Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Fatima Sana
Fatima Sana
30(20) 3x4 - 1x6
Control %71%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 12 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
0 1 2 1 4 12 8 2
Nida Dar
Nida Dar
23(22) 0x4 - 1x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • sweep shot
  • 10 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
3 1 3 2 4 2 1 7

Best performances - Bowlers

Sadia Iqbal
Sadia Iqbal
O4
M0
R17
W3
Eco4.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
AMCJK Athapaththu
O4
M0
R18
W3
Eco4.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Srinidhi Ramanujam

END OF OVER:
20 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | SL-W: 85/9 (32 runs required, RR: 4.25)

  • Inoshi Priyadharshani2 (3b)
  • Udeshika Prabodhani1 (3b)
  • Fatima Sana2.5-0-10-2
  • Sadia Iqbal4-0-17-3

That's it from us today. Hope you all enjoyed our coverage of the opening day of the T20 World Cup. I am signing off on behalf of Madushka Balasuriya and our scorer M Venkat Raghav. Do join us tomorrow for another double header. Until then, good night and take care.

Athapaththu: "I would like to congratulate Sana, she's played good cricket, leading from the front. That's really good for Pakistan. We struggled to chase. We have to adjust to conditions. These are good for batters, I hope we can bounce back. We bowled well. We have to bat really good too. We can't say wicket is slow and outfield is like this. We have to play positive cricket. [on taking on Australia next] Actually, approach is important. We have to play fearless cricket. They are a good team, if we can play best cricket we can beat any team."

Fatima Sana is the Player of the Match: "I am excited, thanks for the team they supported well. All credit goes to management. I blame myself [for the score], but I tried to back myself and be calm to hit. [on bowling] Obviously, we all know Chamari is a good player, we needed that wicket to have a good start and we got it. We won the toss and we wanted a lot of runs but we didn't get. But we still achieved the target in the game. [on Baig] Unfortunately she was injured. She is our main player. I had to calm myself as captain and carry on with the ball after that. We will ask her how she is after the game. We need to take the momentum and carry this to next match."

9.26pm: What a game from Pakistan. Fatima Sana, in her maiden T20 World Cup as Pakistan captain, opens the campaign with a 31-run win over Asia Cup champions Sri Lanka. That too defending just 116 runs. Her quickfire 30 helped Pakistan go past 100 in the first innings. In the chase, Sana used her bowlers wisely to dent the opposition. Spinners Iqbal, Sohail and Sandhu took seven wickets among them and took the pace off to give nothing to Sri Lanka batters. Sri Lanka lost Athapaththu early and unlike in the recent times, the likes of Gunaratne, Samarawickrama, Dilhari, Sanjeewani couldn't save the team as they lacked one big stand. Lack of boundaries put pressure at the end and eventually, they fell short.

Vishal S.: "Sana is the MVP, made runs and took wickets, captaincy impeccable."

19.6
1
Fatima Sana to Fernando, 1 run, Full length delivery, lofts this in the gap between deep midwicket and long-on
19.5
1
Fatima Sana to Prabodhani, 1 run, Length delivery on the stumps, worked to point, Dar fumbles again
19.4
0
Fatima Sana to Prabodhani, no run, Full length delivery outside off, pace off, driven to cover
19.3
0
Fatima Sana to Prabodhani, no run, Full length delivery on leg stump, flick this to short fine leg
19.2
W
Fatima Sana to Nisansala, OUT, Sana gets her second. Goes full and wide of off stump, Nisansala tries to scoop this behind but the ball just goes straight to Muneeba

S Nisansala c †Muneeba Ali b Fatima Sana 3 (15m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 42.85

19.1
0
Fatima Sana to Nisansala, no run, Full length delivery outside off stump, cannot connect

Sana for final over

SL Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st9AMCJK AthapaththuRMVD Gunaratne
2nd16H MadaviRMVD Gunaratne
3rd10GWHM PereraRMVD Gunaratne
4th12WK DilhariRMVD Gunaratne
5th5NND SilvaRMVD Gunaratne
6th18MAA SanjeewaniNND Silva
7th11NND SilvaS Nisansala
8th0BMSM KumariS Nisansala
9th2SIP FernandoS Nisansala
10th2KDU PrabodhaniSIP Fernando