Sri Lanka vs Pakistan Scorecard, 1st ODI, Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2019
Result · Sep 27 2019, Fri - 03:30 PM (IST)
Pakistan Sri Lanka Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Match Info
| Series: | Sri Lanka in Pakistan 2019 |
| Date: | Sep 27 2019, Fri - 03:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| City: | Karachi |
| Venue: | National Stadium |
| Toss: | Toss yet to happen |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | - |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | - |
- Pakistan have put together a run of successive victories against Sri Lanka in multi-game bilateral men's ODI series; they haven't enjoyed a longer run since putting together a seven-series streak between 1982 and 1994.
- Pakistan registered a 5-0 victory over Sri Lanka when these sides last met in a bilateral ODI series (October 2017); those fixtures all took place in the United Arab Emirates.
- Sri Lanka have tasted defeat in eight of their last nine men's ODI games against Pakistan; they have lost each of the last six encounters.
- The last six completed men's ODI fixtures played out between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the National Stadium in Karachi have seen the winner alternate; the Lions recorded victory in the most recent such meeting there (21st January 2009).
- Pakistan are set to play a men's ODI game in Karachi for the first time since January 2009; they are playing in such a fixture on home soil for the first time since May 2015.
- Sri Lanka have managed to register eight victories in their last 10 men's ODI games to take place in Pakistan (L2); winning their last two such games there by margins of 129 runs and 234 runs (both in 2009).
- Usman Shinwari (Pakistan) claimed his best ODI figures against Sri Lanka, picking up 5/34 in the most recent encounter between the two sides.
- Imad Wasim is looking to register 1,000 men's ODI runs for Pakistan, he needs 60 to get there; he averages 43 in the format.
- Kusal Mendis (1,973) is approaching 2,000 men's ODI runs for Sri Lanka; he's one run away from recording his highest ever return in a calendar year (currently on 587).
- Pakistan will be without Shaheen Afridi for this series who claimed a five-wicket haul in an ODI for the first time in his most recent appearance (6/35 v Bangladesh); becoming the youngest bowler to record one at a men's Cricket World Cup.