Pakistan, after a miserable performance in its first test match against Sri Lanka, plays the second test at Colombo beginning 30 June.
Sri Lanka beat Pakistan in the first test at Galle by 209 runs right on the fourth day and now leads Pakistan 1-0 in athree test matches series. The miserable performance by the visitors came after the loss of the five ODI series to Sri Lanka 3-1, with one of the ODIs, the fourth one, wshed away in rain.
Sri Lanka has not won a Test series since defeating New Zealand 2-0 at home in August 2009 and is eagergly eyeing the second test and win the series at least 2-1 or even completely whitewash it.
Thanks to weak Pakistan batting line which has failed not only in the first test but aslo in the ODI series. Whatever gains Pakistan side has had is attributed to the bowlers, specially the spinners. as Pakistan's spinners claimed 11 of 14 Sri Lankan wickets at Galle. saeed Ajmal came out on top with seven wickets.
Let us watch the 2nd ODI with the hope that Pakistani nbatsmen shien for a change or else lose the series to the Islanders.
The opposing teams for the second test are:
Sri Lanka: DPMD Jayawardene*, AD Mathews, LD Chandimal, TM Dilshan, ANPR Fernando, CRD Fernando, HMRKB Herath, HAPW Jayawardene†, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, BMAJ Mendis, NT Paranavitana, NLTC Perera, TT Samaraweera, KC Sangakkara
Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Adnan Akmal†, Afaq Raheem, Aizaz Cheema, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Faisal Iqbal, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Ayub, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Sami, Saeed Ajmal, Taufeeq Umar, Umar Gul, Younis Khan
The test match is scheduled from June 30 - July 4 2012 daily at 04:30 GMT at Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC), Colombo.
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