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

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Asalanka goes back over Afridi's head off the third ball of the 39th. Pick the bones out of that one, Afridi goes outside off with a slow one and Asalanka smahes it. Sri Lanka now need 22 off 21.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Dasun Shanaka has picked out the fielder at long on, Iftikhar Ahmed has got his third. He goes for a slong sweep but it has come off the bottom end of the bat. Nawaz takes a low catch and doesn't really celebrate, leading to some doubt over whether he had actually caught it but it was out. 

Shanaka c Mohammad Nawaz b Iftikhar Ahmed 2 (4), Sri Lanka 222/5, need 30 to win in 26

Well, well, well, this has become a real potboiler now. The required rate has gone above SL's current rate.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: This is the last thing Pakistan want now. Asalanka cuts the second ball of Afridi's over to point. Shadab Khan, probably Pakistan's best fielder is there, Asalanka clearly not looking to go anywhere by the time Shadab shapes up for a throw but he lets one rip anyway. He misses the stumps and there is no one to back him up, the batters run 2, they now need 34 to win off 33.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Well are Sri Lanka feeling the pressure here? A couple of very tight runs, in both cases a better throw would have got the batter.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Kusal Mendis denied a century! He stands his ground though and the umpires go upstairs to see if this was a legitimate catch. Length ball floated in by Iftikhar, it gets a leading edge as Mendis looks to clip this on side. Haris leaps forward from extra cover and takes a good catch diving forward. Replays show that he clearly had fingers underneath the ball. Mendis out in the 90s for the second time in this tournament.

Mendis c Mohammad Haris b Iftikhar Ahmed 91 (87) , Sri Lanka 210/4 in 35.1 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis moves into the 90s. He slog sweeps the last ball of the 34th from Iftikhar over midwicket.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Rizwan dropped Asalanka right after that six. Iftikhar had got it to straighten off a length on off stump, Asalanka got a thick edge on it but Rizwan couldn't hold on. Mendis on 81 off 79, Asalanka on 11 off 10. Sri Lanka need 58 to win from 60.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Iftikhar sends one in the slot and Asalanka sends him over deep midwicket.

Iftikhar Ahmed had changed the tide with the bat, has he changed the tide with the ball as well? He comes down the track and is deceived by the lack of turn, Rizwan does the rest.

Samarawickrama st Mohammad Rizwan b Iftikhar Ahmed 48 (51), Sri Lanka 177/3 in 29.4 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Partnership between Sadeera and Mendis is now on 98 off 94. Mendis has scored 75 in as many, Sadeera on 46 off 47. This is now running away from Pakistan, Sri Lanka need 77 to win in 78.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Samarawickrama seems fine now. The ball had hit him on the visor just above the grill. That helmet is changed, Shadab bowling to Mendis now from the other end.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: He is in real pain here, takes his helmet off and crouches down on the ground. Afridi is the bowler and his bouncer hits Samarawickrama flush on the head. The Pakistani fielders and Mendis converge around him before the physio and his team come on the field. Sri Lanka 167/2 in 28 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: The reintroduction of Afridi hasn't worked and Shadab has been brought back but the singles and doubles continue to flow for Sri Lanka. They need 92 to win now from 90. 

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis and Samarawickrama have taken the wind out of Pakistan's sails and they need a change pronto. In comes their premier pacer but he himself had leaked runs in his first spell. Conundrums conundrums.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis hits it square of the wicket and that is Sri Lanka's first boundary in nearly six overs. But this is very much pressure on Pakistan, Samarawickrama and Mendis were collecting runs between the wickets. At the end of that over, Sri Lanka are 145/2 in 24, need 107 to win off 108 balls. Mendis on 60 off 59, Samarawickrama on 32 off 33.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis on 50 off 48, Samarawickrama on 29 off 26. This stand has brought 55 runs in 47 balls now. Sri Lanka need 120 to win in 126 balls.

Third half century in four matches for Mendis, 25th overall in ODI cricket. He has been in good form in this tournament. This one has come in just 47 balls.

It has come in just 42 balls, despite the fact that there haven't been too many boundaries and that is because both players have been rotating strike for fun. 

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Shadab Khan taken off the attack and Iftikhar Ahmed has been brought on in his place. This is not good for Pakistan at all, their premier spinner has hardly been at his best throughout this tournament and he has been woeful today.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Very short and wide again from Shadab and Samarawickrama has punished him again. He moves to 22 off 18, Mendis on 38 off as many.

 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: He beat Mendis off the third delivery with a delivery that spun sharply. Then he goes for a full toss that Mendis slogs over deep midwicket for a four.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Short and wide from Shadab, which is anything but what the field has been set for, Samarawickrama stays back and cuts it hard past point. Easy runs and poor bowling from Shadab.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Kusal Mendis is on 31 off 33, Sadeera Samarawickrama has scored 7 in 5. The run rate has gone below the required rate but only just so. Sri Lanka now need some patient, responsible batting and they will reach that territory where the fielding side might start getting desperate.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Shadab gets Nissanka! Flighted lengthball on middle stump, Nissanka tries to go over the bowler's head and jumps down the track but it came from the bottom of the bat. It was too full and the ball goes right back to the bowler.

Nissanka c & b Shadab Khan 29 (44), Sri Lanka 77/2 in 13.2 overs

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Kusal Mendis on 22 off 24, Nissanka has scored 27 in 40. The spinners continue and the runs have dried up somewhat in the last few overs.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Spinners Nawaz and Shadab have brought the run rate down. Nissanka on 25 off 37, Mendis on 19 off 21.

Sri Lanka's required rate is 5.66 but they are going at 7 at the moment. 13 runs off that over. Mendis has scored 17 in 15 and Nissanka 17 in 25. The Premadasa is absolutely heaving.

 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: A bit lucky as Mendis got a thick inside edge. It rushed behind him to the boundary.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Nissanka once again and this brings up Sri Lanka's 50 in 7.3 overs. Wasim goes short and wide for the second ball of the eighth, Nissanka hangs back and slashes it behind point. Then the third ball is sent between point and backward point. Sensational batting from Nissanka.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mohammad Wasim to come in for the eighth. Nissanka on 9 off 21 and Mendis on 13 off as many. A good partnership developing between these two and Sri Lanka are going at the run rate they need to chase this down.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Afridi on the pads again, it is a full toss and Mendis clips it away. Afridi had missed the yorker there, and once again, he pays for it with a boundary.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis on 7 off many balls, Nissanka on 9 off 21. Quite an effort on the boundary off the last ball of that over but the batters ran three and so just one run saved.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Mendis on 4 off 6, Nissanka on 8 off 16. Mendis clipped the second delivery off his pads to the boundary to get off the mark, Shaheen Afridi leaking runs here.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Well Nissanka had nothing for 13 balls but now he has hit two fours off Zaman and is away. The fourth ball is driven brilliantly through covers and then Nissanka drives the next delivery square on the up.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: How about that, Kusal Perera, who had scored 17 off 8 has now been run out. Perera chops it to the offside, Nisanka set off for a single straightaway but Perera hesitates! He has to rush but it's a direct hit from the brilliant Shadab Khan and replays show that he is gone.

Perera run out (Shadab Khan) 17 (8), Sri Lanka 20/1 in 3.2 overs

 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: All of these runs have been scored by Perera off Afridi. He has made 13 in 6 balls while Nissanka has nothing in 12 balls.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Zaman Khan's first over was a maiden but then Perera hits another four off Afridi off the first ball of the second over. Full on the pads, Perera whips it over midwicket.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Live Score: Kusal Perera opened with Pathum Nissanka, instead of Dimuth Karunaratne, and he makes an impact in the first over itself. He first hits a four off the fourth ball of the match and then slaps Afridi over mid-off for the second. For the second over comes Pakistan's own baby Malinga, Zaman Khan on his ODI debut. He replaces the injured Haris Rauf in this squad and it was Haris who gave him his first ODI cap earlier today.