Shahid Afridi stars as Pakistan triumph over Srilanka

Shahid Afridi drives during his half century

Sharjah, November 20: Pakistan clinch the five matches series as Shahid Afridi played decisive role that steered Pakistan to a memorable win over over Sri Lanka in the 4th one-day-international. He derailed the Srilankan batting after scoring a half century, making the game a one man show.
Afridi scored 75 runs of 65 balls to lift Pakistan to 200 after the team was disintegrated to 97 for 6. Afridi added 61 for the eighth wicket with Ajmal (20) after Sarfraz Ahmed went out on 120-7.
Kumar Sangakara (58) and Mahela Jayawardene (55) made a 102-run fourth wicket stand that had put Sri Lanka on the course after early fall of Tharanga (16) and Dilshan (11).
 Sri Lanka at that time required just 44 runs to win when Afridi bowled Sangakara that started their collapse as their last seven wickets fell for just 19 runs. Saeed Ajmal dismissed Angelo Mathews for a duck in the next over and Afridi took Jayawardene in the 44th over, ending the hopes for Sri Lanka.
Shahid Afridi said that he likes to "perform like this in every match".
Sri Lankan captain Dilshan was disappointed and said, " It's unbelievable to loose seven wickets for 20 odd runs."

Pakistan celebrate after dismissing Dinesh Chandimal

Summary:

PAKISTAN 1ST INNINGS

Batsman		Runs	6s	4s	Balls
Mohammad Hafeez	c Chandimal b Prasanna	27	0	3	51
Imran Farhat	c Sangakkara b Fernando	10	0	2	17
Y K Khan	c Mendis b Fernando	18	0	1	27
Misbah-ul-Haq	run out	16	0	2	34
S Malik	lbw b Mendis	2	0	0	22
Umar Akmal	lbw b Mendis	2	0	0	5
S Afridi	c Sangakkara b Perera	75	3	4	65
Sarfraz Ahmed	lbw b Prasanna	10	0	0	17
S Ajmal	lbw b Fernando	20	0	1	37
U Gul	b Malinga	7	0	0	13
Aizaz Cheema	not out	3	0	0	9
Extras		10
Total	All Out, 49.3 overs	200
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-57, 3-62, 4-69, 5-71, 6-97, 7-120, 8-181, 9-191, 10-200

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Malinga	9.3	0	38	1
Perera	10	1	36	1
Fernando	10	3	26	3
Mendis	9	0	40	2
Prasanna	10	1	55	2
Dilshan	1	0	3	0

SRI LANKA 1ST INNINGS

Batsman		Runs	6s	4s	Balls
W U Tharanga	c Khan b Aizaz Cheema	16	0	3	13
T Dilshan	c Ahmed b Aizaz Cheema	11	0	2	21
K C Sangakkara	b Afridi	58	0	6	103
L D Chandimal	b Hafeez	11	0	2	19
Jayawardene	c Hafeez b Afridi	55	1	2	87
A D Mathews	c Ahmed b Ajmal	0	0	0	4
B M A J Mendis	lbw b Afridi	2	0	0	7
N L T C Perera	c Akmal b Afridi	7	0	1	11
S Prasanna	c&b Afridi	0	0	0	1
S L Malinga	lbw b Ajmal	4	0	0	6
C R D Fernando	not out	0	0	0	1
Extras		10
Total	All Out, 45.2 overs	174
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-37, 3-53, 4-155, 5-156, 6-161, 7-168, 8-168, 9-174, 10-174

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Gul	6	0	19	0
Aizaz Cheema	8	0	48	2
Hafeez	8	1	23	1
Malik	5	1	17	0
Ajmal	9	1	29	2
Afridi	9.2	0	35	5