Batsmen taking no risks
June 12, 2017 17:09
Sri Lanka 138-3 (27 ovs) vs Pakistan | Scorecard
Wasim continues and gives 2 runs in the over.
Sri Lanka ticking away nicely here. They are taking no risks and keeping the scoreboard ticking.
Mathews takes Hafeez to the cleaners. A huge six over long-on sees Mathews get his first maximum.
He comes back well to give three more runs in the over.
Imad comes back into the attack and is taken off for 5 runs.
Hafeez continues and Dickwella looks to sweep him but doesn't connect enough.
Dickwella swivels and plays a pull to mid-wicket for a couple.
He then cuts, a misfield at point allows the batsmen to steal a single.
Mathews gets a single off the last ball of the over.
Ashraf continues and the ball flies off his hand. Dickwella does well to pick the ball and send it to mid-on. That is a no ball and a free hit signalled.
Ashraf looks for the yorker, bowls it on the leg stump, Mathews flicks it through the on side for a boundary.
Much needed boundary that as the big runs have dried up here.
The batsmen then just knock the ball around for singles.
Mathews picks the ball and flicks it to the leg side for another single.
Dickwella comes down the track and cuts the ball to backward point for 2.
The batsman then flicks it to square leg to end the over with a single.
Hafeez continues from around the wicket.
He nearly gets Dickwella, who looks to sweep the ball. The ball goes aerial but thankfully lands in no man's land.
Hafeez bowls a wide and the next ball misses leg and byes signalled.
Dickwella gets one run to long on and that is a dot ball to finish the over.
Ashraf continues from the other end and he has bowled a tidy over to give just 2 runs off the over.
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