We are into the final game of the Fasinating ICC World Twnety20 World Cup. Its the final between last time finalist Pakistan and Sri Lanks who are yet to be defeated in this tournment.
Srilanka won the toss and elected to bat first. Srilanka had a disastrous start to the ICC World Twnety20 final match. Consistant Opening Batsmen Dilshan was out for a duck in the very first over and Mubarak, who are promoted up the order soon followed in the next over. Srilanka were already into the trouble loosing two wickets in the first two overs. Sangakkara and Jayasuriya tried to repair the damage but Jayasuriya was out trying to increase the run rate ans soon wickets started tumbling at regular intervals. Pakistan spin attack was dangerously spinning the match in pakistan's favour. At one point Srilanka were 6 for 70 from 13 overs and were neck deep in trouble. But Sangakkara made sure that they reached a competitive total and scored a brilliant fifty and had a counter attacking partnership of 68 from 7 overs with Mathews. Sangakkara truely played a captains innings and bailed his team out of humiliation by helping them score a challenging total. Sangakkara scored 64 and he was not out till end with Mathews who scored 35 and helped Srilanka scored a reasonable total. For Pakistan Razzaq took 3 wickets.
Is the total of 138 defendable? srilanka has a good pace attack with Malinga and new kid Mathews in their stand and not to forget the deadly combo of Murali and Mendis in their side. Can the Pakistani's chase this target? they have a new afridi, akmal younus and shoaib malik in their side. lets see how the chase went and who won the most prestigious ICC World Twnety20 Cup.
Pakistan had a great start to their chase when they were 48 for no loss in the first 7 overs. Jayasuriya was introduced in the 8th over and he produced the first breakthrough for Srilanka when Sangakkara Stumped Akmal. Akmal played brilliantly for his 37 and soon Hasan followed him when he was out caught of Muralitharan. That had bring Afridi and Shoaib Malik to the crease. Initially they played very cautiously and were limited to only singles. But once the runrate was increasing, boundaries were hard to come by so both of them cleverly converted ones to twos and kept the score board ticking and made sure that runrate never went high. Once everything was under control and had wickets in their hand, Afridi blasted the bowlers and romped home comfortably with 8 wickets in hand. Afridi scored a brilliant 50 second time in a row. dont forget his majestic 50 in semifinal. Afridi was unconquered on 54 and shoaib was with him till the end with 24. For Srilanks Muralitharan and Jayasuriya took a wicket a piece.
Pakistan are the World Twnety20 Champions.
Afridi was adjudged Man of the Finals and TM Dilshan was adjudged Man of the Series.
Scored board:
Srilanka Innings:
| Name | Runs | |
| TM Dilshan | C Hasan B Aamer | 0 |
| ST Jayasuriya | B Abdul Razzaq | 17 |
| J Mubarak | C Hasan B Razzaq | 0 |
| KC Sangakkara | Not Out | 64 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | C Misbah B Razzaq | 1 |
| LPC Silva | C Ajmal B Gul | 14 |
| I Udana | B Shahid Afridi | 1 |
| AD Mathews | Not Out | 35 |
Bowling:
| Name | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
| Mohammad Aamer | 4 | 1 | 30 | 1 |
| Abdul Razzaq | 3 | 0 | 20 | 3 |
| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
| Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| Shoaib Malik | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Umar Gul | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
Pakistan Innings:
| Name | Runs | |
| Kamran Akmal | St Sangakkara B Jayasuriya | 37 |
| Shahzaid Hasan | C Jayasuriya B Muralitharan | 19 |
| Shahid Afridi | Not Out | 54 |
| Shoaib Malik | Not Out | 24 |
Bowling:
| Name | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
| AD Mathews | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| I Udana | 4 | 0 | 44 | 0 |
| SL Malinga | 3.4 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| M Muralitharan | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
| BAW Mendis | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| ST Jayasuriya | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
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