Pakistan vs Srilanka T 20 series

Pakistan vs Srilanka T 20 series

Pakistan has won first T 20 match

The first T-20 match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka was played in Colombo. Pakistan had won the test and one day series and their players moral was very high. When Pakistan XI has been announced many observers were surprised because the in form batsman Sarfaraz Ahmad had been dropped from the Playing XI. Sarfraz's performance was very good in Test and one-day.In the past, There has been these kind of things with Sarfaraz. People want to know who wants to finish the confidence of Sarfaraz. Team management should seriously think about it.Pakistan

captain Shahid Afridi won the toss. Afridi Said that he want to 175 runs on score board because the wicket is good for batting Pakistani openers Mukhtar Ahmed and Ahmed Shehzad started the innings but shortly Mukhtar was out by Mathews and Jeffrey took the catch Mukhtar scored only two runs. After Mukhtar, Hafeez come to play. He played some good strokes but when he reached at the score of 17 he was out. Kithuruwan Vithanage has caught him on the ball of T Perera. Now shoaib malik come to play. He joined Ahmed Shehzad but  after some time Ahamed Shehzad which was playing beautifully was out on his own score of 46 he was out by T Perera. After dismissing Ahmed Shehzad Umar Akmal come to play.

81 runs were increased in the partner ship of Umar Akmal and Shoaib Malik. When the score was 164 Umar Akmal was out lbw by Malinga. When Shahid Afridi's reached on the score of 8 Farnando Bowled him. When the 20 overs were completed Pakistan score was 175 and Pakistan has lost five wickets.Umar Akmal and Shoaib Malik made 46 runs each. Pakistan had given a big target of 176 runs to Srilanka.

In the Bowling sector Thisara Perera got two wickets Binura Fernando, Angelo Mathews and Malinga got one wicket each. Sri Lanka had a tough target of 176 runs Srilanka started his innings with Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan. Sri Lanka had faced difficulties at the beginning because their openers perera and Dilshan were out soon. Perera made 4 runs and Dilshan made 6 runs they were out by Anwer Ali and Tinvir and their catches are taken by afridi and Rizwan. When the Srilanka score was 19 another wicket had fallen.  Kithuruwan Vithanage was out when his score is only one 

he was bowled by Tanvir. When Srilanka's score reached at 55 Imad Wasim boweled Angelo Mathews he made 23 runs. then some resistances was shown by Dhananjaya de Silva, Milinda Siriwardana, Chamara Kapugedera they made 31, 35, and 31 runs. 

There came a time, When Srilanka team came back in the match but Sohail Tanvir got the wicket at the right time and Srilanka team lost the heart and also had lost the match. Sohail Tanveer took three wickets and was declared man of the match. Anwer Ali took two wickets, Imad Wasim and Shoaib Malik took one wicket each.

Sri Lanka lost the match by 29 runs. Pakistan won the first T 20 match. It is a Great victory for Pakistan. People of Pakistan have hope That Pakistan would also win the T 20 series like Test match series and One day series but People of Pakistan have a big question in their mindss Why the Sarfaraz the Vice-captain of the team has been dropped because Sarfaraz performance was good in test series and one day matches.

Syed Muhammad

 Tehseen Abidi