Pakistan Beat Sri Lanka in 4th 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 4th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on 25th Dec 2013.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 4th 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 4th ONE DAY international Match: Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Ashan P, Kusal Perera

Sri Lanka did not bat well and was able to post total of only 225 runs in 48.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of Ashan P who made 74 runs in 93 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 103 runs in 100 balls and K Sanga who made 51 runs in 78 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 226 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well and was able to chase the score of 226 runs in 41.4 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and won the game by 8 wickets in hand and top scores by M hafeez who made 113 runs in 119 balls with 12 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 8 wickets in hand and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 3-1 in favor of Pakistan with 1 more games to play in this series.

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