28/09Result
1st Test, Sri Lanka tour of United Arab Emirates and Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Sep 28-Oct 2 2017
Sri Lanka won by 21 runs
Player of the Match
Rangana Herath
Rangana HerathSri Lanka
28/09Result
1st Test, Sri Lanka tour of United Arab Emirates and Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Sep 28-Oct 2 2017
Sri Lanka won by 21 runs
Player of the Match
Rangana Herath
Rangana HerathSri Lanka

12.44 pm Time for the post-lunch session. Lakmal to bowl.

wasif raja: "Its not gonna be a walk in the park for Pakistan. Still this is a 50/50 contest."

Arsalan Iqtidar: "So its 136 to win in 63 overs at 2.15 runs per over! Daunting task keeping in mind how this test has progressed. Haha! "

Asher Siddiqui: "Well done Pakistan....Now should not collapse for such a low target !!!! Backing Pakistan for this one... "

12.07 pm Remember how I spoke of slender margins? That was less than three overs ago. I said ten runs and Sri Lanka would believe they're ahead. In under ten minutes, that has completely changed. They talk about experience in this game - a lot. Today's play showed you why. Mistakes from both sides - two dropped catches from Shafiq. And then that shot from Sandakan. They were a moment away from going back in, having worked so hard, and calm their nerves for forty minutes. It wasn't to be.

And in the periphery was lurking Yasir Shah. He's so good at this. Doesn't give you a lot on the best of your days, but show him a vulnerability and you are done. Backed up the best fast bowling spell of the match by Mohammad Abbas and ripped through the lower order.

Scratch anything I said about slender margins. It's 136 to win for Pakistan and they have 63 overs to do it. You better believe they're ahead now. We'll see you soon.

66.5
W
Hasan Ali to Pradeep, OUT, bowled him! Fielding pays dividends. And how. Pradeep doesn't last a ball. Full, swinging in viciously at the stumps and there's not so much as a half-stride from the No. 11. Smashed and Hasan Ali brings out the signature celebration

N Pradeep b Hasan Ali 0 (6m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

talha: "Atlast the highest partnership of this inng has been broken !!"
Aamir: "This is the third dismissal on the last ball of a session in this test."

66.4
1
Hasan Ali to Dickwella, 1 run, offcutter, back of a length and in at middle stump. Walks into the leg side and bunts this through the open point region. Wants to come back for the second but gully has done well to slide and keep that to one. Dickwella at the non-strikers end. Pradeep finishes on a king pair.

SL in UAE and PAK 2017-18 News

Target possible?

146

The lowest target not successfully chased (lost) by Pakistan, against SA in Faisalabad in 1997. They have been set 136 to win this Test.

Azhar's milestone

5000

Runs completed by Azhar Ali in Tests. He has taken 115 innings to do so and is the fourth quickest among eight Pakistan batsmen.

The Abu Dhabi grind

1.90

Scoring rate in the first session of the third day. Only 57 runs were scored from 30 overs, the last-ten before lunch producing just 8 runs.

First in three years

2014

Last time before Chandimal in this Test, a Sri Lanka batsman faced than more than 60 overs (360 balls) in a Test innings - Karunaratne v NZ, Christchurch.

Yasir on top

0

Spinners to take 150 wickets in fewer Test matches than Yasir Shah. Clarrie Grimmett was the previous fastest having taken 28 matches. Yasir is playing his 27th.

Important toss?

1

No. of times teams have lost after having batted first, out of the nine Tests before this in Abu Dhabhi. They have won 4 and drawn 4.