Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan in 4th 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 4th 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.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 4th 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 4th 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 batted well and was able to post total of 290 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of T Dilshan who made 76 runs in 88 balls with 11 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls and Chamara K who made 44 runs in 39 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 291 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 291 runs and was only able to make 161 runs in 34.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 129 runs and with top contributions from S Butt who made 62 runs in 87 balls with 6 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 129 runs and series stands at 3-1 in favor of Pakistan with 3 more games to play.

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