| GEO Sports | | Pakistan collapse again against SL | Updated at: 1413 PST, Saturday, August 01, 2009
 DAMBULLA: Pakistan’s poor batting performance against Sri Lanka continued in the second One-day International when they collapsed for 168 runs in 47 overs here at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Saturday.
Interestingly, the top-scorer for Pakistan was ‘Mr Extras’ which were 26 runs and tail-ender Mohammad Aamer scored an unbeaten 24. Captain Younis Khan made 23 runs.
Among others, debutant Umar Akmal made 18, followed by Abdul Razzaq (17), Saeed Ajmal (16), Umar Gul (14), Kamran Akmal (13) and Fawad Alam (10).
The last pair of Mohammad Aamer and Saeed Ajmal provided useful resistance and added 40 runs from 52 balls for the tenth wicket partnership.
Shahid Afridi could score only seven runs while opener Nasir Jamshed and allrounder Shoaib Malik got out for duck.
For Sri Lanka, pacer Thilan Tushara claimed three wickets for 33 runs and off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan got two while Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara and Sanath Jayasuriya took one wicket each. |  |
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