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


Rao-Iftikhar-Anjum-Jayawardene-200109.jpg How many times have you seen a man of the match award winner not been interviewed? Today was one of those rare days when Salman Butt did recieve a 1000 US dollors check plus a trophy but Butt was not called for an interview by host Dominic Cork - former England swing bowler.

Salman Butt reacted suprized, and quite understandably too, as Cork signaled boradcasting director to cut live pictures back to studio.

Salman had scored chanceless century today at Karachi (100 off 118 balls) and remained unbeaten while opening the innings with Khurram Manzoor. but match was more than won by Rao Iftikhar Anjum & Umar Gul who picked up 6 wickets between them after Srilankan openers Sanath Jayasuriya & Tillakaratane Dilshan had got visitor's team to a rocket start.

Umar Gul struck first for home team before it could have got ugly.. Srilankan openers had collected 71 runs from first 9 overs and Sanath Jayasuriya continued accelerating runrate after Dilshan dismissal. Captain Mahela Jayawardene was out off the 3rd ball he faced & Chamara Kapugedara came down the track to Shahid Afridi without covering his stumps and was bowled. In fact, Shahid Afridi was extracting more spin out of this Karachi pitch than any other spinner in this game.

Pakistan were set a target of 220, even though they dropped easy catches through Yunus Khan and Shahid Afridi. Srilankan middle order failed miserably as Pakistani fast bowlers tightened the screws.

Shoaib Akhtar comeback : into National team must be a huge relief for Pakistan cricket fans as "Rawalpindi express" has gone through rough couple of years and this was his first International match since November 2007!




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