Rawalpindi, First ODI, Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 6 runs
Rawalpindi ; (Asghar Ali Mubarak) Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 6 runs in the first one-day match after an exciting match, Salman Ali Agha was declared the player of the match, Haris Rauf took 4 wickets for 61 runs for Pakistan, Faheem Ashraf and Naseem Shah took 2 wickets each.
In the match played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, the Sri Lankan team could only score 293 runs for 9 wickets in the allotted 50 overs in pursuit of a target of 300 runs. All-rounder Salman Ali Agha scored a magnificent unbeaten century against the Sri Lankan bowling line.
Salman Ali Agha scored a century off 83 balls with the help of 9 fours. He returned to the pavilion with 105 runs not out off 87 balls, this is his second century in ODI cricket. Mohammad Nawaz, who made a partnership of 66 runs with Salman Ali Agha for the sixth wicket, remained not out after scoring 36 runs. Among the other players,
Hussain Talat with 62, Fakhar Zaman with 32 and Babar Azam with 29 runs were the prominent batsmen, while Saim Ayub scored 6 and Mohammad Rizwan scored 5 runs. Sri Lankan bowler Winanduhsaranga sent 3 Pakistani batsmen to the pavilion for 54 runs. In the first match of the 3-match series,
Sri Lanka had won the toss against Pakistan and decided to field. Speaking on the occasion of the toss, national team captain Shaheen Shah Afridi had said that if we had won the toss, we would have fielded, we will try to do well in this series as well as in the previous series.
Sri Lankan captain Cherith Asalanka said that we will try to play well in the series. Pakistan playing XI includes Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan,
Salman Ali Agha, Hussain Talat, Muhammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf. It should be remembered that the second ODI will be played on November 13 and the third on November 15. Federal Interior Minister and Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Mohsin Naqvi,
while inspecting the security arrangements at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, said that the Sri Lankan cricket team has been given state guest status. Federal Interior Minister and Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi reviewed the security arrangements made for the ongoing Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match at the stadium in detail.
On this occasion, Mohsin Naqvi said that the Sri Lankan cricket team has been given state guest status, no compromise will be made on the security of the visiting team.
The Chairman PCB said that peace and stability as well as the promotion of sports and other activities are our common goal.
It should be noted that this visit has been made at a time when 12 people were martyred and 27 injured in a suicide blast on a police vehicle outside a courthouse in the G-11 area of Islamabad this afternoon.
