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Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 2022
Result · Jul 16 2022, Sat - 10:00 AM (IST)
SRI LANKA222, 337
PAKISTAN218, 344/6
Pakistan won by 4 wickets
CRR:2.7
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2022 |
| Date: | Jul 16 2022, Sat - 10:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Galle |
| Venue: | Galle International Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Oshada Fernando, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Ramesh Mendis, Maheesh Theekshana, Prabath Jayasuriya, Kasun Rajitha |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Abdullah Shafique, Imam ul-Haq, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Mohammad Nawaz, Yasir Shah, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah |
- Sri Lanka and Pakistan have alternated between victory and loss in the last four multigame bilateral men’s Test series, with Pakistan winning the most recent such series in December 2019; the last time Pakistan visited Lanka for a Test series was in 2015 which they won 2-1.
- Sri Lanka have won two of the last four men’s Test matches against Pakistan (D1 L1); however, Lanka lost the most recent match between the two teams by 263 runs (19 December 2019).
- Sri Lanka have won four of their last five men’s Test matches at home, losing only to Australia earlier this month by 10 wickets; they had failed to register a win in their four such matches prior in this format (D1 L3).
- Pakistan have won their last three matches away from home (excluding United Arab Emirates), the last time they won more matches on the road was in 2011 (4 matches).
- Sri Lanka have a win percentage of 56% at the Galle International Stadium in men’s Test, their best win rate at any venue at home where they have played a minimum of five matches.
- Since the beginning of 2020, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have a catch success percentage of 71 and 75 respectively in men’s Test, only Bangladesh (70%) have registered a poorer rate than the duo.
- Since the beginning of 2018, Babar Azam has topped scorecard in 12 innings for Pakistan in a Test match, the highest amongst all players and five more than the next best.
- Shaheen Shah Afridi needs five more for 100 wickets in Test matches for Pakistan, in doing so he will become the 19th player to achieve this for the country; he has taken five or more wickets twice in his last five Test matches.
- Dimuth Karunaratne needs 95 to score 6,000 runs for Sri Lanka in Test cricket, in doing so he will become the 6th player to achieve this feat for Lanka; however, he has not registered a score of above 90 in his last seven innings.
- Yasir Shah (235) needs two more to become the fifth highest wicket taker for Pakistan in Test cricket, he will eclipse Abdul Qadir who has 236 wickets in this format.
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