Hafeez sinks Sri Lanka

It was just a matter of time until Pakistan's system yielded an overwhelming triumph in the arrangement. As their batsmen fit in with the outline they had set down in the first two matches, Pakistan hit their second mammoth score in three innings, to sink Sri Lanka by 113 runs.

Mohammad Hafeez was again the designer of the triumph, moving from stable at the beginning to brilliant at the completion on his path to a profession best 140 not out off 136 balls. Accompanying torrid arrangement against South Africa, Hafeez has happened upon an approach that has gotten a particular change fortune and lit his group's way to top-request unwavering quality too. He had hit stand out four in his first 36 balls at the pleat, however in an enraged completion he walloped seven fours and a six off his last 26 balls, heading Pakistan's loot of 105 in the last 10 overs, and the group score to 326 for 5.

Tillakaratne Dilshan recovered familiarity at the highest point of Sri Lanka's innings to cruise to his sixth score over fifty in the last eight Odi innings, yet Umar Gul's return nine months later repairing his knee saturated a venomous edge to the Pakistan assault, especially with the new ball. Gul struck twice in his second over to bind Sri Lanka, yet despite the fact that the guests undermined resurgence, no pair could oppose Pakistan for long. They were astounded out in the 45th, with the obliged run-rate having glided up to the early twenties.

They may have had fewer to pursue had Lasith Malinga clutched a straightforward risk at long-on off Hafeez in the eighteenth over. Hafeez's advancement from that point was as luxurious as the first stage of his thump was adamant. Holes square of the wicket were his staple, however on an alternate dynamite batting track that uncovered Sri Lanka's failure to enter, he was dauntless, yet ascertained in assault too. He utilized his feet to hit the spinners over the leg side as a matter of schedule, and he jumped on inexhaustible poor balls from Sri Lanka's allround crease bowlers.

Ahmed Shehzad had been the first to hit out, and the pair manufactured a 162-run remained for the second wicket, at the finish of which a score in overabundance of 300 appeared an inescapability.

This, after they Pakistan made their most steady begin of the arrangement, much obliged in huge part to the development Nuwan Kulasekara produced with the new ball. Stand out border had been hit in the first seven overs, which yielded just 18 runs. In that time Pakistan had additionally lost Sharjeel Khan to Kulasekara, with the score on 2.

Pakistan had been 62 for 1 after 15 overs, however Shehzad and Hafeez scored 100 off the following 95 balls, finding simple runs into the outfield and peppering the long-on ropes with aplomb. Shehzad arrived at his fifty in 57 balls, and when Lasith Malinga ran him out for 81 in the 31st over, Pakistan was scoring at well over five runs an over.

Sohaib Maqsood showcased ability and inability in equivalent measure throughout his run-a-ball 21, that offered fine strokes however a foolish endeavor for a third six in the 39th over. After Maqsood fell, Misbah-ul-Haq was the improbable wellspring of a cameo, as Pakistan tried to procure the profits of their robustness in the first 75% of the innings. His 26-ball 40 emphasized three fours and two sixes - all in all off the seamers - while Hafeez excessively kicked up a recently climbing run rate into overdrive.

Sri Lanka have been unoriginal with the ball all around the arrangement, and yorkers at the end of the day appeared their main defence against demise over animosity. Yet even that ploy may have yielded effects, had they figured out how to uncover the blockhole with satisfactory normality. Malinga was the main quick bowler to fulfill with an economy rate under six, as Hafeez, and later Umar Akmal devoured unremarkable lengths at the peak. Kulasekara was the most noticeably bad guilty party. In the wake of having surrendered just 19 from his first six overs, he surrendered 48 from his last four.

Sri Lanka's inconveniences were aggravated by the two early Gul strikes. They required seniors Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara to post a triple-figure remained to set the pursuit fittingly on track. Productive however they have been as one in the course of the most recent two years, they separated ways much excessively right off the bat this event. Sangakkara pulled Junaid Khan to square leg with the score on 44, and it was a steep request Dilshan to lead a heist after that. He still swashbuckled his route to 59 off 62, preceding Shahid Afridi played him.

Gul's punctual strikes had additionally permitted Misbah to hold Saeed Ajmal's overs until the 25th over, and Hafeez until the 28th. Together they stifled out what stayed of the safety. Dinesh Chandimal got his third begin of the arrangement, in to a degree unconvincing form, yet got out attempting to toil Hafeez.

Angelo Mathews started gradually and after that tonked a couple of enormous blows as the obliged rate ballooned, however wickets proceeded to tumble to turn at the flip side, and Sri Lanka's chances wore dainty. Gul knocked down some pins Malinga to complete with 3 for 19, and Pakistan took a 2-1 lead in the arrangement.

Mathews had won the hurl and played first on a marvelous batting strip once more, dreading the late-nighttime dew that had hampered Sri Lanka's bowlers in the Twenty20 arrangement. He might reconsider that system after dew neglected to materialise in each of the Odis in this way, similarly as Misbah had anticipated at the throw.