Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan in 2nd 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 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 20th Dec 2013.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Pakistan team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez (c), Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal (wk), M UL Haq, Sharjeel Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Usman Khan

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd 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 284 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of A Shehzad who made 124 runs in 140 balls with 8 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and M UL Haq who made 59 runs in 62 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 95 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 285 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to chase the score of 285 runs in 49.4 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and won the game by 2 wickets in hand and top scores by K sanga who made 58 runs in 67 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 2 wickets in hand and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-1 with 3 more games to play in this series.

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