DAMBULLA: Pakistan’s batsmen displayed fine batting performance by piling up 288 runs of eight wickets after they were put into bat by Sri Lanka in the third One-day International here at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Monday.
Young Umar Akmal, playing only his second one-dayer, notched up 66 from 65 balls with five fours and two sixes to help Pakistan amass a huge total before his older brother Kamran made 45 and captain Younis Khan hit 44.
Later, Shahid Afridi (32 off 20 balls), Abdul Razzaq (30 off 26) and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (30 not out from 23 balls) made significant contributions. Razzaq and Naved both smashed two sixes each.
Opener Nasir Jamshed (1) and former captain Shoaib Malik (12) failed again to get runs.
For Sri Lanka, Angelo Mathews and Muttiah Muralitharan got two wickets each while Thilan Thushara, Dilhara Fernando and Nuwan Kulasekara took one wicket each.
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