Sri Lanka is not only inexperienced on account of the many withdrawals from this tour, and they even have such a poor recent T20I record that they need to go through the qualifiers next year to play within the T20 world cup. And yet, they have now well won a series against the top-ranked T20I facet in the world. The margin on this occasion was thirty-five runs - Pakistan was fired by the top of the nineteenth over. While Rajapaksa had headlined the batting - a 94-run third-wicket stand with Shehan Jayasuriya forming the spine of the innings - Nuwan Pradeep took four for 25, 1st derailing a then wiping out the chase. Cricket Online Live The most dramatic over of the game was delivered by Wanindu Hasaranga. However, United Nations agency was hit for six by Ahmed Shehzad and would then take three wickets off the next four balls, as well as that of Sarfaraz Ahmed, who was batting well till that time.

He was measured for a few overs then, however, cut loose once more in the eleventh over, launching Shadab Khan for successive leg-side sixes, before reaching his period of the 31st ball he two-faced. Cricket Online Live The most audacious shots of the evening came against Mohammed Hasnain, who was often breaching 140kph. Again off consecutive balls, Rajapaksa made space within the ordinal over and thumped the quick bowler over the off facet - the first of these two sixes sailing over deep extra-cover, the second going a touch squarer.