Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan 1st Test: Live Scores at Galle, Aug 6-10, 2014.
Teams: Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan
Venue: Played at Galle International Stadium
Time: Match scheduled to begin at 10:00 local time (04:30 GMT)
Toss:
(last five matches, most recent first)
Sri Lanka D L W D D
Pakistan W L D L W
Preview
Pakistan want to end an eight-year drought without a Test win in Sri Lanka and Waqar's return and his familiarity with the younger players might assist in controlling their output better. Opener Khurram Manzoor bagged a pair after his 146 in Abu Dhabi. Left-arm seamer Rahat Ali accounted for only two wickets against Sri Lanka in the UAE after snagging a second five-wicket haul in Zimbabwe. Azhar Ali carried eight innings with scores of less than 20 before spearheading the Sharjah coup.
Match Stats
1.Mahela Jayawardene's average of 32.16 against Pakistan is his lowest against all Test-playing nations
2.Pakistan, who had floated to third place in the ICC rankings despite not playing any cricket since January, will drop to sixth if they lose the series
Teams:
Sri Lanka team:WU Tharanga,KC Sangakkara,DPMD Jayawardene,KTGD Prasad,UWMBC Welagedara,KJ Silva,HMRKB Herath,PDRL Perera,AD Mathews,RAS Lakmal,HDRL Thirimanne,Shaminda Eranga,Nuwan Pradeep,KDK Vithanage,DPDN Dickwella
Pakistan team:Misbah-ul-Haq,Younis Khan,Wahab Riaz,Sarfraz Ahmed,Saeed Ajmal,Abdur Rehman,Khurram Manzoor,Ahmed Shehzad,Mohammad Talha,Umar Akmal,Asad Shafiq,Azhar Ali,Junaid Khan,Shan Masood