New-look Sri Lanka accomplished their greatest T20 prevail upon world number one Pakistan by 64 keeps running on the back of some splendid batting and bowling in Lahore on Saturday. Opener Danushka Gunathilaka scored a profession best 57 and in spite of a cap stunt by young Pakistan paceman Mohammad Hasnain Sri Lanka posted a difficult 165-5 in their 20 overs.
Quick bowlers Isuru Udana (3-11) and Nuwan Pradeep (3-21) at that point disassembled Pakistan for 101 in 17.4 overs to give Sri Lanka a 1-0 lead in the three-coordinate series.
Pradeep had world number one Twenty20 batsman Babar Azam in the second over to set the stage for their greatest success against Pakistan in 19 reciprocal matches.
The past greatest T20 win by Sri Lanka over Pakistan was by 37 keeps running at Hambantota in 2012.
Pakistan required a major innings from Azam who guaranteed much with two limits yet was gotten behind off Pradeep.
Rebound stars Umar Akmal fell for a first ball duck while Ahmed Shehzad oversaw only four preceding captain Sarfaraz Ahmed (24 off 30 balls) and Iftikhar Ahmed (25 off 24) included 46 keeps running for the fourth wicket.
Be that as it may, they batted gradually and the asking rate took off.
Udana then contributed with three wickets and spinner Wanindu Hasaranga two to paralyze a hopeless Pakistan.
The success is huge for an unpracticed Sri Lanka group – positioned eighth in Twenty20s – who are missing ten top players, including ordinary captain Lasith Malinga, who all would not visit over security fears.
Prior, Gunathilaka scored a 38-ball 57 with eight limits and a six during a fast 84-run opening stand with Avishka Fernando who made a 34-ball 33 with three limits after Pakistan sent them into bat.
Debutant Bhanuka Rajapaksa hit a strong 22-ball 32 with two sixes and the same number of limits while captain Dasun Shanaka contributed with a red hot 10-ball 17 with two sixes.
Sri Lanka were looking set for a major aggregate yet paceman Hasnain wrecked them with wickets of Rajapaksa off the last chunk of the sixteenth over before expelling Shanaka and Shehan Jayasuriya off the initial two wads of the eighteenth over to finish a cap stunt.
Hasnain’s cap stunt is the ninth in every single Twenty20 worldwide with Malinga enrolling the accomplishment twice.
Hasnain is the second Pakistani after Faheem Ashraf to accomplish a cap stunt.
Ashraf accomplished the accomplishment against Sri Lanka two years prior.
The staying two matches will be played on Monday and Wednesday – likewise in Lahore.