Dilruwan Jayarathne

Sri lanka's Batting woe continues! Yes you heard that right, from the Bangladesh ODIs to the England whiteball series their batting was POOR! And just as thy batted well in the ODIs. alas, 128 all out against India on a flat pitch which even 200 was able! I India won the first game quite comfortably and now they have a chance of securing the T20I series with a game to spare. Sri Lanka were disappointing in the first game but there were a few positives for them.   Same number of matches! 😁 What happened in the last game? India dominated the first T20I! Yes, that is what happened in the first game. India after being put into bat, scored 164 runs with Suryakumar Yadav who scored a fine 50. Shikhar Dhawan and Sanju Samson played well too but Sri Lanka made a good comeback at the death. Wanindu Hasaranga was the pick of the bowlers while the seamers used the slower balls to perfection.   Sri Lanka with the bat were disappointing. They just could not cope up with the pitch and they stru

  SCORECARD PAKISTAN INNINGS (50 OVERS MAXIMUM) BATTING   R B M 4s 6s SR Imam-ul-Haq   b Parkinson 56 73 110 7 0 76.71 Fakhar Zaman  c Crawley b Mahmood 6 14 23 1 0 42.85 Babar Azam  (c) c Malan b Carse 158 139 198 14 4 113.66 Mohammad Rizwan  † c †Simpson b Carse 74 58 87 8 0 127.58 Sohaib Maqsood  c Vince b Carse 8 5 11 2 0 160.00 Hasan Ali  c Crawley b Carse 4 2 4 1 0 200.00 Faheem Ashraf   b Mahmood 10 4 6 1 1 250.00 Shadab Khan  c †Simpson b Mahmood 0 1 2 0 0 0.00 Saud Shakeel  not out 3 3 6 0 0 100.00 Shaheen Shah Afridi  c Vince b Carse 0 1 3 0 0 0.00 Haris Rauf  not out 0 0 2 0 0 - Extras (lb 3, w 9) 12 TOTAL (50 Ov, RR: 6.62) 331/9 Fall of wickets:  1-21 (Fakhar Zaman, 4.4 ov) , 2-113 (Imam-ul-Haq, 25.5 ov) , 3-292 (Mohammad Rizwan, 45.5 ov) , 4-305 (Sohaib Maqsood, 47.2 ov) , 5-309 (Hasan Ali, 47.4 ov) , 6-324 (Faheem Ashraf, 48.5 ov) , 7-324 (Shadab Khan, 48.6 ov) , 8-328 (Babar Azam, 49.2 ov) , 9-329 (Shaheen Shah Afridi, 49.4 ov) BOWLING O M R W ECON 0s 4s 6s WD NB Saqib M