HYDERABAD: Sri Lanka won the toss, chose to bat first and put up a huge 344 against Pakistan in their World Cup 2023 match in Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad.
Pakistan have made one change to their playing 11 by replacing Fakhar Zaman with Abdullah Shafique while Sri Lanka have got their injured bowler Maheesh Theekshana back.
LIVE SCORE
SL- 344/9
OVERS 50
MAJOR UPDATES and VIDEOS
Overs 1.4 Hasan Ali removes Perera
6.5 Imam-ul-Haq drops Nissanka
17.2 Shadab Khan removes Nissanka
26.1 Kusal Mendis reaches his 100 in 65 balls
28.5 Hasan Ali removes Kusal Mendis
30.1 Hasan Ali removes Alasanka
41.1 Nawaz removes Dhananjaya de Silva
46.3 Shaheen Afridi removes Dasun Shanaka
47.6 Hasan Ali removes Samarawickrama
49.2 Haris Rauf removes Theekshana
49.6 Haris Rauf removes Wellalage
PAKISTAN PLAYING XI
IMAM-UL-HAQ
ABDULLAH SHAFIQUE
BABAR AZAM- C
MOHAMMAD RIZWAN
SAUD SHAKEEL
IFTIKHAR AHMED
SHADAB KHAN
MOHAMMAD NAWAZ
HASSAN ALI
SHAHEEN SHAH AFRIDI
HARIS RAUF
SRI LANKA PLAYING XI
PATHUM NISSANKA
KUSAL PERERA
KUSAL MENDIS
SADEERA SAMARAWICKRAMA
CHARITH ASALANKA
DHANANJAYA DE SILVA
DASUN SHANAKA- C
DUNITH WELLALAGE
MAHEESH THEEKSHANA
DILSHAN MADUSHANKA
MATHEESHA PATHIRANA
Though Pakistan enjoy an impeccable record against Sri Lanka in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup since 1975 defeating them on all seven occasions, the Islanders have recently outdone them. They lost a last-ball thriller in Colombo in the One-Day iteration of the Asia Cup last month and faced back-to-back defeats in the tournament’s T20 edition last year, with the last of the two matches being the final.
Babar Azam’s side entered the mega-event as the number two ranked ODI side and enjoys the best win/loss ratio of 2.400 in this World Cup cycle.
Pakistan missed out on a semi-final spot in the 2019 iteration of the World Cup because of a lower net run-rate to New Zealand, who ended up as runners-up. The team’s best performance came in the 1992 edition when they lifted the trophy at the MCG after defeating England. Pakistan featured in the final of the 1999 edition and reached semi-finals in 1979, 1983, 1987, and 2011.
A-Sports is telecasting the World Cup 2023 live on TV in Pakistan, alternatively you can watch the livestream on ARY ZAP.
