Lankans get early breakthroughs, but Pakistan recover
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Pakistan got off to a great start as Hameed hit Vaas for a four through third man on the very first delivery. Unlike the last match Pakistan played, Hameed wasn't the only Pakistani opener to score runs. Razzaq joined in on the action this time, and together they scored 17 runs off of the first over. Where Razzaq captilised on this chance to redeem himself after that horrible display of batting in the first match, Hameed did the opposite and proved to his critics how inconsistent he is with his batting as Zoysa was able to get an edge out of him in an attempt to play an out swinging delivery towards mid-wicket.
As Vaas kept getting smacked on one end, Zoysa did his best to keep things under control on the other. In such an attempt, he was able to trap Malik leg before (which was clearly out) but umpire Rudy Koertzen gave him another life, which didn't last long as Zoysa bowled Malik out on the next ball.
With Razzaq and Inzamam on the crease now, and Zoysa having been done with his first and very destructive spell, Pakistan was able to make a comeback from being down 44/2 to 119/2 in less than 8 overs. This runrate, however, was still much too low compared what Sri Lankan batsmen are capable of. To make matters worse, Razzaq was bowled out by Dilshan soon after reaching his 50.
From this point on, no matter what the cost, Pakistani batsmen kept raising the runrate. Inzamam hit Murali for two consecutive sixes just after reaching his second 50 of this tournament. In a greedy attempt to raise the runrate, Inzamam, Yousef, and Afridi (all seemed to be in good form) were thrown out due to bad running. At this moment, with Younis and Moin on the crease, 200 seemed to be a feasible score. But with some great timely hitting in the last two overs of the inning, these two were able to take it past 200 finishing the inning at
219/7.