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All Articles under '1st ODI - 20 Jan 09'

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

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 ... .. Read complete article

Added on Wed, 21 January 2009

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

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 ... .. Read complete article

Added on Tue, 20 January 2009

Preview : Srilanka - Pakistan start 3 ODI series

Pakistan is cricket starved.. only Bangladesh & Zimbabwe played ODI series in Pakistan in year 2008 besides Asia cup in June-July.

Since then, Pakistan board has suffered loss of tour by Australia, Champions Trophy and a full tour by high profile Indian cricket team. As International cricket schedule is set on yearly basis, Pakistan team found no country free enough to organize even an overseas tour, except West Indies who played 3 ODI series versus Pakistan at Abu Dhabi in November 2008.

No more, here are Srilankans on Pakistani shores. Sri Lanka vs Pakistan cricket series 2009 starts tomorrow with first of 3 Oneday international series followed by test series a fortnight's later.

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Added on Tue, 20 January 2009