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Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 2023
Result · Jul 16 2023, Sun - 09:45 AM (IST)
SRI LANKA312, 279
PAKISTAN461, 133/6
Pakistan won by 4 wickets
CRR:4.05
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2023 |
| Date: | Jul 16 2023, Sun - 09:45 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), Nishan Madushka, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera Samarawickrama (wk), Ramesh Mendis, Prabath Jayasuriya, Kasun Rajitha, Vishwa Fernando |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Abdullah Shafique, Imam ul-Haq, Shan Masood, Babar Azam (c), Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel, Agha Salman, Noman Ali, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed, Shaheen Afridi |
- Sri Lanka have won just one of their last four men’s Tests against Pakistan (D1 L2), however, that win did come in the most recent such fixture between the two sides in July 2022; that game also took place at the Galle International Stadium and the Lions won by 246 runs.
- Sri Lanka have won four of their last five men’s Test matches at the Galle International Stadium (L1); their only loss in this period was a four-wicket defeat against Pakistan in July 2022.
- Pakistan are winless in their last six men’s Test matches (D2 L4); the last time the Shaheens went longer without a win was a stretch of seven games between December 2018 and December 2019 (D1 L6).
- Sri Lanka are unbeaten in their last five multi-game bilateral men’s Test series at home (W3 D2); the last time the Lions went on a longer such run was a stretch of eight series (W6 D2) from July 2006 to December 2010.
- Since the start of 2022 in men’s Test matches, no team has scored a higher percentage of their runs from singles than Sri Lanka (32%) and Pakistan (31%).
- Pakistan and Sri Lanka have logged batting false shot rates of 16.5% and 18.7% respectively in men’s Tests since the start of 2022, the best and second best such rates of all teams in this span.
- Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis (3,938 runs) is 62 away from reaching 4,000 runs in men’s Tests; Mendis has scored a century in each of his last two innings in the format, including his career-best knock of 245.
- Of all batters to face at least 500 balls in men’s Tests since the start of 2022, no one has logged a lower play and miss rate than Pakistan’s Saud Shakeel 3.9%; Sri Lanka’s best player in this category is Angelo Matthews (5.1%)
- Pakistan’s Babar Azam has logged a batting good connection rate of 79.7% in men’s Tests in 2022, the highest such rate of any batter to have faced at least 200 balls in this span in the format.
- Sri Lanka’s Prabath Jayasuriya has taken 40.3% of his team’s wickets when he’s featured in men’s Tests since the start of 2022, the highest such aggregate of any player to have bowled in more than five innings in this span; Pakistan’s Abrar Ahmed (39.4%) is ranked second on this list.
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