Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 11 runs

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 11 runs in the in group ‘A’ match of the World Cup, playing on R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Following the target of 278 host side can just score 266 runs. Shining once again Afridi took 4 wickets. Misbah-ul-Haq scored unbeatable 83 runs.
Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first. Both openers Ahmed Shehzad and Muhammad Hafeez were looking confident but on the total of 28, Shehzad went back to pavilion after scoring 13 runs, Sangakkara took his catch behind the wicket on the ball of Perera. New batsman Kamran Akmal played sensiable cricket along with Hafeez and added 48 runs in the second wicket partnership. In 14^th over Hafeez turned back on 31. On the total of 105, three wicket of Pakistan fell when Kamran Akmal wanted to hit a six to Herath coming out from the crease but he couldn’t play the ball and Sangakkara made not mistake in stumping.
Middle-order Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq countiuned to move the score responsibly and pick their side’s total to 213, on this spot Younis gave the catch to Jayawardene, Herath was the bowler, he scored 72 runs on 76 balls. Umar Akmal goes after adding his 10 runs to his team’s total. Boom Boom Afridi scored 16 runs on 12 balls with the help of 3 boundaries. At the end of limited number of overs the final score of green shirts was 277/7. Misbah-ul-Haq was unbeatable on 83. Rangana Herath picks 2 wickets.

Following the target, the host side took a slow but confident start. The first wicket of Eye-Landers fell on 76 when Upul Tharanga went back to pavilion after scoring 33 runs. After the gap of 12 runs Tillakaratne Dilshan bowled out by Afridi, he scored 41 runs. The danger man Mahila Jayawardene was taken by Shoaib Akhtar on just 1 run. Thailan Samaravera scored a single run. After losing 4 wickets on 96 runs Captain Kumar Sangakkara played a sensiable innings along with Chamara Silva and added 74 runs in the fifth wicket partnership. The innings of captain ended when he was one less then his fifty.
On the other end Chamara Silva continued to struggle, but his resistance finished on 57 runs. Angelo Mathews bowled out by Afridi after scoring 8.  At the end of specified number of overs the final score of Sri Lankan team was 266.
Shahid Afridi, who picks 5 wickets in the first match, once again giving his best performance got 4 wickets. Shoaib Akhtar was the second prominent bowler with 2 wickets.