Pakistan Beat Sri Lanka in 3rd ODI of series, 2013-14

Sri Lanka and Pakistan was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in United Arab Emirates in 2013-14. 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 will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 4th and 5th. The 3rd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah , United Arab Emirates on 22nd Dec 2013.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd ONE DAY international match: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez (c), Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal (wk), M UL Haq, Sharjeel Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Usman Khan

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd ONE DAY international Match: Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Sachithra Senanayake, Kusal Perera

Pakistan batted very well and was able to post total of 326 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of M hafeez who made 140 runs in 136 balls with 11 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 103 runs in 100 balls and M UL Haq who made 40 runs in 26 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 154 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 327 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the score of 327 runs and was able to score 213 runs in 44.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 113 runs and top scores by T Dilshan who made 59 runs in 62 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 113 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 2-1 in favor of Pakistan with 2 more games to play in this series.

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