Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2013-14

[Basil]

Sri Lanka win toss and bat

 

[Basil]

Sri Lanka 22/1
Gul removes kusal early

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Sl 153-4 in 33 overs

 

[Karthik]

Srilanka 225 all out just now.

 

[IndiaN]

Srilanka AllOut for 225 Runs in 48.5Overs
Priyanjan Got 74 Runs & Sangakkara 51
Saeed Ajmal Got 4 Wickets , Umar Gul Got 3 & Junaid Khan Got 2

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Pak 104-1 in 17 overs

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Pak beat sl by 8 wickets to win the series 3, 1. One odi still to go.

Hafeez hits 3rd ton in the series.

 

[Basil]

Afridi returns home from the UAE​

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan allrounder, has returned home to be with his unwell daughter and will miss the fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka in the UAE. He had also withdrawn from his contract with South African franchise Knights last week for the same reason.

Afridi was set to fly to Pakistan on Thursday, and has a two-month gap until his next international assignment - Pakistan have no limited-over cricket until the Asia Cup in February, followed by World Twenty20 in March. PCB confirmed in the early hours of Thursday that Afridi is "returning home due to his illness of his daughter".

Pakistan have already clinched the five-match ODI series 3-1, but Afridi has remained off-colour with the ball, averaging 30.80 in the four games. He has played a couple of cameos with the bat, though, with 34 off 12 balls and 30 off 15 in the first and second ODI respectively.

With Pakistan having unassailable series lead, his exclusion won't hurt Pakistan too much, and will allow the team management to test its bench strength. Anwar Ali is the strongest candidate to replace Afridi. The PCB hasn't announced any replacement for him, deciding to stick with the remaining squad.

 

[Basil]

Pakistan pick Mohammad Talha for Tests
​

Pakistan have picked fast bowler Mohammad Talha for the Tests against Sri Lanka more than four years after he played his only match, in March 2009. They have also recalled fast bowler Umar Gul, who is fit again, and allrounder Mohammad Hafeez, who who scored three hundreds in the first four ODIs against Sri Lanka in the UAE.

The players missing from the squad that played the Tests against South Africa in the UAE were: the injured fast bowler Mohammad Irfan, batsman Umar Amin and spinner Zulfiqar Babar.

Talha's debut was in the Lahore Test in 2009, which had to be abandoned after the bus transporting the Sri Lankan team was attacked by terrorists. He was part of the squad for the tour of Bangladesh in 2011-12 but did not play, and an injury ruled him out of that season's series against England in the UAE. He recently took 11 wickets for Port Qasim Authority in the President's Trophy.

Gul's last Test for Pakistan was in South Africa in February this year, after which he was sidelined by injury until his recall to the ODI squad ahead of the third match of the ongoing series against Sri Lanka.

Hafeez had been dropped for the Tests against South Africa in the UAE because he had scored 102 runs in 10 innings this year, struggling primarily against Dale Steyn. His return to this squad was largely due to his match-winning performances with the bat in the ODIs against Sri Lanka.

Test squad: Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Khurram Manzoor, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Asaf Shafiq, Younis Khan, Adnan Akmal, Junaid Khan, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Umar Gul, Rahat ali, Mohammad Talha.

 

[Mudasir 4K]

Pak vs sl 5th odi

Pakistan won the Toss & Elected
to Bat First

2 Changes in Pakistan Team !!
Afridi & Bilawal bhatti OUT
Abdur Rehman & Anwar Ali IN