Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day1 Cricinfo With Highlights
Highlights
On a painful day for Pakistan off the field with three of their players getting jail terms for their involvement in spot-fixing, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan made it a tough day for them on the field as well as Sri Lanka reached 245 for 2 by stumps. On a track where the bowlers had little help, Sri Lanka turned in the sort of performance they needed to stand a chance of leveling this series.
The two batsmen who starred were in contrasting form coming into this match: Dilshan had only one half-century in his previous five Tests, while Sangakkara had three half-centuries and a 211 in seven previous innings. Dilshan's career took off when he became an opener a few years ago, and he rediscovered his touch today on returning to the top of the order after a brief, fruitless dalliance in the middle order.
It didn't seem like such a dominant day was on the cards for Sri Lanka after the first over of the day from Umar Gul. He got the ball to swerve around early on, beating Tharanga Paranavitana with his first delivery, before the batsman was reprieved three balls later at short leg. That didn't hurt Pakistan, though, as Gul got the next delivery to bend sharply away from Paranavitana, who could only nick it to second slip. Two overs later, Sangakkara was nearly run out after a miscommunication with Dilshan.
After those initial jitters though, the Sri Lankan batsmen started to take charge. Sangakkara opened out with a typically graceful cover drive in the fourth over before Dilshan got going with a couple of cracking drives for four when Gul pitched it up in the seventh over.
With only two quick bowlers in the side, Pakistan had to resort to long spells of spin, and the slow bowlers had only a little assistance on the first day track. Saeed Ajmal was lofted over his head by Sangakkara in his only over before lunch, while Abdur Rehman was punched in front of point for a boundary by Dilshan.
Sangakkara reached the milestone of 9000 Test runs in the morning, and had little trouble during another easy-on-the-eye innings. He did have a life when on 68, when he was tricked by Saeed Ajmal after the batsman charged down the track; there was a thick edge which was very difficult for wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal to collect.
Akmal did hang on to a similarly difficult chance in the final over before lunch but that too did not result in a wicket as the umpire Shavir Tarapore didn't realise that the Gul bouncer had flown off Dilshan's gloves.
Both batsmen were more aggressive in the second session. A combination of poor bowling and aggressive intent resulted in a bunch of boundaries soon after the break, the highlight of which was Sangakkara's slog-swept six off Rehman. Dilshan showed how confident he was by pulling Junaid Khan for six midway through the session, taking on the man at deep square leg.
Sri Lanka 245/2 (86.0 ov)
Pakistan
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat
Stumps - Day 1
- Pakistan v Sri Lanka Test Series - 3rd Test
- Test no. 2014 | 2011/12 season
- Played at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium(neutral venue)
- 3,4,5,6,7 November 2011 (5-day match)
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
 | NT Paranavitana | c Younis Khan b Umar Gul | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| TM Dilshan* | c Younis Khan b Saeed Ajmal | 92 | 168 | 12 | 1 | 54.76 | |
| KC Sangakkara | not out | 112 | 263 | 11 | 2 | 42.58 | ||
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 32 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 39.02 | ||
| Extras | (lb 3, nb 2) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 86 overs) | 245 | (2.84 runs per over) | |||||
| To bat AD Mathews, JK Silva†, CKB Kulasekara, S Randiv, HMRKB Herath, KTGD Prasad, UWMBCA Welegedara |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Paranavitana, 0.5 ov), 2-177 (Dilshan, 60.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Umar Gul | 17 | 6 | 43 | 1 | 2.52 | (1nb) | |
| Junaid Khan | 17 | 2 | 63 | 0 | 3.70 | (1nb) | ||
| Saeed Ajmal | 27 | 3 | 71 | 1 | 2.62 | ||
| Abdur Rehman | 24 | 5 | 62 | 0 | 2.58 | |||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Pakistan team | ||||
| Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq*, Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal†, Umar Gul, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan |
| Match details |
| Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat |
| Test debut CKB Kulasekara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match tba |
| Umpires SK Tarapore (India) and SJA Taufel (Australia) TV umpire Shozab Raza (Pakistan) Match referee DC Boon (Australia) Reserve umpire Zameer Haider (Pakistan) |
| Close of play day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 245/2 (KC Sangakkara 112*, DPMD Jayawardene 32*, 86 ov) |
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