Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012

The Pakistani cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 1 June to 12 July 2012. The tour consists of two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Test matches.^[1][2]

Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2012
	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Dates	1 June – 12 July
Captains	Misbah-ul-Haq (Tests & ODIs) Mohammad Hafeez (T20Is)	Mahela Jayawardene
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs	Mohammad Hafeez (315)	Kumar Sangakkara (490)
Most wickets	Saeed Ajmal (15)	Rangana Herath (15)
Player of the series	Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 5-match series 3–1
Most runs	Azhar Ali (217)	Kumar Sangakkara (164)
Most wickets	Mohammad Hafeez (6)	Thisara Perera (11)
Player of the series	Thisara Perera (SL)
Twenty20 International series
Results	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Shahid Afridi (53)	Lahiru Thirimanne (48)
Most wickets	Sohail Tanvir (4)	Nuwan Kulasekara (4)
Player of the series	Sohail Tanvir (Pak)

Squads

Tests		ODIs		T20Is
Sri Lanka[3][4]	Pakistan[5]	Sri Lanka[6]	Pakistan[7]	Sri Lanka[8]	Pakistan[9]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Nuwan Kulasekara Angelo Mathews Jeevan Mendis Tharanga Paranavitana Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Suraj Randiv Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chanaka Welegedara	Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Abdur Rehman Adnan Akmal (wk) 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	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Jeevan Mendis Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne	Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Abdur Rehman Aizaz Cheema Asad Shafiq Azhar Ali Imran Farhat Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Rahat Ali Saeed Ajmal Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Shahid Afridi Sohail Tanvir[10][11][note 1] Umar Akmal Umar Gul Younis Khan	Mahela Jayawardene (c) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Kaushal Lokuarachchi Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Thisara Perera Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne Isuru Udana	Mohammad Hafeez (c) Ahmed Shehzad Hammad Azam Haris Sohail Khalid Latif Mohammad Sami Raza Hasan Saeed Ajmal Shahid Afridi Shakeel Ansar (wk) Shoaib Malik Sohail Tanvir Umar Akmal Umar Gul Yasir Arafat

Notes

1. Sohail Tanvir replaced injured Nasir Jamshed.

T20I series

1st T20I

1 June 2012 18:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  132/7 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 95 (17.4 overs)
Thisara Perera 32 (15) Sohail Tanvir 3/12 (4 overs)		Ahmed Shehzad 36 (42) Angelo Mathews 2/8 (4 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 37 runs Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Ranmore Martinesz (SL) Player of the match: Thisara Perera (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shakeel Ansar (Pak) and Kaushal Lokuarachchi, Sachithra Senanayake and Lahiru Thirimanne (all SL) made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

3 June 2012 18:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Pakistan  122/6 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 99 (19.2 overs)
Shahid Afridi 52 (33) Mohammed Sami 3/16 (3 overs)		Chamara Kapugedara 19 (23) Nuwan Kulasekara 2/13 (4 overs)

Pakistan won by 23 runs Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Shahid Afridi (Pak)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

ODI series

1st ODI

7 June 2012 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  135/8 (42 overs)	v	Pakistan 135/4 (34.1 overs)
Lahiru Thirimanne 42* (73) Umar Gul 3/24 (9 overs)		Mohammad Hafeez 37 (57) Nuwan Kulasekara 1/29 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 6 wickets (D/L method) Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Umar Gul (Pak)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd ODI

9 June 2012 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  280/4 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 204 (46.2 overs)
Tillakaratne Dilshan 119* (139) Mohammad Hafeez 1/30 (8 overs)		Azhar Ali 96 (119) Thisara Perera 6/44 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 76 runs Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy Umpires: Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Thisara Perera (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd ODI

13 June 2012 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Pakistan  12/2 (6.2 overs)	v	Sri Lanka
Azhar Ali 7 (14) Nuwan Kulasekara 1/3 (3 overs)

No result R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

16 June 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  243/8 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 199 (45 overs)
Kumar Sangakkara 97 (130) Mohammad Hafeez 2/37 (10 overs)		Azhar Ali 81* (126) Thisara Perera 4/42 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 44 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Thisara Perera (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Thisara Perera (SL) took his first ODI hat-trick.
• Azhar Ali (Pakistan) became the first player to carry his bat through a completed innings in an ODI since Javed Omar for Bangladesh against Zimbabwe in 2001.^[12]

5th ODI

18 June 2012 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Pakistan  247/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 248/8 (49.4 overs)
Imran Farhat 56 (63) Jeevan Mendis 2/30 (9 overs)		Angelo Mathews 80* (76) Sohail Tanvir 3/42 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Ranmore Martinesz (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Angelo Mathews (SL)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Test series

1st Test

22–26 June 2012 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
472 (153.2 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 199* (562) Saeed Ajmal 5/146 (46 overs)		100 (54.3 overs) Younis Khan 29 (91) Suraj Randiv 4/13 (9.3 overs)
137/5d (41 overs) Tillakaratne Dilshan 56 (58) Junaid Khan 3/44 (13 overs)		300 (114 overs) Younis Khan 87 (213) Nuwan Kulasekara 3/48 (23 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 209 runs Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mohammad Ayub (Pak) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

30 June – 4 July 2012 Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Sri Lanka
551/6d (147 overs) Mohammad Hafeez 196 (331) Rangana Herath 3/164 (49 overs)		391 (124.4 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 192 (351) Junaid Khan 5/73 (28 overs)
100/2d (18 overs) Taufeeq Umar 42* (57) Suraj Randiv 2/28 (4 overs)		86/2 (22 overs) Tharanga Paranavitana 32 (72) Abdur Rehman 1/19 (9 overs)

Match drawn Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Junaid Khan (Pak)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

3rd Test

8–12 July 2012 Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Sri Lanka
226 (72.5 overs) Asad Shafiq 75 (158) Thisara Perera 4/63 (18 overs)		337 (100.2 overs) Thisara Perera 75 (86) Junaid Khan 5/70 (28.2 overs)
380/8d (104 overs) Azhar Ali 136 (284) Rangana Herath 4/99 (39.4 overs)		195/4 (62 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 74* (125) Saeed Ajmal 3/50 (26 overs)

Match drawn Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Asad Shafiq (Pak)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was possible on day 2 due to rain.