Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan in 2nd 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 2nd 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.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd  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 2nd  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

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to post total of 150 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of K Sanga who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls and T Dilshan who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 151 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted well but was unable to chase the target of 151 runs and was only able to make 130 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 20 runs and with top contributions from Y Khan who made 30 runs in 30 balls with 1 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 20 runs and series stands at 2-0 in favor of Sri Lanka with 5 more games to play.

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