A deliberate Ahmed Shehzad, a spry Shoaib Malik and a bellicose Umar Akmal hit 46 runs each to convey Pakistan to 175 for 5, an aggregate Sri Lanka's pursuit never had the measure of. Milinda Siriwardana and Chamara Kapugedera played jolly innings from the lower center request, however Pakistan were dependably top choices to guard their score, having had the hosts at 19 for 3 in the fourth over. Sohail Tanvir was prime destroyer with the new ball, and completed with figures of 3 for 29 from his four overs. The hosts missed the mark by 29 runs.
Shehzad had been instrumental to giving the stage, however it was Malik and Akmal's fourth-wicket charge that asserted control of the match for Pakistan. They met up amidst the twelfth over and impacted 81 keeps running from 45 balls, taking a specific getting a kick out of the chance to Lasith Malinga, whose three overs to the pair cost 37 runs.
Debutant left-arm seamer Binura Fernando wasn't saved either, going at 9.5 in his four overs. Despite the fact that legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay gave back the most sparing figures of the innings, Malinga did not utilize any of his supplementary twist alternatives.
Pakistan had started their innings with a wobble also, losing Mukhtar Ahmed to Angelo Mathews' tight lines in the second over, as the guests neglected to hit a limit in the initial 20 balls. They advanced at seven an over amid the Powerplay and, in spite of the fact that they would soon lose Hafeez too, were bumped ahead by Shehzad's enduring hand. He hit just four limits off 38 balls, depending rather on very much weighted strokes into the outfield.
His bungled slope shot off Thisara Perera united Malik and Akmal, and the pair saw out the end of Vandersay - who sent down his full quantity without yielding a limit - before training in on the seamers. They hammered a four each off Malinga's wayward fourteenth over, took 11 off Mathews next up, and after that Akmal cudgeled two progressive sixes, including a snare, off Fernando's neighborly crease rocking the bowling alley to harvest 17 keeps running from the sixteenth.
The loot proceeded with from that point - Akmal succeeding with a variety of slices and trudges, Malik squeezing forward with somewhat more culture. Akmal dispatched an endeavored Malinga yorker high over long-on for six to come extremely close to a half-century, yet the bowler took care of business the following ball right. He caught Akmal plumb before the stumps with the last bundle of the penultimate over to leave the batsman with 46 from 24.
Malik stayed unbeaten toward the end of the innings, having confronted 31 conveyances, of which just five were spot balls. Malinga's figures, in the mean time, were just marginally reclaimed by the wicket. He had 46 for 1 from his full portion of overs.
Kusal Perera pointed a leg-side hurl off Anwar Ali third bundle of the pursuit, however oversaw just a top-edge to mid-on. Tillakaratne Dilshan edged a seaming Tanvir conveyance behind next over, before Kithuruwan Vithanage soon tumbled to the same bowler, avoiding a full conveyance onto his stumps.
Mathews and debutant Siriwardana endeavored a recuperation, yet neither one of the batsmans dealt with the limits that would have kept Sri Lanka in sight of the obliged rate. At the point when Mathews was played by Imad Wasim toward the end of the tenth over, Sri Lanka required more than 12 runs an over.
Siriwardana, one of the four T20 debutants for Sri Lanka in this diversion, furnished some trust with clean hitting, generally off the spinners. His strike over long-on off Shahid Afridi was especially huge, yet ostensibly, Kapugedera's hitting was surprisingly better. Playing his first match for Sri Lanka since June 2012, he waltzed down the pitch to dispatch Malik into the sightscreen off his second ball, then raised Tanvir's last wad of the day over the spread rope with a slow expansion of the arms. Siriwardana was rejected for 35 off 18, Kapugedera stayed not out at 31 from 16.
Notwithstanding this blast, Pakistan facilitated home to finish Sri Lanka's seventh misfortune in eight T20 matches at the Premadasa Stadium.
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