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 2nd match of 3 One day international Series was played on Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala, Pakistan on 16th 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 1st 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 1st 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 263 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and M Atapattu scored 57 runs in 82 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls and Skipper S Jayasuriya top scored as he made 65 runs in 78 balls with 9 4s and strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls.
Pakistan was required to get 264 runs in 50 over’s to win this game. And level the series 1-1 to remain alive in the series with one more game to play.
Pakistan struggled to score and kept losing wickets at regular intervals of the game and were finally bowled out in only 45.1 over’s at 229 runs and top scored by M Yusuf who made 68 runs in 87 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 78 runs in 100 balls.
Pakistan lost this match and series by 34 runs and are now 2-0 down in this 3 match One day International series with one more game to play.
S Jayasuriya was the Man of the Match for his great batting.
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