Who says Pakistan is not a contender of the world cup.Pakistan proved itself as a dangerous team.Good batting from Misbah and Veteran Yunis khan and fabulous bowling of Afridi and Akthar won the match for Pakistan.At the packed house of R Premadasa stadium,colombo pak won the toss and elected to bat.Sehzad and Hafeez gave pak a rapid start,but suddenly the runrate slowed down.But Misbah and Yunis played planned executed innings.Yunis made 72 before mishitting to fine leg.Misbah started slowly but made 83 notout.SL seamers are tottally flawless.But Murali bowled really well at the batting power play giving just 4 runs off 2 overs.Pak posted a defendable total of 277/7. In the chase Srilanka was little slow.Akthar was at his best bowling at 145 kmph.Tharanga drived to Afridi off Hafeez after scoring 33.Dilshan made 41.Shahid Afridi produced another brilliant figure of 4/34.Chamara Silva started slowly but at a time he threatened to take the match away,but he was trapped and stumped by Rehman after making 57.Kulashekhra thrashed some good shots but they were just 11 runs short the target.
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