Pakistan Beat Sri Lanka in 7th T 20 of series, 2009

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 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 T 20 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.

Pakistan won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 7th T 20 international match: M Jayawardene (c), Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), T Dilshan, Muttiah Muralitharan, Farveez Maharoof, Jehan Mubarak, Chamara k, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Ajantha Mendis

And Pakistan team and 11 was looking like this in this 7th T 20 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

Pakistan batted well and was able to post total of 190 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of S Malik who made 80 runs in 70 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 114 runs in 100 balls and K Akmal who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 191 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well but was unable to chase the target of 191 runs and was only able to make 158 runs in 19.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 32 runs and with top contributions from M Jaya who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 7 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 32 runs and series ends at 4-3 in favor of Sri Lanka.

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