Saturday, February 26, 2011

Pak vs SL : Pakistan hope to down hosts today



ICC Cricket World Cup , Sri Lanka v Pakistan
ODI no. 3109 | 2010/11 season, Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
26 February 2011 - day/night
Teams:
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (captain), Misbah-ul-Haq (vice-captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar.
Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara (captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Matthews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan, Rangana Herath.
Colombo: Fun time is over for Greenshirts. They will have to raise their game to a higher level as they look to conquer Sri Lanka, one of the serious contenders for the World Cup in 2011.
In a sense, this is not make-or-death suit for any team. Even the losing side of the game on Saturday (today) is likely to progress to the quarterfinals.
But then it is also a very important game, as its results could influence the final composition, as Waqar Younis, Pakistan coach aptly noted here on Friday.
Both teams started their World Cup campaign with a bang with Sri Lanka thrashing Canada by 210 runs and Pakistan record 205-Run Victory over Kenya. And I know that it will be much more serious business, as they face here at R Premadasa Stadium in front of more than 30.000 spectators.
Pakistan have won all their six World Cup against Sri Lanka, Kumar Sangakkara but is confident that his team is firepower to reverse the flow. "I was not really aware of that history, so yes, maybe it's time to change that now, hopefully tomorrow, if we can make our fundamentals are better than Pakistan, I think we have very good chances, captain of Sri Lanka said here on Friday.
But Sangakkara admitted that his team is wary of a dangerous Pakistan. "I think they got all 11 players a team can do what they have a great batting line operation is well balanced - a good pace and good spin, so that against them, you just have to be mentally strong and absorb more pressure as you can keep and competing with them, because you can make them crack under pressure at a particular situation, so you should be in the game to those situations come up, "said an experienced player with a bat.
Sangakkara believes that both teams are almost evenly matched in the bowling department. "I think that both sides have good pace and good spin. I think it was a huge step forward for us really have a good boilers quickly into our team, we have guys who bowl a 140, we've got guys that might swing and seam, and I think it will be a fight between two teams who are happy are very keen competition, and whichever side can do whatever their discipline better than others are likely to come out on top.

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