Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Junaid is not in ground and Lankans having no problem to face Pakistani attack.
SL 42/0
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Lankan's are always very comfortable against Pakistani Spinners especially in their home ground and only Pakistani pacers always gave them hard time. Misbah should go with 3 pacers in this match. Even in this pitch where Lankan's spinner enjoying his 9 wkts feast, Pakistani pacers shared 8 wkts.
Last two days pitch will aslo give lot of help to spinners so it will be very hard for Pakistan to survive in 4th inning.
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
some stats
Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, SSC, 2nd dayHerath races to 250, Sarfraz keeps scoringStats highlights from the second day’s play of Mahela Jayawardene’s final Test
Shiva Jayaraman
August 15, 2014
57 Number of Tests Rangana Herath has taken to reach 250 wickets. He is fourth quickest on the list of spinners to take 250 wickets, after Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble. Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria also took 57 Tests to complete 250 wickets.
20 Five-wicket hauls that Herath has taken in Tests; he is only the seventh spinner to take those many five-fors. Overall, 21 bowlers have taken 20 or more five-wicket hauls in Tests.
180 Wickets Herath has taken at an average of 26.55 in 35 matches since Muralitharan’s retirement from Tests, including 16 five-fors - the most five-wicket hauls in this period, with Saeed Ajmal, Dale Steyn and Graeme Swann next in the list with ten each. Before that, Herath’s 71 wickets had come at 37.88 runs apiece, with only four five-wicket hauls in 22 Tests.
**6 **Number of fast bowlers, including Junaid Khan in this Test, who have taken a five-for in the first innings of a Test at the SSC, Colombo. The last such five-wicket haul came five years ago in a Test involving the same teams, when Thilan Thushara took 5 for 83 against Pakistan.
5 Five-wicket hauls Junaid has taken in 11 matches against Sri Lanka, which equals the most against them in Tests. Shane Warne is the other bowler to take five five-fors against Sri Lanka. Junaid’s 49 wickets against Sri Lanka have come at an average of 25.95. He has played a total of seven Tests against other teams - three each against South Africa and Zimbabwe and one against England - and has taken 16 wickets against them at an average of 37.62 without a five-wicket haul.
100 Catches Younis Khan completed in Tests when he caught Herath off Abdur Rehman. He becomes the first Pakistani to reach that milestone. Younis was already topping the list of Pakistan fielders with most catches, with Javed Miandad’s 93 the next highest.
3 Number of consecutive fifties that Sarfraz Ahmed has hit in Tests, the first Pakistan wicketkeeper to do so. This is also only the sixth time that a Pakistan wicketkeeper has hit four or more fifty-plus scores in a calendar year. Kamran Akmal did it three times for Pakistan.
61.40 Sarfraz’s average in 2014; he has hit 307 of his 396 career runs this year in four Tests. In four Tests before this year, he had hit just 89 runs at an average of 11.12.
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
What a way to reach his first Century
86.1
Welegedara to Sarfraz Ahmed, FOUR, hoho! That’s angled across and wide outside off, and once again Sarfraz sweeps a seam bowler, firmly, just behind square. Super shot
86.2
Welegedara to Sarfraz Ahmed, SIX, there’s the sweep again, after taking two steps down the pitch, and what a way to get to his hundred. First by a Pakistan wicketkeeper in five years. This one was hit in the air, and it went all the way over the square leg boundary. What a shot, and what an innings
Sarfraz Ahmed exults after scoring his maiden Test hundred, Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Colombo, 3rd day, August 16, 2014
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SL 47/0
Juanid absence is really hurting the Pakistan.
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Pakistani bowling so far
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Here come the 1st wicket 
55/1
20.2
Abdur Rehman to Tharanga, OUT, got him! Midwicket was left open, and it was a short ball that didn’t quite bounce. It turned from outside off and he bottom-edged it onto his stumps as he looked to pull it. Went very hard at it
WU Tharanga b Abdur Rehman 45 (63b 5x4 0x6) SR: 71.42
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Abdul Rehman is exceptional today.
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Rehman
24.2
Abdur Rehman to Silva, OUT, taken! What a catch by Younis, diving low to his left. Silva jumps down the track, and doesn’t quite get to the pitch. Goes for a big drive, but it spun hard and he gets a thick outside edge that goes past the right glove of Sarfraz and into Younis’ hands inches above the grass. The umpires have a look at whether it was a clean take, and it definitely was
JK Silva c Younis Khan b Abdur Rehman 17 (72b 1x4 0x6) SR: 23.61
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Lets get ride of MJ and Sanga quickly else it will be too late 
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Junaid is in Hospital ?
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Junaid taken to hospital
*=left]Junaid Khan was taken to hospital for medical assistance after he lost his balance in the dressing room, according to Pakistan team manager Moin Khan. Junaid had been hit on the right side of his helmet grille by a Dhammika Prasad bouncer in the 91st over of Pakistan's innings but stayed on and remained unbeaten on 13. Moin said that Junaid seemed to be fine and was undergoing routine medical tests.
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Hard luck for Pakistan.
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
At Tea SL 86/2
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SL 141/2
Both India and Pakistan are in trouble.
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SL 162/2 
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167/2
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
Both pair on 49 :hinna:
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
gayee bheins paani mein..
Re: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (SSC), 14 August 2014
#TeamMisbah](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=TeamMisbah) on verge of being whitewashed in the Test series