Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan in 2008–09

Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan in 2008–09

	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Dates	20 January – 5 March
Captains	Mahela Jayawardene	Shoaib Malik
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 0–0
Most runs	Thilan Samaraweera 469	Younis Khan 313
Most wickets	Dilhara Fernando 2	Umar Gul 9
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Tillakaratne Dilshan 255	Salman Butt 162
Most wickets	Muttiah Muralitharan 6	Umar Gul 10

The Sri Lankan cricket team was touring Pakistan in January and February 2009. The series was the first Test tour of Pakistan since South Africa visited in October 2007. The tour was arranged as a replacement for the scheduled tour of India which was cancelled by BCCI following 2008 Mumbai attacks. The tour included 3 ODIs and 2 Tests.

The safety of touring cricket teams in Pakistan had long been in issue. In May 2002, New Zealand abandoned their Test series in Pakistan after a suicide bomb attack outside their hotel. Australia had recently refused to tour on safety grounds. In order to persuade the Sri Lankan team to visit, the Pakistan government offered to arrange "presidential-style security.", which they failed to provide, during the Second Test at Lahore, the Sri Lankan team were attacked by masked gunmen in a terror attack. Six members of the teams' security detail and two other civilians were killed. No cricketers were killed but five were listed as injured including Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, and his deputy Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana.

This was the final tour of a visiting team in Pakistan until Zimbabwe toured in 2015.

ODI series

1st ODI

20 January 2009
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 219 (45.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 220/2 (45.5 overs)
Kumar Sangakkara 40 (70 balls) Iftikhar Anjum 4/42 (8.2 overs)		Salman Butt 100* (117 balls) Muttiah Muralitharan 1/42 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 8 wickets
National Stadium, Karachi
Umpires: Nigel Llong (ENG) & Nadeem Ghauri (PAK)
Player of the match: Salman Butt (Pakistan)

2nd ODI

21 January 2009
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 290/8 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 161 (34.5 overs)
Tillakaratne Dilshan 76 (88 balls) Umar Gul 4/58 (9 overs)		Salman Butt 62 (87 balls) Muttiah Muralitharan 3/19 (7 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 129 runs
National Stadium, Karachi
Umpires: Asad Rauf (PAK) & Nigel Llong (ENG)
Player of the match: Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)

3rd ODI

24 January 2009
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 309/5 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 75 (22.5 overs)
Tillakaratne Dilshan 137 (139) Umar Gul 3/45 (9 overs)		Umar Gul 27 (35) Nuwan Kulasekara 3/17 (7 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 234 runs
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Umpires: Asad Rauf (PAK) & Nigel Llong (ENG)
Player of the match: Tillakaratne Dilshan

Test series

1st Test

21–25 February 2009
Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
644/7 d (155.2 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 240 (424) Danish Kaneria 3/170 (46.2 overs)		765/6 d (248.5 overs) Younis Khan 313 (568) Dilhara Fernando 2/124 (39 overs)
144/5 (31 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 65 (66) Danish Kaneria 2/35 (9.0 overs)

Match drawn
National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan
Umpires: Steve Davis (AUS) & Simon Taufel (AUS)
Player of the match: Younis Khan

For the first time in history, both captains hit innings of 200 or more in the same Test.
This is only the second Test in history to see three batsmen hit double centuries. The other double century in the match was by Sri Lankan Thilan Samaraweera.
Khurram Manzoor and Sohail Khan (Pak) and Tharanga Paranavitana (SL) made their Test debuts.

2nd Test

1–5 March 2009
scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
606 (151 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 214 (338) Umar Gul 6/135 (37 overs)		110/1 (23.4 overs) Khurram Manzoor 59* (71) Ajantha Mendis 0/21 (8 overs)

Match drawn
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan
Umpires: Steve Davis (AUS) & Simon Taufel (AUS)

Match abandoned as a result of an attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore
Mohammad Talha (Pak) made his Test debut.

Only Tour Match:Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI vs Sri Lankans

17–18 February 2009
(scorecard)

Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI 395/4 (90 overs)	v	Sri Lankans 283/5 (90 overs)
Ahmed Shehzad 146(retired hurt) (174) Chaminda Vaas 1/27 (10 overs)		Kumar Sangakkara 100(retired not out) (176) Mohammad Khalil 1/10 (4 overs)

Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI won by 112 runs
Southend Club Cricket Stadium, Karachi
Umpires: Ehtesham-ul-Haq & Riazuddin (both PAK)

Players per side: 14 (11 batting, 11 fielding)
Maximum of 90 overs

References

Cricinfo – South Africa in Pakistan Test Series, 2007/08
"Sri Lanka have confirmed tour – Pakistan board". Cricinfo Pakistan. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
"Where terror was never too far away". The Statesman. 3 March 2009. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
Knight, Ben (9 August 2002). "Australian cricket team cancel Pakistan tour". ABC News. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
Perlez, Jane (3 March 2009). "For Pakistan, Attack Exposes Security Flaws". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
Cricinfo staff (3 March 2009). "SL cricketers injured in terror attack". Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
"Test matches: Batting records (filters: captaincy, innings score ≥ 200)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
"Test matches: Batting records (filter: 3 or more double centuries)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 February 2009.

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March 2009	Women's World Cup Final
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