Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Highlights, Asia Cup Super 4: SL win thriller, to face India in final

By Rohit Mundayur

Sep 15, 2023, 06:18:32 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Highlights: Charith Asalanka scored 49 in 47 and just about took SL over the line in a match that swung both ways towards the end.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Highlights:

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Highlights: Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by two wickets via DLS method in a super four match to secure their place in the final of the Asia Cup here on Thursday. Mohammad Rizwan (86 not out) and Iftikhar Ahmed (47) put up a 108-run stand to steer Pakistan to a commanding 252 for 7 after rain reduced the match to 42-overs a side contest. However, Kusal Mendis (91) led a valiant batting display alongside Charith Asalanka (49 not out) and Sadeera Samarawickrama (48) as Sri Lanka overhauled the target in 42 overs. Sri Lanka will take on India in final on Sunday. Earlier, opener Abdullah Shafique (52 off 69 balls) shared a 64-run stand with skipper Babar Azam (29) after opting to bat in the crucial fixture. But it was Rizwan and Iftikhar who provided the final flourish, taking Pakistan across the 250-run mark. For Sri Lanka, young pacer Matheesha Pathirana (3/64) was the most successful bowler....Read More

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Sep 14, 2023, 21:28:43 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Sri Lanka need to chase down 252

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: There you go, Sri Lanka's target is the exact same score as what Pakistan made, as opposed to being one more than that. Before the rain break, Pakistan had scored 130 runs at a run rate of 4.7 in 27.4 ivers. After the rain break, they scored 122 runs at a run rate of 8.60 in 14.2 overs.

Sep 14, 2023, 21:23:00 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 252/7 in 42 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rizwan with a four to end the innings. He ends unbeaten on 82 off 73 balls and may have almost single-handedly given Pakistan a chance to make it to the final here. Pakistan have scored 102 runs in the last 10 overs and this might go a long way in helping them get a good target to defend. Remember that Sri Lanka's target could be different because of the fact that it was a 45 overs a side contest when Pakistan had started their innings.

Sep 14, 2023, 21:19:55 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: OUT! Stunning catch behind the wicket!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Full outside off from Madushan, Shadab gets a thick edge. Mendis times his dive perfectly and makes sure he has the ball when he hits the ground as well.

Shadab Khan c †Mendis b Pramod Madushan 3 (3), Pakistan 243/7 in 41.2 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 21:17:15 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: GONE! That's it for Iftikhar

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pathirana gets three. It comes off the toe end of the bat and goes to mid on where Shanak makes no mistake with the catch. A 108-run partnership off just 78 balls has been broken.

Iftikhar c Shanaka b Pathirana 47 (40), Pakistan 238/6 in 40.3 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 21:05:10 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Theekshana hobbles off

Pakistan are 221/5 in 39 overs. Theekshana finishes that over and is almost carried off the field by the physio. In fact he is having to be helped up the stairs to the dressing room by three players. This is not looking good at all for Sri Lanka.

Sep 14, 2023, 21:01:55 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! What a shot from Rizwan!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Theekshana sends the fourth ball of the 39th at a length and Rizwan moves away from the line of the ball. He then whallops it inside out over extra cover.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:54:09 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! 200 up for Pakistan

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Brilliant drive off the first ball of the 38th from Pathirana. Rizwan moves to 65.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:44:41 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 184/5 in 35 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Theekshana limps through that over and well, he had got Iftikhar LBW with the last ball. The umpire had said no and Sri Lanka chose not to take the review. Replays show that there would have been three reds. Theekshana went off and is getting some strapping on his leg, he screams and punches the ground when he sees the replay of that decision on the big screen.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:38:19 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 178/5 in 34 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rizwan on 51 off 49, Iftikhar on 16 off 20. Mahesh Theekshana had to walk off the field after trying to stop the boundary from Rizwan. He now returns to bowl the next over but he is limping.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:37:17 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! Fifty for Rizwan

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: It has come in just 49 balls. Rizwan has been a player transformed since the resumption.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:35:13 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX! Biggie from Rizwan

Wellalage bowling his last over, the third ball is in the arc for Rizwan and the Pakistan wicketkeeper slams over deep midwicket. He moves to 47.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:33:40 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 168/5 in 33 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Two dot balls to end that over but the damage was done. "Come on!" shouts a Sri Lanka fielder after the last ball goes for a dot. This was a cagey innings before the rain and now it has become high octane stuff.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:31:26 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX OFF THE FREE HIT!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Madushan gets it on the mark and Iftikhar just smashes it back over his head past the boundary. 18 runs off four balls in this over.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:29:54 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Madushan losing the plot!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: The buzzer went off for no ball for the fourth delivery of the 33rd. The free-hit delivery is wide outside off and then the follow up is also wide outside off. He loads up to bowl it a third time and....

Sep 14, 2023, 20:26:28 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Madushan brought back and his first delivery is dismissed by Rizwan from his presence. It fies over deep midwicket.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:24:53 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 150/5 in 32 overs

A four from Iftikhar over extra cover off the second ball of the 32nd over from Wellalage took Pakistan to 150 but no runs after that in the over. Iftikhar Ahmed 10 off 16, Rizwan 32 off 40.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:17:59 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 138/5 in 30 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Just 12 overs left. Pakistan have two aggressive batters in the middle now and they have to make it count.

Sep 14, 2023, 20:11:50 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: 28 overs gone, Pakistan 133/5

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rizwan is on 22 off 30, Iftikhar Ahmed on three off 2 as Theekshana completes his sixth over.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:59:15 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Match to restart at 8.32pm

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: It has now reduced to a 42 overs a side contest. Pakistan really have to accelerate now as it is pretty certain that Sri Lanka's target will be readjusted now.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:55:38 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Waqar Younis on Pathirana in red ball cricket

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: MS Dhoni had said that Sri Lanka should avoid getting Pathirana in red ball cricket at the moment and Waqar says that there might be some wisdom in that as Pathirana's action puts so much pressure on his body. “(His action is) like a javelin thrower's, so much stress on his body. He needs to be preserved, he is an asset in white ball cricket. His bouncers are brilliant, he is a wicket-taker. Lasith Malinga was one, Chaminda Vaas was one and he is doing that job.”

Sep 14, 2023, 19:52:33 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: The covers coming off now

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Ok then, the rain has eased off and the outfield covers are going off now. Continuing to look good at the moment.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:41:59 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: The rain intensifies

Well, when has the rain gods ever stayed away once they arrive here. The ground staff had taken the covers off but now they come and so do a number of more that will cover the outfield as well. Iftikhar Ahmed was ready to walk on when the rain had come. It is he and Rizwan who will take guard for Pakistan, if they can face any more overs in this innings.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:32:56 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Covers on!

As Nawaz walked off, the ground staff started coming on with those covers. A slight drizzle has come and they are taking no risks here. But we could have an immediate restart here. Pakistan ar 130/5 in 27.4 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 19:31:03 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: OUT! Nawaz goes

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: That's it for the counter-attack

Nawaz b Theekshana 12 (12), Pakistan 130/5 in 27.4 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 19:28:25 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 128/4 in 27 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Nawaz on 10 off 8, Rizwan on 22 off 30 balls. Nawaz has hit two fours in his short innings and Pakistan have a little surge of runs in the last three overs.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:24:11 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Just about beats the fielder in the deep! Full on off from Dhananjaya, Nawaz launches it in the air down the ground. Wellalage is there at long-on, runs in to his left and dives and the ball goes through his hands to the boundary. Not exactly a catching chance, it would have been an absolute stunner if he had taken it, but Nawaz has helped Pakistan put up a bit of a counter attack now.

Sep 14, 2023, 19:16:09 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 110/4 in 25 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Would have been the halfway point of an innings in normal circumstances but in the case of this match, that point was reached during the fifth ball of the 23rd. Pakistan are in a real soup here, can Nawaz and Rizwan bail them out?

Sep 14, 2023, 19:11:21 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: GONE! Another for Pathirana

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Haris has spooned it right back to the bowler. Pace off from Pathirana for the last ball of the 24th, Haris is early on the drive and chips it back to the bowler who holds it with both hands and celebrates.

Haris c & b Pathirana 3 (9), Pakistan 108/4 in 24 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 19:07:34 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 103/3 in 23 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: A complete shift in momentum now. Sri Lanka in total control. Rizwan continues to look jumpy, he has scored 12 off 18 while Mohammad Haris is at the other end on 1 off 5.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:58:19 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: OUT! Shafique falls

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pathirana has struck with the set batter. He digs it in short, Shafique pulls it but the ball doesn't have the wings to clear the man at deep square leg.

Shafique c Pramod Madushan b Pathirana 52 (69), Pakistan 100/3 in 21.4 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 18:54:04 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Maiden ODI fifty for Shafique!

A single off the next ball and a very good half century from Shafique, his first in ODI cricket. What a find this 23-year-old is turning out to be for Pakistan. He averages 50.83 with four centuries in 14 Tests and now makes the difference after being promoted to the opening spot. His half century has come up in 65 balls.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:53:05 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX! Shafique gets to 49

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Dhananjaya de Silva brought in for the 21st over, Shafique charges down the track to him in the second ball and sends it over the bowler's head for his second six of the match.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:45:22 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 83/2 in 18 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Shafique on 40 off 53, Rizwan, who has looked quite jumpy thus far, is on 7 off 9. Wellalage and Theekshana alternating now and Pakistan are in trouble, remember that this is a 45-over game.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:35:12 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: GONE! Wellalage gets Babar!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Wellalage adds Babar to his list of big name wickets. Extraordinary delivery this. Tossed up on off, Babar comes forward but the ball turns away from him sharply. Mendis collects and whips off the bails. Babar's backfoot had come off the crease as he went through with the shot and was not even close to getting it back in when the bails had gone off. Wellalage's five wickets against India included Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, he can now add Babar Azam to that list.

Babar Azam st Mendis b Wellalage 29 (35), Pakistan 73/2 in 16 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 18:33:57 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Has Babar been stumped?

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Wellalage might have struck with the last ball of the 16th over here. Babar prods forward, Mendis picks it up and whips the bails off. The Sri Lankans are celebrating and the umpire goes upstairs.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:24:32 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 68/1 in 14 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Babar and Shafique are bossing the proceedings now. They have put on 59 in 58. Babar is on 27 off 29, Shafique on 34 off 44. Sri Lanka bring back Mahesh Theekshana in a bid to break this stand.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:23:25 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! Oh Babar Azam!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pathirana in the slot once again, this time to Babar. The Pakistan captain comes across and flicks it almost nonchalanty but everything about that shot was so perfect that it ran to the boundary.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:21:42 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! Fifty stand up!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan are 62/1 in 13 overs. Length ball in the slot from Pathirana, Shafique comes forward and crashes that through covers. That ball went so quickly to the boundary that no one on the ground even bothered to move.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:10:30 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 48/1 in 11 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Babar on 18 off, Shafique on 23 off 35. What an intriguing early passage of the game this has been. Sri Lanka have kept Pakistan down but the batters are looking increasingly comfortable. In the midst of all this comes Matheesha Pathirana with his slingers for the 12th over.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:08:20 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: SIX!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Well, well, well, there was a big appeal for LBW last delivery from Wellalage against Shafique and Sri Lanka had reviewed the umpire's decision of not out. It was only the umpire's call that was upheld as the ball was clipping leg stump. Then Shafique jumps off his crease for the next ball and sends it over the bowler's head for a six.

Sep 14, 2023, 18:00:03 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Just 1 run from the over

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 38/1 in 9. Wellalage almost castled Shafique with the third ball of that over.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:55:36 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 35/1 in 8 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Now they are getting somewhere. Babar is on 18 off 17, Shafique on 12 off 20. The run rate has gone up to 4.37. Here comes Dunith Wellalage, the man who ripped India apart with the ball in Sri Lanka's last game and then threatened to snatch a win with the bat.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:53:48 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Fabulous cover-drive from the Pakistan captain. The third ball of the eighth, good length outside off from Shanaka, Babar steps and sends this away on the up. Cover point fielder put in a dive but it was out of his reach.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:48:51 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Madushan with a short of a length delivery for the fourth ball of the seventh, Shafique stands tall and punches it through cover. Brilliant timing there.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:41:33 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 13/1 in 5 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: That boundary from Babar helped take some pressure off Pakistan but they are still very much under the pump here. Dasun Shanaka brings himself on for the sixth over.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:37:28 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: FOUR! Babar is off the mark

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Just brilliant timing from Babar. Madushan goes a bit too straight, Babar clips it between mid-on and mid-wicket.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:34:38 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: GONE! Zaman cleaned up!

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: THAT'S IT! Madushan has rattled the stumps behind Fakhar. An inswinging yorker right on the money, Fakhar's inside edge is beaten and the bails fly everywhere. Madushan fell over in the follow through and then towered above the batter.

Fakhar Zaman b Pramod Madushan 4 (11), Pakistan 9/1 in 4.2 overs

Sep 14, 2023, 17:32:51 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 9/0 in 4 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Both players still very much only settling in. No real attempt at hitting a boundary yet. Shafique gets to 4 off 15, Zaman on 4 off 9.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:29:25 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Pakistan 6/0 in 3 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: A watchful start to say the least from the Pakistan batters. Abdullah Shafique is on 4 off 13 and Fakhar Zaman on 2 off 5.

Sep 14, 2023, 17:24:40 IST

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: First runs on the board

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Fakhar Zaman scores the first runs on the board. A push towards square leg for a single and Pakistan are off the mark in their virtual semi-final against Sri Lanka!

Both openers off the mark in the second over.

Pakistan 2/0 in 2 overs