Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 2009, Live Streaming Score
July 12, 2009 – 7:09 am
Two hours of poor batting undid three days of excellent work for Pakistan in the first test in Galle, and they now have the uphill task of needing to win two back-to-back tests to take the series, or win one and draw the other to ensure their record of not losing a series in Sri Lanka remains intact
Sri Lanka has won their last 4 tests at the P Sara Oval stadium, two of them were against Bangladesh.
Their overall record here is six wins and two losses, one of which was against Pakistan.
Sri Lanka (likely) 1 Malinda Warnapura, 2 Tharanga Paranavitana, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan (wk), 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Rangana Herath, 10 Thilan Thushara, 11 Ajantha Mendis.
Pakistan (likely) 1 Salman Butt/ Khurram Manzoor, 2 Shoaib Malik, 3 Younis Khan (capt), 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Kamran Akmal (wk), 7 Fawad Alam/ Abdul Razzaq, 8 Abdur Rauf, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Mohammad Aamer, 11 Saeed Ajmal.
Pitch and conditions
The pitch is hard and has a bit of grass on it, and should have good bounce.
Spinners have done well at this venue, and they can look forward to some assistance from the track from the fourth day onwards.
It has been hot, humid and mostly cloudless over the past three days, but the forecast is rain over the next week.
