length just outside off and skidded towards middle and off line. Kumar went for a drive, and went slightly outside the line. It goes through the bat and pad gap. 16/2
	Umar Gul	7	1	20	1	2.85	(4w)
	3.6 to Gunasekera, Shout for lbw turned down. Will they go for UDRS? They don't.. hold on wait.. they go for it after considerable deliberations. It landed full in length on the leg and middle stump line. It landed in line and straightened to hit him in front. That's out and Harper gives it out. Guna was playing too much across the line and has paid for it now. As he walked away Guna, suggested that there was an inside edge. 16/1
	Shahid Afridi	10	0	23	5	2.30	(3w)
	17.1 to Bagai, 96.2 kph, loud appeal for lbw Harper turned it down. They go for the review. Looks plumb. It landed full on the middle stump line and it just about straightened enough to trap him in front. Harper reverses his decision. Bagai has to go. He drags himself off the park. Finally, it was that lbw that got him. It almost seemed inevitable that that's the way this was going to end. 44/3 34.6 to Rizwan Cheema, 84.5 kph, Clatter! What a lovely intelligent delivery. It was a lot slower than what Cheema anticipated. He was way too early into his attempted big heave-ho to the on side. The ball came on slowly and broke back in from outside off to gently hit the off stump. 111/5 36.4 to Hansra, 95.1 kph, Shahid Afridi has done it again. It was that typical drifting and skidding slider. It landed on a good length around off and hurried on towards the off stump. Hansra makes a mistake of trying to cut. He tries to bring the bat down in an hurry but the ball is quicker. The off stump is pegged back/. A very fine innings but it's over now. 114/6 36.5 to Baidwan, What a quick ripper! It was the pacy seam-up delivery. Afridi the leggie had transformed into Afridi the pacer. It landed full in length and breached the defenses of a surprised Baidwan. He had no clue and hence, no chance to save his stumps. The ball rushed through the hurried poke, hit the pad and fell on the stumps. Pakistan fans would remember the dismissal of Greg Blewett (or was it Steve Waugh) 114/7 38.4 to Gordon, 80.1 kph, Afridi throws his head back and roars as he looks up to the sky. Wahab has taken a good catch in the end, after misjudging initially. It was the googly and Gordon skied the slog. Wahab came in from the deep, almost looked as if he would not take it as he stuttered as he came near the ball and then lunged out to take a good catch in the end. 130/8
	Wahab Riaz	5.5	0	23	1	3.94	(2w)
	42.5 to Osinde, 140.6 kph, Pakistan win by 46 runs. Full, straight and fast. The bat is late in coming down. Clatter! 138/10
	Saeed Ajmal	8	0	31	1	3.87	(3w)
	33.3 to Surkari, loud shout for lbw The quick seam-up delivery. They go for another review as the umpire negates this one as well! It landed full in length on the leg stump line, moved across with the arm, hit the pad in front of the middle - the ball clipped the pad before it hit the bat - and it would have hit the off stump. Looks out. And the verdict is OUT. Harper has to reverse another decision. And Surkari trudges off in complete disappointment 104/4
	Mohammad Hafeez	5	0	21	0	4.20

Match details

Yeah Pakistan Win Second World Cup match

 

Shahid Afridi's 4 for 34 helped Pakistan defend 277 in their match against Sri Lanka in Colombo....

 

ICC Cricket World Cup - 10th match, Group A

Sri Lanka v Pakistan

Pakistan won by 11 runs

• ODI no. 3109 | 2010/11 season
• Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
• 26 February 2011 - day/night (50-over match)

	Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Ahmed Shehzad	c †Sangakkara b Perera	13	24	23	2	0	56.52
	5.3 135.8 kph, got 'em! Shehzad had shown signs of impatience the previous delivery, and this time he was lured into a drive outside off stump, it was pitched on a length, and moved away slightly to produce the fatal edge, bounced a lot more than usual too, and Sanga doesn't let go of those 28/1
	Mohammad Hafeez	run out (Herath/Jayawardene/†Sangakkara)	32	63	31	4	1	103.22
	13.1 from Muralitharan, oh dear, is anyone out, who is out, what is happening, it was full on leg stump and swept to short fine leg, there was a terrible mix-up, Kamran ran all the way to Hafeez who did not move an inch, the throw came in to Sanga, there were two batsman there, so he threw to Murali, who would have had to be eight feet tall to take the wayward throw, but the ball was in the end relayed to Murali, Hafeez thought of running to Murali's end just for a fleeting moment, abandoned such foolish thoughts, and Murali finally got the bails off, it is Hafeez who has to walk back finally 76/2
	Kamran Akmal†	st †Sangakkara b Herath	39	68	48	5	0	81.25
	20.2 82.1 kph, Well, Pakistan have lost three wickets. Kamran has taken more than any of the Sri Lankan bowlers - two. After sending Hafeez back with his wily running, he's now accounted for himself with an inexplicable unremarkable charge down the track. He seemed to have decided long back that, no matter what, this had to go over long on. And so he proceeded - to run down the track like a bull that had seen a red rag. Herath just stuck to his guns, landed it on middle and got it to turn away, past Kamran's mad, mad swipe. Miss. He doesn't have much time to turn back. Sanga does the rest. He didn't even turn back. Just kept walking. Good idea too. Vintage Kamran. 105/3
	Younis Khan	c Jayawardene b Herath	72	108	76	4	0	94.73
	40.5 90.0 kph, Younis departs, well someone had to go for it now, he went for the sweep, got a top-edge that looped up tamely in the air for a catch to short fine leg, Herath has justified his selection ahead of Ajantha, Younis has set up a late charge from Pakistan 213/4
	Misbah-ul-Haq	not out	83	118	91	6	0	91.20
	Umar Akmal	c Dilshan b Muralitharan	10	21	15	1	0	66.66
	45.3 Umar goes, it was short, a rare one from Murali, in his eagerness to capitalise on the scarce offering, he pulled it in the air, got in a awkward position as he went through with the shot, and Dilshan took sharp diving chance at deep midwicket, Murali has suffocated Pakistan in the Powerplay 238/5
	Shahid Afridi*	c Dilshan b Mathews	16	18	12	3	0	133.33
	48.5 129.2 kph, backs away and goes for the upper cut to a short and wide delivery, but cannot get it over Dilshan at point, who goes high at it with outstretched hands, and pouches it cleanly 267/6
	Abdul Razzaq	c sub (CK Kapugedera) b Perera	3	6	4	0	0	75.00
	49.6 high full toss, Razzaq had to go for maximum, and did so, but his swing produced a top edge that swirled high in the air and settled in the hands of extra cover, Sri Lanka will feel that they have restrained a Pakistan line-up that threatened to gallop away, but couldn't quite do so 277/7
	Extras	(lb 4, w 5)	9
	Total	(7 wickets; 50 overs; 220 mins)	277	(5.54 runs per over)

Did not bat Umar Gul, Abdur Rehman, Shoaib Akhtar

Fall of wickets1-28 (Ahmed Shehzad, 5.3 ov), 2-76 (Mohammad Hafeez, 13.1 ov), 3-105 (Kamran Akmal, 20.2 ov), 4-213 (Younis Khan, 40.5 ov), 5-238 (Umar Akmal, 45.3 ov), 6-267 (Shahid Afridi, 48.5 ov), 7-277 (Abdul Razzaq, 49.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KMDN Kulasekara	10	1	64	0	6.40	(1w)
	NLTC Perera	9	0	62	2	6.88	(2w)
	5.3 to Ahmed Shehzad, 135.8 kph, got 'em! Shehzad had shown signs of impatience the previous delivery, and this time he was lured into a drive outside off stump, it was pitched on a length, and moved away slightly to produce the fatal edge, bounced a lot more than usual too, and Sanga doesn't let go of those 28/1 49.6 to Abdul Razzaq, high full toss, Razzaq had to go for maximum, and did so, but his swing produced a top edge that swirled high in the air and settled in the hands of extra cover, Sri Lanka will feel that they have restrained a Pakistan line-up that threatened to gallop away, but couldn't quite do so 277/7
	AD Mathews	10	0	56	1	5.60
	48.5 to Shahid Afridi, 129.2 kph, backs away and goes for the upper cut to a short and wide delivery, but cannot get it over Dilshan at point, who goes high at it with outstretched hands, and pouches it cleanly 267/6
	M Muralitharan	10	0	35	1	3.50	(2w)
	45.3 to Umar Akmal, Umar goes, it was short, a rare one from Murali, in his eagerness to capitalise on the scarce offering, he pulled it in the air, got in a awkward position as he went through with the shot, and Dilshan took sharp diving chance at deep midwicket, Murali has suffocated Pakistan in the Powerplay 238/5
	HMRKB Herath	10	0	46	2	4.60
	20.2 to Kamran Akmal, 82.1 kph, Well, Pakistan have lost three wickets. Kamran has taken more than any of the Sri Lankan bowlers - two. After sending Hafeez back with his wily running, he's now accounted for himself with an inexplicable unremarkable charge down the track. He seemed to have decided long back that, no matter what, this had to go over long on. And so he proceeded - to run down the track like a bull that had seen a red rag. Herath just stuck to his guns, landed it on middle and got it to turn away, past Kamran's mad, mad swipe. Miss. He doesn't have much time to turn back. Sanga does the rest. He didn't even turn back. Just kept walking. Good idea too. Vintage Kamran. 105/3 40.5 to Younis Khan, 90.0 kph, Younis departs, well someone had to go for it now, he went for the sweep, got a top-edge that looped up tamely in the air for a catch to short fine leg, Herath has justified his selection ahead of Ajantha, Younis has set up a late charge from Pakistan 213/4
	TM Dilshan	1	0	10	0	10.00

	Sri Lanka innings (target: 278 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	WU Tharanga	c Shahid Afridi b Mohammad Hafeez	33	64	43	6	0	76.74
	14.2 89.0 kph, well, I take that back. Hafeez has nailed Tharanga. As mentioned earlier, there is an army of green shirts inside the circle on the off side. Tossed up outside on leg, Tharanga drives on the up, and picks out Afridi at mid-off. He's thrilled after pouching the catch, tumbling forward. The game is back in the balance after Sri Lanka's recovery of sorts. 76/1
	TM Dilshan	b Shahid Afridi	41	81	55	5	0	74.54
	17.3 86.9 kph, boom booom strikes, it was too close for the cut, it was the one that went straight on, it was the one that kept low too, a deadly combination for Dilshan, who still went for the shot, and dinked it on to his stumps, Afridi stands mid-pitch with arms outstretched, has Pakistan's saviour arrived? 88/2
	KC Sangakkara*†	c Ahmed Shehzad b Shahid Afridi	49	109	61	2	1	80.32
	37.4 87.4 kph, Captain strikes. Captain falls. How much of a contribution did Gul have to this dismissal? Sanga skips out of the crease. Afridi sees him and drops it short outside off. Sanga still wants to go over the top, so stops his initial shot and tries to cross-bat it over long on. Too ambitious. Shehzad runs in, tumbles forward and pouches. Finally someone doesn't let a stumping or a catch go. 169/5
	DPMD Jayawardene	b Shoaib Akhtar	2	12	10	0	0	20.00
	20.2 138.0 kph, the Rawalpindi Express is chugging in at full steam, and has broken through the defences of Mahela, lovely delivery, pacy, on a length and cutting in, Mahela drove outside the line, and the middle stump was pegged back, Shoaib first does the aeroplane thing, then points to himself as if to say 'I told you' 95/3
	TT Samaraweera	st †Kamran Akmal b Shahid Afridi	1	6	4	0	0	25.00
	21.2 88.6 kph, Shahid does the rope trick on Thilan, flights this one on middle, gets Thilan forward, and out of the crease, gets the ball to turn as well, Kamran does not mess up the take behind the stumps, in fact Thilan's foot is just out of the crease when Kamran takes off the bails, Shahid Afridi is one short of 300 ODI wickets 96/4
	LPC Silva	st †Kamran Akmal b Abdur Rehman	57	115	78	5	0	73.07
	46.1 90.0 kph, Silva's vigil ends. Rehman can't believe it. Kamran's actually effected a stumping off his bowling. Silva dawdles out of the crease, he looks for the heave. Rehman smartly gets it to drift away from him, and gets it past his stretched swipe. Kamran collects and breaks the stumps. Even he looks sheepish. 233/8
	AD Mathews	c Ahmed Shehzad b Shahid Afridi	18	24	20	2	0	90.00
	43.4 Angelo is gone. Afridi has four. Shehzad has another catch. Angelo skips out of the crease, and Afridi sees him. He holds the length back and gets it to turn away. Angelo is forced to go with the shot and tries to cross-bat swipe it over long off. Mistimed, and it carries straight to Shehzad. Almost cleared the ropes, but not quite. 209/6
	NLTC Perera	b Shoaib Akhtar	8	14	6	1	0	133.33
	45.5 Shoaib Akhtar - rearranging stumps and landing like an aeroplane since 1997. What a legend. Thisara is gone. He finds out the hard way, than you can't set yourself up for pre-meditated slogs against the world's fastest. He moves the front foot away and looks to heave. Shoaib fires it full and fast, and removes the timber. Get ready for landing folks. 232/7
	KMDN Kulasekara	c Umar Akmal b Umar Gul	24	21	14	2	1	171.42
	49.5 Gul has a wicket and Kula's free-scoring surge has come to an end. Not a yorker this time, it was a low full toss on leg stump and Kula couldn't get as much muscle under it as he would have wanted. Still went through with the shot, backing away and looking to launch it over long on. He found the fielder. 265/9
	HMRKB Herath	not out	4	20	10	0	0	40.00
	M Muralitharan	not out	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 10, w 16, nb 2)	29
	Total	(9 wickets; 50 overs; 238 mins)	266	(5.32 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-76 (Tharanga, 14.2 ov), 2-88 (Dilshan, 17.3 ov), 3-95 (Jayawardene, 20.2 ov), 4-96 (Samaraweera, 21.2 ov), 5-169 (Sangakkara, 37.4 ov), 6-209 (Mathews, 43.4 ov), 7-232 (Perera, 45.5 ov), 8-233 (Silva, 46.0 ov), 9-265 (Kulasekara, 49.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Shoaib Akhtar	10	0	42	2	4.20
	20.2 to Jayawardene, 138.0 kph, the Rawalpindi Express is chugging in at full steam, and has broken through the defences of Mahela, lovely delivery, pacy, on a length and cutting in, Mahela drove outside the line, and the middle stump was pegged back, Shoaib first does the aeroplane thing, then points to himself as if to say 'I told you' 95/3 45.5 to Perera, Shoaib Akhtar - rearranging stumps and landing like an aeroplane since 1997. What a legend. Thisara is gone. He finds out the hard way, than you can't set yourself up for pre-meditated slogs against the world's fastest. He moves the front foot away and looks to heave. Shoaib fires it full and fast, and removes the timber. Get ready for landing folks. 232/7
	Abdul Razzaq	5	1	23	0	4.60
	Umar Gul	9	0	60	1	6.66	(1nb, 2w)
	49.5 to Kulasekara, Gul has a wicket and Kula's free-scoring surge has come to an end. Not a yorker this time, it was a low full toss on leg stump and Kula couldn't get as much muscle under it as he would have wanted. Still went through with the shot, backing away and looking to launch it over long on. He found the fielder. 265/9
	Mohammad Hafeez	6	0	33	1	5.50	(2w)
	14.2 to Tharanga, 89.0 kph, well, I take that back. Hafeez has nailed Tharanga. As mentioned earlier, there is an army of green shirts inside the circle on the off side. Tossed up outside on leg, Tharanga drives on the up, and picks out Afridi at mid-off. He's thrilled after pouching the catch, tumbling forward. The game is back in the balance after Sri Lanka's recovery of sorts. 76/1
	Shahid Afridi	10	0	34	4	3.40	(1w)
	17.3 to Dilshan, 86.9 kph, boom booom strikes, it was too close for the cut, it was the one that went straight on, it was the one that kept low too, a deadly combination for Dilshan, who still went for the shot, and dinked it on to his stumps, Afridi stands mid-pitch with arms outstretched, has Pakistan's saviour arrived? 88/2 21.2 to Samaraweera, 88.6 kph, Shahid does the rope trick on Thilan, flights this one on middle, gets Thilan forward, and out of the crease, gets the ball to turn as well, Kamran does not mess up the take behind the stumps, in fact Thilan's foot is just out of the crease when Kamran takes off the bails, Shahid Afridi is one short of 300 ODI wickets 96/4 37.4 to Sangakkara, 87.4 kph, Captain strikes. Captain falls. How much of a contribution did Gul have to this dismissal? Sanga skips out of the crease. Afridi sees him and drops it short outside off. Sanga still wants to go over the top, so stops his initial shot and tries to cross-bat it over long on. Too ambitious. Shehzad runs in, tumbles forward and pouches. Finally someone doesn't let a stumping or a catch go. 169/5 43.4 to Mathews, Angelo is gone. Afridi has four. Shehzad has another catch. Angelo skips out of the crease, and Afridi sees him. He holds the length back and gets it to turn away. Angelo is forced to go with the shot and tries to cross-bat swipe it over long off. Mistimed, and it carries straight to Shehzad. Almost cleared the ropes, but not quite. 209/6
	Abdur Rehman	10	1	63	1	6.30	(1nb, 3w)
	46.1 to Silva, 90.0 kph, Silva's vigil ends. Rehman can't believe it. Kamran's actually effected a stumping off his bowling. Silva dawdles out of the crease, he looks for the heave. Rehman smartly gets it to drift away from him, and gets it past his stretched swipe. Kamran collects and breaks the stumps. Even he looks sheepish. 233/8

Match details

Toss Pakistan, who chose to bat Points Pakistan 2, Sri Lanka 0

Player of the match Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)

Umpires IJ Gould (England) and DJ Harper (Australia) TV umpire NJ Llong (England) Match referee BC Broad (England) Reserve umpire AL Hill (New Zealand)

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