Filed under 1st ODI - 20 Jan 09

Match : Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, first One day International of Bank Alfalah 3 ODI series.
Venue/Date : National Stadium in Karachi in Pakistan.. 20 January 2009.
Debuts : none.
Toss : Srilanka, elected to bat first.
Result : Pakistan won by 8 wickets, 4.1 overs remained.
Series Result : Pakistan 1-0 ahead with 2 more games to play.
Man of the match : Salman Butt.
Umpires : Nadeem Gauri (Pakistan) & Nigel Long (England).
Head to head : 112 ODIs overall, Pakistan = 68, Srilanka = 40, 1 tied, 3 no results.

Srilankans came into this match tired, having played in Zimbabwe and in Bangaldesh back to back and the kinds of pitches they were playing on, were hardly any good for batting. Today's pitch at Karachi stadium had nothing for bowlers and everything for batters.

Srilanka were off to shinning start, Dilshan and then Jayasuriya sent new ball to all parts of national stadium before the got out. Rao Iftikhar Anjum brought home team back with quick wickets (he even was on hat-trick once) as Srilanka bundled out without finishing their quota of overs.

Pakistani openers, in typical sub-continent manner - didn't let free opportunity to improve their batting average with an opening partnership of 168 runs.

No interview : for man of the match Salman Butt. Probably, Host Dominic cork forget it or he doesn't like Butt much but it was a strange incidence where man of the ODI didn't get to tell a word!

Pakistan vs Srilanka : 1st ODI : 20 January 2009, Karachi : Full Scorecard
Srilanka = 219 all out in 45.2 overs
Tillakaratne Dilshan	c Butt	b Gul	42	33 balls, 7x4
Sanath Jayasuriya	lbw	b Gul	38	35 balls, 6x4
Kumar Sangakkara	c Butt	b Anjum	49	70 balls, 4x4
Mahela Jayawardene	c Akmal	b Anjum	1	3 balls
Chamara Kapugedera		b Afridi	27	43 balls, 2x4
Jehan Mubarak	run out	(Misbah)	8	16 balls
Farveez Maharoof	c Misbah	b Mallik	11	30 balls
Thilan Thusara	c Akmal	b Anjum	0	1 ball
Nuwan Kulasekara	c Akmal	b Gul	24	33 balls, 1x4
Muthiah Muralitharan	not out		7	7 balls, 1x4
Ajantha Mendis		b Anjum	1	3 balls
Shoaib Akhtar = 7-0-43-0		Sohail Tanvir = 5-0-35-0 (1nb)
Iftikhar Anjum = 8.2-1-42-4 (1wd)		Umar Gul = 9-0-30-3 (1nb)
Shahid Afridi = 10-1-47-1 (3wd)		Shoaib Mallik = 6-0-19-1
Pakistan (Target = 220) = 220/2 in 45.5 overs
Khurram Manzoor	c&b	b Muralitharan	83	127 balls, 9x4
Salman Butt	not out		100	118 balls, 13x4
Younus Khan	c Mendis	b Maharoof	20	22 balls, 3x4
Shoaib Mallik	not out		11	10 balls, 1x4
Did not bat = Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir,
Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Shoaib Akhtar
Nuwan Kulasekara = 8-1-35-0		Thilan Thusara = 8-0-31-0 (1wd)
Farveez Maharoof = 7.5-0-44-1		Muthiah Muralitharan = 10-1-42-1 (1nb)
Ajantha Mendis = 7-0-41-0		Sanath Jayasuriya = 3-0-7-0
Tillakratane Dilshan = 2-0-7-0		Extras = 6 (lbye=4, wd=1, nb=1)
Pakistan won by 8 wickets, leads 3 ODI series 1-0 with 2 more games to go..

Preview : Srilanka - Pakistan start 3 ODI series

Scorecard : Pakistan vs Srilanka, 1st ODI, Karachi : 20 January 2009

1st ODI : Rao Iftikhar Anjum & Umar Gul bowl Pakistan to victory