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Sri Lanka vs Pakistan Scorecard, Match 8, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023
Result · Oct 10 2023, Tue - 02:00 PM (IST)
SRI LANKA344/9
PAKISTAN345/4
Pakistan won by 6 wickets
CRR:7.14
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | ODI World Cup |
| Date: | Oct 10 2023, Tue - 02:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Hyderabad |
| Venue: | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Imam ul-Haq, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Kusal Perera, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka (c), Sadeera Samarawickrama (wk), Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka, Matheesha Pathirana |
- Pakistan have won each of their seven meetings with Sri Lanka at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, having won their only meeting with the Lions in India by a 15-run margin (8 October 1987); in fact, the Shaheens have not met any other opponent more often without losing in competition history.
- Sri Lanka have lost each of their last three consecutive ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup matches when batting second on the day, including a 102-run loss against South Africa in their opening game of the ongoing edition; the last time the Lions lost more such games on the trot was a four-match streak in the 2003 edition.
- Pakistan have lost just two of their last eight men’s ODIs (W6), with their most recent loss in the format coming against Sri Lanka by a two-wicket margin (14 September 2023).
- Sri Lanka have won just one of their last four men’s ODIs (L3) – a two-wicket win against Pakistan (14 September 2023), after 13 back-to-back games in the format; the last time the Lions recorded a longer losing run in ODIs was between January to June in 2023 (six-match span).
- Sri Lankan batters have logged 54% dot balls since the start of 2023 in men’s ODI cricket, only Afghanistan (58%) among full-member sides have a logged higher dot ball rate while batting than the Lions during the same period.
- Pakistan bowlers have picked up 41wickets in slog overs (Overs 40-50) since the start of 2023 in men’s ODI cricket, the most such wickets logged by a team alongside New Zealand.
- Babar Azam (19 ODI tons) is one away from joining Saeed Anwar (20) to become the Pakistani player with the joint most tons in men’s ODIs; in fact, Azam has already scored two tons in the format in 2023 – a 151-run effort against Nepal (30 August 2023) and a knock of 107 runs against New Zealand (5 May 2023).
- Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka) has averaged 45.2 with the bat under the captaincy of Dasun Shanaka, the highest such rate attained by any batter under Shanaka’s leadership (min. two innings batted); no other batter has registered more 50+ scores under Shanaka’s captaincy than Nissanka (12 – three Hundreds and nine fifties).
- Mohammad Wasim (Pakistan) has logged five run-outs while fielding in the last two years in men’s ODIs, only Ireland’s Curtis Campher (seven) has logged more run-outs than Wasim during the same period.
- Maheesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka) has scalped 31 wickets since the start of 2023 in men’s ODI cricket, only Kuldeep Yadav (35) among players from full-member sides has bagged more during the same period.