Pakistan faced Sri Lanka in a crucial Super 8 match. The match was played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to bowl first. Pakistan won the match by 5 wickets.
In this match, Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka decided to bowl first after winning the toss. After this, a brilliant batting performance was seen from Pakistan’s side. The opening pair of Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman gave the team a very good start in this match in which a partnership of 176 runs was seen between the two for the first wicket. While Fakhar Zaman returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 84 runs in this match, a brilliant inning of 100 runs was seen from the bat of Sahibzada Farhan in which he was successful in scoring 212 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Talking about Pakistan’s bowling, Abrar Ahmed took 3 wickets and Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Mohammad Nawaz took 1 wicket each.
While chasing the target, Sri Lanka’s captain Dasun Shanaka scored an unbeaten 76 and Pawan Ratnayake scored 58 runs but they could not save their team from defeat and lost the match by 5 runs.
Sri Lanka’s bowling performance was dominated by Dilshan Madushanka who took three wickets, Dasun Shanaka took two wickets and Dushmantha Chameera took one wicket.
With this match, the journey of both the teams in the ICC T20 World Cup ended.
