Pakistan Beat Sri Lanka in 1st 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 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on 18th Dec 2013.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez (c), Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal (wk), Bilawal Bhatti, Sharjeel Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Usman Khan

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Sachithra Senanayake, Kusal Perera

Pakistan batted very well and was able to post total of 322 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of M hafeez who made 122 runs in 129 balls with 7 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls and S Maqsood who made 73 runs in 68 balls with 2 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 107 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 323 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the score of 323 runs and was able to score 311 in 49.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 11 runs and top scores by K Perera who made 64 runs in 68 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 11 runs in hand and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0 in favor of Pakistan with 4 more games to play in this series.

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