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236/5
Dcikwella scoring runs easily
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77.2
Saeed Ajmal to Dickwella, FOUR, whoa. What a gutsy little player he is! Down the pitch and gets into a superb position to chip it over wide mid-off
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Again spinners from both ends 
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There he goes Junnni 
howzaaaaaaaaaaat
82.2
Junaid Khan to Dickwella, OUT, how’s that? That was full, angling in, and Dickwella’s head falls over as he tries to work that leg side, and is pinged on the front pad in front of the stumps. The finger goes up, and Dickwella decides to review… Looks like it’s angling down… but it’s just clipping, according to Hawkeye, and that means it’s umpire’s call, and that means it’s out. Junaid has three now
N Dickwella lbw b Junaid Khan 24 (27b 2x4 0x6) SR: 88.88
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249/6 come on wrap up the inning guys 
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get the Mathews out quickly, bouncer, short pitch delivers and then full length balls
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Junaid on Fire
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Juni , you rock
82.5
Junaid Khan to Perera, OUT, very full now, and it’s another loud appeal as Dilruwan gets his front pad across and is struck low down looking to work around it. Not given, and Pakistan review. Whoa. It’s pitched in line, Hawkeye says, and it’s smashing into the inside of the leg stump. No edge either, and Dilruwan has to go
MDK Perera lbw b Junaid Khan 0 (3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
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Nice fight back by Pakistan, SL were 143/1 and looking for big total. Nice bowling by both pacers
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Juni 
Thanks God Misbah giving him chance to bowl.
chaudhry: “Unfortunately i cannot watch live coverage and i have to live on cricinfo updates. Can you tell us if junaid is looking as probing and threatening as he once was?” Junaid is bowling brilliantly, have no doubt about it.
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Wahab Riaz took a Test wicket after three years, Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Colombo, 1st day, August 14, 2014
what a jump
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Junaid Khan broke Sri Lanka’s opening stand, Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Colombo, 1st day, August 14, 2014
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Wahab yes Short ball making Independence day memorable love you guys
85.1
Wahab Riaz to Mathews, OUT, and that’s that. It’s a short ball, and Mathews shuffles across and looks to pull. Goes through to the keeper with some sound on the way. Not sure what it touched. He was given out and he reviewed… and yes, it certainly kissed his glove
AD Mathews c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Wahab Riaz 39 (86b 3x4 0x6) SR: 45.34
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After too many years watching two Pakistani pacers on fire
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Come one guys, keep it up
261/8
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Happy Independence day
**And with that, it’s stumps. Stunning bowling performance from Pakistan after losing the toss and going wicketless in the first session. It was the fast bowlers who brought them back into the game, and as is often the case, their most dangerous work came with the older ball. Wahab Riaz was expensive but Pakistan will take that if he can bowl a ball, and an over, like he did to dismiss Kumar Sangakkara, and Junaid Khan was simply brilliant. The way he worked Thirimanne out was just a pleasure to watch, putting doubt in his head with one incoming ball and then bowling a series of away-curlers.
The two of them have taken three more wickets with the second new ball and Sri Lanka will feel they’ve had a poor day, **especially after the start their openers gave them. Upul Tharanga, who wasn’t certain to play, looked shaky at first but his footwork grew increasingly assertive as the day progressed and he made a pretty impressive 92.
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Lets wish tomorrow we will get ride of last pair quickly and Pakistani batsman will batting sensibly :jhanda:
Seamers make it Pakistan’s day
The Report by Devashish Fuloria
August 14, 2014
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Sri Lanka 261 for 8 (Tharanga 92, Junaid 4-69, Wahab 3-66) v Pakistan
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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A good day at the office but one cannot read too much into the match situation. Pak have yet to bat
By tomorrow we shall know which way this game is heading
Pakistan's batting is just too unpredictable and one session is often enough to turn the game upside down
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Why is Abdur Rehman again in this team? I'd have voted for Chacha Zulfiqar babar.
I hope they only place him on thirdman as he missed the easiest catch of Sangakara in 1st test while standing closeby
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^ He seems to do well only when Ajmal fails which is a rarity. He is a complete opposite of Kaneria, Rehman doesn't give away easy runs but he doesn't take wickets either.