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

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.”

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.

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

 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.

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.

 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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. 

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