Yesterday,A Night With Thriller Performances by Both Teams.Pakistan’s Bowling Was At It’s best while Sri Lankan Batting Was At Peak.Sri Lankan Top Order Was Top Notch With An Opening Partnership Of 85 Runs in just 11 Overs.
1st Innings (Pakistan)
Pakistan’s Start Was Horrible,Saim Ayub got out On just 6 runs Adding To The Scorecard.Although Fakhar Showed Some Aggression but Stumped out on total of 68 Runs.He Hit 32 Runs With Help Of 2 Boundaries And 1 Six.Similarly Babar And Rizwan Got Out Early.
Now Pakistan Were 95/4 in just 23.2 Overs.Then Came Salman Ali Agha and Hussain Talat.BothbOf These Batters Played Heroic Knocks and Saved Pakistan’s Tumbling Wickets.Hussain Talat With A Half Century And Salman Ali Agha With A Dominating Century,Added 135 Runs Into The Scoreboard.After These Performances Pakistan Were 233/5.
Then Came Nawaz Show for Some Entertaintment.He Added Fast 36 Runs On 23 Balls With A Strike Rate Of 156.Pakistan Ended Innings on 299/5.
2nd Innings(Sri Lanka)
Sri Lankan Batters Shattered Pakistani Bowlers In 1st Power play by making 80+ Runs Partnership.Their Opners Pathum Nissanka & K Mishara destroyed Pakistani Bowlers.At That Point Sri Lanka Was Dominating Pakistan And Seemed In Hurry To Finish The Game.
Counter Attack Of Pakistan
Haris Rauf Handed Over To Bowl The 12th Over.He Picked Both Wickets Of Opners In Just 2 Balls.He Was Completely Dominating The Sri Lankan Batting Lineup.He Picked 3 Consecutive Wickets In His First 2 Overs and Romved Their Top Order in Just 12 Balls.
Sri Lanka’s Fightback
Middle Order Started To Re-Build The Innings A Partnership of 57 Runs Between Samarawickrama & Asalanka,A Partnership of 36 Runs Between Asalanka & Liyange Provided Lifelines To Sri Lankan Chase.
Pakistan’s Bowling Showcase
Haris Rauf Continued His Fire,He Again Picked An Important Wicket Of Sadeera Samarawickrama.What A Brilliant Catch At the Slip By King Babar Azam.He Grabbed it Single Handedly.Nawaz Came And Removed Charith Asalanka.Faheem Ashraf Also Got the Wicket Of Janith Liyange.Sri Lankan Hopes Were Dying because They Were 191/6 In 33 Overs.
Hasaranga’s Power Packed Knock
Wanindu Hasaranga Came At the Crease When Sri Lanka Were 210/7.He Started Raising The Scoreboard As Well As Hopes Of Sri Lankan Team.He Hit 59 Runs On 52 Balls.Pakistan’s Win Was In Danger When He Was At The Crease.
Pakistan’s Victory
On The Other Hand,Wickets Were Tumbling.Naseem Shah & Faheem Ashraf Lead Pakistan Near Victory.Last Over Was Given To Hussain Talat,A Strange Decision But He Bowled Very Well and Saved The Match For Pakistan.Pakistan Won The Match by 6 Runs & Lead The Series By 1-0.
