Pakistan beat S Lanka by 26 runs

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Pakistan beat S Lanka by 26 runs

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Pakistan won 4th ODI by 26 runs played against Sri Lanka at Sharjah stadium on Sunday.

20 November,2011 11:58 pm

Dashing all-rounder Shahid Afridi smashed a fighting half-century to save Pakistan from total collapse in the fourth day-night international against Sri Lanka at Sharjah stadium on Sunday.The 31-year-old scored a 65-ball 75 studded with four boundaries and three sixes to lift his team from a precarious 120/7 to 200 in 49.3 overs as Sri Lankan bowlers put Pakistan in trouble after they won the toss and batted.Afridi played against his style of trying to hit every ball out of the ground and added an invaluable 61 runs for the eighth wicket with tail-ender Saeed Ajmal who finished with 20. The swashbuckling Afridi hit spinner Seekkugge Prassana over extra cover for a six to reach his 31st half-century -- his first in 15 innings -- before hitting the same bowler for two boundaries and a six to take 19 in the 43rd over. He finally fell, caught behind off paceman Thissara Perera, in the next over.Sri Lanka, aiming to level the series after losing the first and third matches in Dubai, had kept Pakistan in check before Afridi’s knock.