Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka 2009

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Pakistan need 97 to beat Sri Lanka in first Test
GALLE: Pakistan chasing 168 runs to win the first Test after bowling Sri Lanka out for 217 in their second innings after tea on the third day here on Monday.

Pakistan were 71 for two at stumps on third day, still needing 97 runs to beat Sri Lanka, with opener Salman Butt (28) and experienced batsman Mohammad Yousuf (12) at the crease.

The two Pakistan batsmen dismissed were Khurram Manzoor (15) and captain Younis Khan (3).

Earlier, teenaged fast bowler Mohammad Aamer ripped through Sri Lanka's middle-order. The 17-year-old left-armer, playing his first Test match, grabbed three wickets for two runs as Sri Lanka collapsed from their lunch score of 70-2 to 101-5 soon after resumption.

The hosts went to tea on the third day struggling at 182-7 in their second innings, an overall lead of 132 runs with three wickets in hand at the Galle International Stadium.

Aamer, who hero-worships Pakistan's left-arm pace legend Wasim Akram, followed his three wickets in the first innings with a hostile burst soon after lunch.

He had Tharanga Paranavitana, Mahela Jayawardene and skipper Kumar Sangakkara caught by wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal in the space of 16 deliveries on a lively wicket freshened up by early morning rain.

Paranavitana, top scorer in Sri Lanka's first innings with 72, once again held the innings together with 49, but found little support from the top order.

Jayawardene failed to score and Sangakkara, leading Sri Lanka for the first time in a Test series, made nine and 14 in the two innings.

Sri Lanka were just 51 runs ahead with half the side back in the pavilion when Thilan Samaraweera and Tillakaratne Dilshan put on 37 for the sixth wicket.

Dilshan looked set while making 22 when he fell to Pakistan captain Younus Khan's part-time seam bowling, edging a catch to Khurram Manzoor in the slips.

Samaraweera was dismissed soon after for 34, beaten by the flight and turn from off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to give Misbah-ul Haq a low catch in the slips.

Rangana Herath, who opened the innings late Sunday as a nightwatchman and played out the lone over from Aamer, batted for an hour and 28 minutes to make 15.

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Play resumes in Galle Test

GALLE: Play began on the fourth day of the first cricket Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka here on Tuesday.

Pakistan was cruising toward a win after debutant bowlers Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Aamer produced three wickets each to end Sri Lanka''s second innings cheaply on Monday.

Chasing 168 runs to win, Pakistan needed 97 more runs to win at stumps on the third day with eight wickets in hand and two days to spare.

Spin bowler Ajantha Mendis took his first wicket of the match when he had Khurram Manzoor caught at slip by Mahela Jayawardene for15 runs. Captain Younis Khan did not survive much longer as he was trapped lbw by seamer Anjelo Mathews for three with the total on 39.

Mohammad Yousuf (12 not out) was batting with opener Salman Butt(28 not out) at stumps.

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Sri Lanka 292 (Paranavitana 72, Aamer 3-74, Younis 2-23) and 217 (Ajmal 3-34, Aamer 3-38, Younis 2-27) beat Pakistan 342 (Yousuf 112, Misbah 56, Kulasekara 4-71) and 117 (Herath 4-15, Thushara 2-21, Mendis 2-27) by 50 runs







During a collapse of Pakistani proportions, the incredible Galle Test took a complete U-turn and decisively went Sri Lanka's way. Pakistan started the day needing 97 with eight wickets in hand after Salman Butt and first-innings centurion Mohammad Yousuf had looked good negotiating the last half hour yesterday. But Thilan Thushara and Rangana Herath bowled exceptional spells of varied left-arm bowling to help Sri Lanka take the last eight wickets for just 46.
Pakistan's trouble against left-arm spinners are well documented - even Herath's previous best bowling in Tests had come against Pakistan - and he started the slide with his first ball of the day. Yousuf pretended to play a shot, but the bowl went straight on to get the lbw. A brain freeze from Butt followed, and he holed out to long leg. No run added, two wickets taken, game on.
Though he got just two wickets today, Thushara did the main job. Not a single loose delivery was offered in an eight-over spell during which he beat the batsmen so often that a ball hitting the middle of the bat could make it to a highlights package. Thushara got the ball to move both ways, seaming it away and swinging it in. Kumar Sangakkara read the situation perfectly, employing in-and-out fields, not giving easy release through boundaries, nor singles without an element of maneuvering. With Thushara bowling as he was, maneuvering was not going to come easy.
Thushara got Shoaib Malik with one that moved away, bringing in the last capable batsman, Kamran Akmal. Akmal is quite capable of running away with small chases with fluent doubt-free batting, but nothing loose was on offer. Even when Akmal got a square-cut going the result was just a single because of the field. Nervously Misbah-ul-Haq and Akmal survived 21 deliveries, adding just eight, that too thanks to a misfield that went for four.
Thushara struck again at that time, getting the ball to tail in and trap Akmal lbw. Misbah didn't feel too comfortable either and fell trying to steal a leg-bye off a big lbw appeal. It was the fifth ball of the Thushara over, and he could have been trying to retain the strike, but there was never a run in it.
By the time Thushara and Herath were done with their first spells, Pakistan had lost five wickets for 20 runs in 15 overs. There was no conceivable way then for the tail to get the remaining 77. Especially with Ajantha Mendis yet to bowl, who ended with his first ball a 10-run stand between Abdur Rauf and Umar Gul. The accurate carrom ball was just too good for Gul.
Mohammad Aamer hung around for a bit but Herath came back to finish the match minutes before lunch, ensuring Galle's reputation of being a tough venue to bat last at remained intact.

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Sri Lanka win first Test against Pak
GALLE: Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 50 runs in the first cricket Test here on Tuesday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Pakistan, chasing a modest target of 168, collapsed from their overnight total of 71-2 to 117 all out just before lunch on the fourth day at the Galle International Stadium.


Asked to bat first, Sri Lanka made 292 runs in its first innings and Pakistan replied with 342, a 50-run lead.

The hosts were dismissed for 217 in their second innings leaving Pakistan with 168-run target to win with two days to spare. But the visitors capitulated Tuesday to be dismissed for 117 runs on the fourth day.

The second Test starts at the P. Sara stadium in Colombo on July 12.

Scores: Sri Lanka 292 (Tharanga Paranavitana 72, Anjelo Mathews 42;Mohammad Aamer 3-74, Younis Khan 2-23) and 217 (TharangaParanavitana 49; Saeed Ajmal 3-34, Mohammad Aamer 3-38)

Pakistan 342 (Mohammad Yousuf 112; Nuwan Kulasekera 4-71, ThilanThushara 2-77) and 117 (Salman Butt 28; Rangana Herath 4-50).

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kaha tha team unpredictable hai
kuch bhee ho sakta hai yeah kum total chase nahi kar saktay

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kaha tha team unpredictable hai
kuch bhee ho sakta hai yeah kum total chase nahi kar saktay

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