Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Munib: "Ahhh...! Babar's "definitely" is soo soothing." It's a good note to end on. And on that note, end we do. Thank you so, so much for sticking around with us, sharing the entertaining bits and making the duller ones more fun. We'll see you again in Colombo on Thursday. Take care.

"When you win a match, it gives to confidence. All credit to these youngsters for the way they performed," Pakistan skipper Babar Azam says.

"We lost early wickets, and then the way Saud and Agha played totally changed the game. You need that kind of partnership, and that really pleased me. It's not easy to bat in Galle, but the way Saud's playing is outstanding, and I wish him luck for the next game."

"Once we won the toss, we knew how good their fast bowlers are. We needed to see off that opening spell but we lost a few wickets," Dimuth says. "We bowled really well in patches, but then we start leaking runs. Overall, the bowlers did really well, but we dropped a few catches and that cost us. We have to assess what went wrong and come back again." Plenty of praise for Dhananjaya, too. "We need to support him as his fellow batters."

Dhananjaya de Silva gets a Super Flyer award and some kind of hamper for scoring the most boundaries. Yeah, don't ask me what's in the hamper

Saud Shakeel has been awarded the Player of the Match award "I was just trying to build partnerships, be positive and look for runs," he says. "We are skilled in how to play the sweep and reverse sweep shots, and we knew we needed to execute it well. I'm from Karachi and I'm used to playing a lot of spin there."

We'll be back with the presentations shortly.

Rashid Hassan: "Just saw the WTC standings after this match. How many of you want it to be like this till the very end?India V Pak in the final. "

Yadullah: "So the Galle forte is conquered once again. A great start to the new WTC cycle for the Green Army."

11:06am: There are handshakes out in tge middle and hugs in the dressing room as Pakistan seal their first Test win in exactly one year Their last win came in Galle on July 20 2022, and that barren run has finally come to an end

83.1
W
Abrar Ahmed to Rajitha, OUT, spooned straight up to point, and that's the end of the Sri Lankan innings! Caught the bottom part of the bat and just ballooned up for Shan. Pakistan need 131 to win their first Test match since, well, they won their last Test match at this very venue a year to the day ago. Madushka will take you through what remains of the day as I jump off to work on the report

CAK Rajitha c Shan Masood b Abrar Ahmed 5 (3m 3b 1x4 0x6) SR: 166.66

Imran: "How many overs to be deducted from remaining overs for switching of innings? Can Pakistan wrap this up today?" 2 overs. With about an hour to go, and at most an extra half hour, it's a;most impossible this will end today

END OF OVER:
83 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | SL: 279/9

  • Vishwa Fernando0 (6b)
  • Kasun Rajitha5 (2b)
  • Shaheen Shah Afridi13-0-64-2
  • Abrar Ahmed24-5-68-2
82.6
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Shaheen Shah Afridi to MVT Fernando, no run, well wide of off stump, and Vishwa lets it be

Pakistan 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st16Imam-ul-HaqAbdullah Shafique
2nd20Shan MasoodImam-ul-Haq
3rd2Noman AliImam-ul-Haq
4th41Babar AzamImam-ul-Haq
5th43Imam-ul-HaqSaud Shakeel
6th5Sarfaraz AhmedImam-ul-Haq
7th6Imam-ul-HaqAgha Salman