Player of the Match
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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Saud Shakeel
208(361) 19x4 - 0x6
Control %92%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 38 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
20 14 26 28 48 8 8 56
DM de Silva
122(214) 12x4 - 3x6
Control %89%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 20 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
16 18 13 8 18 18 11 20

Best performances - Bowlers

RTM Mendis
O42.2
M2
R136
W5
Eco3.21
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W1W
NGRP Jayasuriya
O14.5
M0
R56
W4
Eco3.77
RHB
OFFLEG
3W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

Pakistan led the 2-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

09.30 start, Lunch 11.30-12.10, Tea 14.10-14.30, Close 16.30

Match days

16,17,18,19,20 July 2023 (5-day match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Pakistan 12, Sri Lanka 0

Scorecard Summary

SRI LANKA 312(95.2 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

PAKISTAN 461(121.2 OVERS)
1ST INNINGS

SRI LANKA 279(83.1 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

PAKISTAN 133/6(32.5 OVERS)
2ND INNINGS

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Danyal Rasool

Munib: "Ahhh...! Babar's "definitely" is soo soothing." It's a good note to end on. And on that note, end we do. Thank you so, so much for sticking around with us, sharing the entertaining bits and making the duller ones more fun. We'll see you again in Colombo on Thursday. Take care.

"When you win a match, it gives to confidence. All credit to these youngsters for the way they performed," Pakistan skipper Babar Azam says.

"We lost early wickets, and then the way Saud and Agha played totally changed the game. You need that kind of partnership, and that really pleased me. It's not easy to bat in Galle, but the way Saud's playing is outstanding, and I wish him luck for the next game."

"Once we won the toss, we knew how good their fast bowlers are. We needed to see off that opening spell but we lost a few wickets," Dimuth says. "We bowled really well in patches, but then we start leaking runs. Overall, the bowlers did really well, but we dropped a few catches and that cost us. We have to assess what went wrong and come back again." Plenty of praise for Dhananjaya, too. "We need to support him as his fellow batters."

Dhananjaya de Silva gets a Super Flyer award and some kind of hamper for scoring the most boundaries. Yeah, don't ask me what's in the hamper

Saud Shakeel has been awarded the Player of the Match award "I was just trying to build partnerships, be positive and look for runs," he says. "We are skilled in how to play the sweep and reverse sweep shots, and we knew we needed to execute it well. I'm from Karachi and I'm used to playing a lot of spin there."

We'll be back with the presentations shortly.

Rashid Hassan: "Just saw the WTC standings after this match. How many of you want it to be like this till the very end?India V Pak in the final. "

Yadullah: "So the Galle forte is conquered once again. A great start to the new WTC cycle for the Green Army."

11:06am: There are handshakes out in tge middle and hugs in the dressing room as Pakistan seal their first Test win in exactly one year Their last win came in Galle on July 20 2022, and that barren run has finally come to an end

32.5
6
Jayasuriya to Agha Salman, SIX, finishes it off in style! Comes down the track and drives him over mid-off, the ball sailing all the way for six!

Sachithra: "Sri Lanka needs to hire a review consultant. The reviews they have taken in International games in the recent past have been abysmal." It's some of the worst reviewing I've seen in recent times too, yep

32.4
W
Jayasuriya to Sarfaraz Ahmed, OUT, gets a top edge to square leg, holing out to the man stationed there! It was an uncertain, jittery innings from the Pakistan keeper, and it comes to an end now Fantastic catch in the deep, plucking it low off the ground to give Jayasuriya his fourth wicket

Sarfaraz Ahmed c BKG Mendis b Jayasuriya 1 (12m 10b 0x4 0x6) SR: 10.00

32.3
0
Jayasuriya to Sarfaraz Ahmed, no run, driven back towards the bowler, who drives smartly to collect
32.2
0
Jayasuriya to Sarfaraz Ahmed, no run, skips down the track but gets a leading edge to mid-off
32.1
0
Jayasuriya to Sarfaraz Ahmed, no run, brought the broom out. Great fielding by Madushka at short leg to prevent it going for runs

Pakistan 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st16Imam-ul-HaqAbdullah Shafique
2nd20Shan MasoodImam-ul-Haq
3rd2Noman AliImam-ul-Haq
4th41Babar AzamImam-ul-Haq
5th43Imam-ul-HaqSaud Shakeel
6th5Sarfaraz AhmedImam-ul-Haq
7th6Imam-ul-HaqAgha Salman