da apostaganha： Colombo’s residents, who are enduring daily power cuts because of thedwindling water supplies in the up country reservoirs, may have beendelighted, but the final day of Pakistan A’s tour proved to be anticlimaxas heavy rains forced the abandonment
da cassino online： Charlie Austin04-Jul-2001Colombo’s residents, who are enduring daily power cuts because of thedwindling water supplies in the up country reservoirs, may have beendelighted, but the final day of Pakistan A’s tour proved to be anticlimaxas heavy rains forced the abandonment of the game, leaving the three-matchseries shared at one all.Sri Lanka had looked to be cruising towards a series victory at lunch afteran efficient performance in the field and some pretty lousy cricket byPakistan, who were eventually bowled out for 172 on a fine batting wicket.Heavy rains then delayed the start of their run chase by 105 minutes.The complicated permutations of Duckworth-Lewis gave Pakistan a faint hopeof victory when the target was stiffened. Sri Lanka now needed 130 runs from29 overs and they looked to be cruising towards that, on 97 for two from 20overs, when the weather made its final interruption.Sri Lanka, who had made four changes to the side that lost on Monday, givinga chance to the other members of the 16-man squad, bowled efficiently andfielded impressively, running out three Pakistani batsmen.Pakistan had started well as Imran Farhat (13) and Faisal Naved (33) added29 for the first wicket in 41 balls. Even after Imran Farhat had clippedlazily to Bandaratillake behind square, they proceeded smoothly, and were 64for one after 17 overs.Sri Lanka’s spinners and fielders then got to work. Samaraweera had FaisalNaved caught at square leg and Taufiq Umar (24) was run out by a divingChamara Silva, after a poor call by Hasan Raza (26), who sensibly wore ahelmet today after his injury scare on Monday.Hasan reacted positively to the dismissal of Taufiq, who had been battingsolidly, lofting Samaraweera for six. He was, however, caught behind soonafter off Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, finally given a chance after aninexplicable wait on the sidelines.When Misbah-ul-Haq was also run out the innings crumbled. In fact, the lastseven wickets fell for just 51 runs.Sri Lanka were packed full of batting – their number ten, NiroshanBanadaratillake, had scored a wonderful half-century against England a fewmonths ago – and unsurprisingly came out all guns blazing.Gunawardene (14), of course, needs no second invitation to throw his railwaysleeper of a bat at the ball. He added 35 in 35 balls with Upeka Fernandobefore edging behind. Fernando (26) was then well caught at mid off to leaveSri lanka 56 for two.The need for quick runs finally forced some fluency of Kumar Sangakkara(28*) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (24*) and they looked to be well in controlwhen rain curtailed play.
