Pakistan VS sir lanka 3rd test 3july to 7 july
Misbah Ul Haq, the skipper of Pakistan team in the tests won the toss and elected to field first. Pakistan this time went for a chase in the final test match that they desperately require to win to win the series in Sri Lanka after 15 years. Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd test Day 1 highlights for the replay of the entire opening day’s play.
Sri Lanka started their innings and Karunaratne with Kaushal Silva came to open the innings of Sri Lanka. The opening pair of Sri Lanka failed to provide a good start to the team as Kaushal Silva’s wicket was removed by the newly included Rahat Ali in the Pakistan playing eleven. Rahat Ali in the 5th over of the opening day’s play removed Kaushal Silva and provided Pakistan with the earlier breakthrough. Tharanga came to bat and joined Karunaratne on the crease. Both batsmen tried to recover from the earlier damage and both batsmen played quality cricket with the bat. Karunaratne and Tharanga shared a promising partnership of 91 runs. The partnership between Karunaratne and Tharanga remained to be the highest contribution in the first innings from the Sri Lankan batting lineup. Tharanga was the 2nd highest runs scorer for Sri Lanka who played for 46 runs with the help of 6 boundaries. Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd test Day 1 Highlights in HD quality video for the quality play by Tharanga.
Karunaratne 130 runs batting highlights vs Pakistan
The most impressive batting performance was the centurion innings of Karunaratne who played for a marvelous innings of 130 runs for Sri Lanka. Karunaratne’s 130 runs innings made him stay at the top of the highest runs scorer in the first innings of Sri Lanka. Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test Day 1 highlights for the quality play of Karunaratne against Pakistan in the opening day of the test match at Pallekele.Watch Karunaratne 130 runs batting highlights vs Pakistan in the 3rd match of the test series in complete replay of the day 1 featured in Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd test day 1 highlights.
None of the batsmen from the rest of the Sri Lankan batting lineup could be able to stay at the wicket or resisted against the spin bowling attack of Pakistan. Once again Yasir Shah took the charge to wrap-up the batting lineup of Sri Lanka. Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test Day 1 Highlights for the quality bowling of Yasir Shah who remained to be the highest wicket taker for Pakistan in the opening day of the 3rd test match. Yasir Shah took 4 wickets for Pakistan vs Sri Lanka in the 3rd match of the series that is the final and series decider. Yasir Shah bowled superbly against Sri Lanka and claimed 4 wickets in the opening day of the 3rd test match at Pallekele. Yasir Shah was the most impressive bowler for Pakistan once again in the 3rd test match who took 4 wickets for 77 runs in the first day of the test match. Watch Yasir Shah bowling highlights vs Sri Lanka in 3rd test match.
Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test Day 1 highlights for the exclusive replay of the entire day’s play as Pakistan contained Sri Lanka in the opening day of the match. Sri Lanka in the first Day of the 3rd test match scored 272 runs at the loss of their 8 wickets. Watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test Day 1 highlights for the exciting play in the first day of the last test match hosted by Sri Lanka.
