Sri Lanka scored greater than 300 runs regardless of Pakistan getting six wickets on the primary day of the second Take a look at match on the Galle Worldwide Stadium. Pakistan bowlers needed to sweat it out to get wickets on the bowling-friendly pitch as Sri Lanka posted 315/6 in simply 86 overs on Day 1. On the finish of the day, star Pakistani all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz said that the bowlers didn’t get a lot assist from the pitch as anticipated and Pakistan let the hosts rating a bit of bit an excessive amount of.
Pakistan managed to chase a record-breaking 342-run goal on Day 5 of the primary Take a look at match on the similar venue. Nawaz took 5 wickets within the second innings and remained unbeaten on 19 runs on the finish of the chase. As anticipated, the pitch proved heaven for the spin bowlers within the first match but it surely was not the identical case on Sunday (July 24) within the second and ultimate fixture of this sequence. Sri Lankan batters regarded sturdy enjoying towards the likes of Yasir Shah and Nawaz from the beginning of the innings.
“I feel we allow them to rating a bit of bit an excessive amount of. The pitch isn’t like the primary Take a look at; it wasn’t turning and the pitch was gradual. I feel we’d have been higher served by squeezing the rating relatively than attacking. As a result of the pitch was very gradual and the wickets weren’t coming as simply, you wanted to work particularly arduous for them. So if we’d restricted their rating, maybe the wickets would have come simpler,” Mohammad Nawaz stated on the finish of day one.
Mohammad Nawaz defends skipper Babar Azam
Pakistani fielders got here underneath scrutiny as soon as once more for dropping a couple of straightforward catches on Day 1. Skipper Babar Azam, who is a superb fielder, dropped two catches and Hasan Ali dropped one other. The scoreboard would have been solely totally different had these catches not been dropped. Whereas Nawaz feels that it’s uncommon to see Babar dropping catches, he defended his skipper, saying that anybody could make errors.
