෴||Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka 2014 Official Thread||෴|Aug 6- Aug 30|2Test -3ODI|

[Henry L]

Since 2012 1st test against Australia sanga scored least a half century in 13 matches. out of 14 that he played..


Only miss against Pakistan in 2nd test @ dubai..


in this period he scored 1912 runs @ 84. with 7 hundreds & 11 half century's. (so 26 inn's 18n 50 plus)


in this period all other top order batsman played more matches than sanga. but there runs & Ave way less than sanga (ex. warner,cook,clarke,bell,ab etc)


Mathews also done well in this period. with 1406 runs @ 70. with 3 hundreds & 7 half century's. (his Ave also only 2nd to sanga)
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[Henry L]

2 of the best batsmen ever in Test cricket history

 

[Henry L]

Best % of Winning After Scoring a Ton in Tests
(Asian Batsmen)


73% Saeed Anwar 811
68% Inzamam-ul-Haq 17/25
64% Thilan Samaraweera 9/14
50% Kumar Sangakkara 18/36
50% Mahela Jayawardene 17/34
50% Sanath Jayasuriya 7/14
45% Hashan Tillakaratne 5/11
44% Marvan Atapattu 7/16
44% Tillakaratne Dilshan 7/16
43% Javed Miandad 10/23


Minimum 10 Career Hundreds

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[Henry L]

 

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[Henry L]

Most Partnership Runs for 3rd Wicket in Tests


5885 Jayawardene & Sangakkara(100)
5826 Tendulkar & Dravid(123)
3577 Amla & Kallis(56)
3035 Cook & Pietersen(49)
2286 Lara & Sarwan(38)


Most 100+ Partnerships for 3rd Wicket in Tests


18 Jayawardene & Sangakkara
18 Tendulkar & Dravid
12 Cook & Pietersen
10 Amla & Kallis
10 Boon & M Waugh
10 Lara & Sarwan

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[Henry L]

Most runs scored by a visiting batsman at Galle

Younus Khan 393*
Virender Sehwag 391
Marcus Trescothick 226
Brian Lara 218
Mohammed Ashraful 212
Musfiqur Rahim 200

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[Henry L]

Most 50+ Scores in International Career


264 Sachin Tendulkar
217 Ricky Ponting
211 Jacques Kallis
200 Kumar Sangakkara
194 Rahul Dravid
180 Mahela Jayawardene
164 Brian Lara
164 Inzamam-ul-Haq
162 Shivnarine Chanderpaul
145 Sourav Ganguly
145 Sanath Jayasuriya

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[Henry L]

Most Test Runs for Pakistan

8832 Javed Miandad
8829 Inzamam-ul-Haq
7532 YOUNIS KHAN
7530 Mohammad Yousuf
5768 Saleem Malik

Most Test 100s for Pakistan

25 Inzamam-ul-Haq
24 Mohammad Yousuf
24 YOUNIS KHAN
23 Javed Miandad
15 Saleem Malik
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[Henry L]

2nd day of 2nd test starts in about another half an hour

 

[Henry L]

Sl 261/8 (85.1)

 

[Henry L]

Rangana Herath and Dhammika Prasad will bat

 

[Henry L]

SL should get at least another 60 runs to have a fighting chance in this match

 

[Henry L]

Wahab Riaz will start the proceedings

 

[sathsara456]

සුභ පැතුම්..!

 

[Henry L]

Sri Lanka 261 for 8 (Tharanga 92, Junaid 4-69, Wahab 3-66) v Pakistan

Seamers make it Pakistan's day



Six thousand two hundred and twenty one days after earning his Test cap at the nearby Premadasa Stadium, Mahela Jayawardene's life as a Test cricketer came a full circle as he strode out for the last lap at the SSC, his favourite venue. Everything seemed like it was as per the script: bright skies, a firm pitch with nothing for the bowlers, Sri Lanka winning the toss and opting to bat and a solid platform by the openers. The farewell of one Sri Lanka's best batsman couldn't have been planned any better. Except, the Pakistan bowlers had their own agenda.

 

[Henry L]

Jayawardene arrived at the crease for the 251st time, to a guard of honour by the Pakistan team and with the crackle of the firecrackers in the background, 25 minutes before tea. He was 137 short of 3000 runs at the venue but could only shave off four runs in a nervous stay that ended in the first over after tea. In the 16 deliveries that he faced, he was dropped once by the wicketkeeper off Junaid Khan before he was trapped by a sharp offspinner from Saeed Ajmal. He chose not to review, and rightly so.
Misbah-ul-Haq may have patted Jayawardene's back but at that moment, the relief of having dismissed Kumar Sangakkara, their tormentor in Galle, was still writ on Pakistan captain's face. In a rare failure, Sangakkara had been dismissed for 22 as he chopped on a length delivery from Wahab Riaz. He had added 65 for the second wicket with Upul Tharanga, who scored 92, at 4.33 runs an over. Jayawardene's dismissal soon after gave Pakistan the upper hand. The bowlers struck five more times in the third session to take control.

 

[Henry L]

It was a solid effort from Pakistan on a pitch that had nothing for the bowlers. They stuck to disciplined lines and found the odd bit of life. Fortunately for Pakistan, it was one of those days where almost every time the ball did something, it induced a fatal error from the batsmen. That Pakistan had eight wickets by the end of the day despite dropping a few catches was evidence of the number of chances created.
Junaid got the odd ball to move off the pitch, Wahab, playing his first Test in three years, generated hustling pace, Abdur Rehman was disciplined throughout and Ajmal did better than the Mars Rover by finding life where there was none. And that, despite not being able to find a breakthrough in the first 33 overs during which it looked like the pitch was a bowler's graveyard.


Then, Junaid went round the stumps, pushed the compact Kaushal Silva back with a sharp bouncer, before luring the batsman into a loose drive off a widish-length delivery. Sarfraz Ahmed did the rest, taking a sharp chance low to his left, ending the opening stand at 79 - Sri Lanka's best since the 118-run stand in Dhaka in January. Silva, who had picked up five boundaries through point off Wahab, was dismissed for 41.


It was Wahab, though, who caught the biggest fish, picking up the wicket of Sangakkara. Initially a bit wayward, Wahab corrected his radar and posed problems with his pace. He troubled Tharanga with short ones and eventually picked up the opener through a sharp catch by Azhar Ali at short leg.

 

[Henry L]

Till then, Tharanga had looked on course for his second Test century despite not being the most fluent. Junaid induced a couple of false strokes from him in the first over as some deliveries seamed away, he was beaten by Ajmal's turn, survived a stumping chance on 28 and picked up some runs off edges. But he also picked up 12 boundaries, most of them emphatic hits through off. One such shot - a fierce cut off Wahab - helped him cross fifty for the fifth time in Tests.


Ajmal had troubled Tharanga through the innings. In his fourth over, he beat an advancing Tharanga in the air only to see the wicketkeeper miss the stumping. The blame could hardly be laid on Sarfraz, though, because the ball had kicked off the pitch, smacking the keeper on the side of the head for which he required some treatment. The bowler also drew an outside edge off Tharanga but that dropped short of Younis Khan at first slip. But a sign of Tharanga's growing confidence was his two boundaries - both through the covers - off the spinner in the 47th over. However, he was dismissed 10 runs after Jayawardene's departure, leaving the repair job with Angelo Mathews.


But all Mathews could do was watch as Pakistan picked up wickets at regular intervals at the other end. Junaid trapped Niroshan Dickwella and Dilruwan Perera lbw in the first over with the second new ball, the DRS ruling in Pakistan's favour in both cases. Mathews joined the others in the pavilion soon, edging a short of length delivery from Wahab to the keeper, down the leg side. He reviewed, but lost. Strangely, the DRS had not been used during the first 80 overs at all. It was that sort of a day.

 

[Henry L]

• 1001 Runs scored by Angelo Mathews in 2014; he becomes the first Sri Lanka captain to aggregate 1000 or more runs in a calendar year. The previous highest was Mahela Jayawardene's 983 runs as captain in 2006. Mathews is the second batsman this year to score 1000 runs in Tests this year after Kumar Sangakkara.

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