Noman Ali celebrates with teammates.© AFP
Noman Ali took seven wickets to govern Pakistan’s rout of Sri Lanka through an innings and 222 runs to clinch the second one Check within 4 days and sweep the line 2-0 on Thursday. The left-arm spinner took the primary seven and rapid bowler Naseem Shah took the general 3 to bowl out Sri Lanka for 188 within the night consultation in Colombo.
Noman returned career-best figures of 7-70 in his fifteenth Check as Sri Lanka suffered their heaviest Check defeat at house. Pakistan, who gained the outlet Check through 4 wickets, declared their first innings on 576-5 later simply two overs within the morning consultation with a blowout govern of 410 runs.
Opener Abdullah Shafique stood out along with his 201 in an innings that noticed 3 century stands, together with a 124-run partnership with Agha Salman, who smashed an unbeaten 132.
The hosts began strongly with a gap be on one?s feet of 69 till Noman bowled Nishan Madushka for 33 along with his first ball of the pace and dominated the roost thereafter. Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne clash obstacles off Naseem and Shaheen Shah Afridi, with Madushka becoming a member of the fee till his retirement.
Left-hander Karunaratne fell for 41 later lunch and Noman quickly despatched again Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal earlier than Dhananjaya de Silva tried to withstand in his transient stick with Mathews.
De Silva fell for 10 when he was once stuck out through Abrar Ahmed future making an attempt a bulky heave over long-on.
Angelo Mathews clash an unbeaten 63 and placed on some combat with Ramesh Mendis earlier than he was once after all stumped off Noman, who went wicketless in Sri Lanka’s first innings overall of 166. Naseem bowled at specific age and reversed the impaired ball to fail to see a few similar lbw shouts however after all wrapped up the tail with two wickets in a single over.
Previous within the pace, Pakistan’s concussion replace Mohammad Rizwan reached 50 off 67 balls with 3 fours in the second one over and placed on 108 runs with in a single day spouse Salman. Pakistan held the entire aces later bundling out Sri Lanka for 166, with Shafique’s maiden Check double ton guiding them to a mammoth overall.
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