Pakistan Beat Sri Lanka in 1st ODI of series, 2009

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in Pakistan in 2009. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 3 and 5. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Mahela Jayawardene (c), Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara (wk),Tillakaratne Dilshan, Muttiah Muralitharan, Farveez Maharoof, Jehan Mubarak, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Ajantha Mendis

And Pakistan team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik (c), Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Misbah ul Haq, Iftikhar Anjum, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Khurram Manzoor

Sri Lanka did not batted well and was able to post total of only 219 runs in 45.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of T Dilshan who made 42 runs in 33 balls with 7 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 127 runs in 100 balls and K Sanga who made 49 runs in 70 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 220 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well and was able to chase the target of 220 runs in 45.5 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and won the game by 8 wickets in hand and with top contributions from S Butt who made 100 runs in 117 balls with 13 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 85 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 8 wickets in hand and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Pakistan.

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