Sri Lanka won 2nd Test and Take Lead 1-0 -PAKvSL

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Sri Lanka Won the 2nd Test- Played at Dubai and take lead 1-0

Superb bowling in 1st innings by Sri Lankan bowlers took the 2nd Test match away from Pakistan. After 1stinnings of Pakistan , Sri Lankan batsmans also played really well in their first innings and 2nd innings as well
. On 5th day 2ndTest, there was a prediction of rain . Rain was an opportunity for Pakistan for drawn the match and they were hoping rain. As morining of 5th day of Test match started with bad weather. But weather behaved opposite to the hopes of Pakistan and Sri Lanka easily played in sunshine and chased the target quiet easily.

Score:

Pakistan 1st innings:

Only 1 batsman from Pakitsan side (Khurram Manzoor) played well in 1st innings and he scored 73 . No other batsman scored more than 25 in 1st innings. And all out in just 165

  • Khurram Manzoor 73

Sri Lanka Bowling:

  • Herath 3-26
  • Pradeep 3-62

Sri Lanka 1st innings:

Kausal Silva and Mahela Jayawardene played unbeatan runs of 95 and 129 respectively. This innings of Mahela Jayawardene helped to improved his Test Ranking of ICC to 7 steps Up. With the help of these two batsmans , Sri Lanka scored 388 and got a huge lead of 223 runs.
  • Mahela Jayawardene 139

  • Kausal Silva 95

Pakistan Bowling:

  • Junaid Khan 3-102


Pakistan 2nd innings:

Pakistan had to first equal the lead of 223 and then a good Target to Sri Lanka for winning the match. Pakistani batsmans played responsibily in 2nd innings .But a huge lead taken by Lankan batsmans was a plus point for Sri Lanka. Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq , Younas Khan and Adnan Akmal defended very well but Pakistan all out on 359.

  • Misbah-ul-Haq 97

  • Younis Khan 77
  • Sarfraz Aahmed 74

Sri Lanka Bowling:

  • Suranga Lakmal 4-78

Sri Lanka 2nd innings:

Target for Sri Lanka was just 137 runs. Bad weather or rain caould draw the mattch. But weather went in Sri Lnakan’s favour and Sri Lanka chased the target quiet easily by losing just 1 wicket. And Won the match with 9 wickets in hand.

  • Dimuth Karunaratne 62* (NOT OUT)
  • Kausal Silva 58