Pakistan was beaten by Sri Lankan in the 1st Odi of bilateral series played in 2000

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play 3 One Day International Matches in Pakistan in 2000. It was a very interesting series as both these teams were playing some great cricket on that time. The 1st match of 3 One day international Series was played on National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan on 13th Feb, 2000.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means Sri Lanka will bat first and will set target for Pakistan to chase later in the match. This how Pakistan team and 11 was looking in this 1^st One day international: Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq, Younis Khan, Shahid Nazir, Yasir Arafat,Wasim Akram, Saeed Anwar (c), Moin Khan (wk), Aamer Sohail, Saqlain Mushtaq, Imran Abbas

And Sri Lankan team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st one day International match: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Chandana, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, Indika de Saram, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Pramodya Wickramasinghe

Sri Lanka started superbly well and were able to set total of 274 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and M Atapattu top scored with 119 runs in 135 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 88 runs in 100 balls and Skipper S Jayasuriya made 54 runs in 73 balls with 5 4s and strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was required to get 275 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Pakistan started well but they were not able to capitalize on the good start and lost their way in the middle over’s and were only able to make and were bowled out for 245 runs in 48 over’s and was top scored by A Sohail who made 47 runs in 66 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan lost this game by 29 runs and now was 1-0 down in this 3 match one day International series with 2 more games to play.

M Atapattu was awarded Man of the match for his great batting.

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