Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan in 7th 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 7th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, 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 7th 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 7th 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 309 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of T Dilshan who made 137 runs in 139 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 99 runs in 100 balls and K Sanga who made 50 runs in 58 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 310 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted poorly and was unable to chase the target of 310 runs and was only able to make 75 runs in 22.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 234 runs and with top contributions from U Gul who made 27 runs in 35 balls with 3 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 77 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 234 runs and series ends at 4-3 in favor of Sri Lanka.

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