Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20 Live Preview, Date, Venue, Line Up
After Pakistan beats Sri Lanka by 29 runs in 1st T20 of two-match series at R.Premadasa Stadium Colombo, where Pakistani seamers as veteran Sohail Tanvir and Anwar Ali stormed Sri Lankan tigers who faced lots of difficulties and lost the first game.
Now, Men in Green shirts look so much aggressive for clean sweep in two matches’ series to their rivals as second match to be played on 1st August at 6.pm (Pakistan’s started time) — once again at R.Premadasa Stadium Colombo.
Pakistan has been showing the best since the joined Sri Lankan series as test, ODI and this time T20, while T20 captain Shahid Afridi was seen totally out of form in first game, while Ahmed Shehzad, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal remained successful to show their best.
Shehzad gave praiseworthy start to his team while hitting hard Sri Lankan attackers but after scoring 46 on 38 balls, later on Malik hit hard by scoring 46 on 31, even Akmal also accompanied with them to collect good score for team, made also 46.
However, experienced the former T20 captain of Pakistan national cricket team, Mohammad Hafeez and opener Mukhtar Ahmed couldn’t show their best in first T20, whereas might be strong hitter in today’s final game of the series.
Men in Green have been maintaining with their non-stop winning line against Sri Lankan Tiger, it seems to be set all to name today’s win to show their best.
Pakistan’s longest duration tour with victories would be memorable ever as stunned guest team showing praiseworthy acts in all series, might continued series.
Pakistani bowling made so much disturbed Sri Lanka’s top order batsman and no one can perform well besides Dhananjaya de Silva scored (31), Milinda Siriwardana (35), Chamara Kapugedera (31), while skipper Angelo Mathews made 23.
Squad:
Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), Angelo Mathews, Tilakaratne Dilshan, , Chamara Kapugedera, Kusal Perera, Shehan Jayasuriya, Kithruwan Vithanage, Dhananjaya de Silva, Binura Fernando, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Thisara Perera, Jeffrey Vandersay, Nuwan Kulasekara, Chaturanga de Silva, Milinda Siriwardene.
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (c), Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad, Shoaib Malik, Mukhtar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan, Sohail Tanvir, Nauman Anwar, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Yasir Shah, Zia-ul-Haq.