Pakistan Demolishes Bangladesh! Takes 5-0 Series Win!

With Australia withdrawing the tour to Pakistan citing security concerns as the reason, PCB requested Bangladesh to tour Pakistan. It was agreed by both the cricket boards that Bangladesh will play 5 ODIs during this summer.

All the five matches played in this April, in no match Bangladesh was able to come close to Pakistan except the 3rd ODI in which Pakistan won by 23 runs. Rest of the games were one sided game.



Man of the series was given to Salman Butt of Pakistan for scoring 451 runs in 5 matches at an average of 90.2. His successful series consisted of 2 hundres and 2 fifties.

Short Scores of all five matches:

Match 1: April 8, 2008
Venue: Lahore
Toss: Pakistan and decided to bat
Result: Pakistan won by 152 runs in D/L method
Man of the Match: Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan)Score:
Pakistan 322 for 5 in 50 overs (Salman Butt 33, Mohammad Yousuf 108 not out, Shoaib Malik 85, Misbah-ul-Haq 38, Shaid Afridi 27 not out, Mashrafe Mortaza 2 for 52, Farhad Reza 2 for 41) beat Bangladesh (revised target due to rain under D/L method 282 from 39 overs) 129 all out in 29.5 overs (Mashrafe Mortaza 25, Sohail Tanvir 3 for 29, Iftikhar Anjum 2 for 16, Shahid Afridi 3 for 41)

Match 2: April 11, 2008
Venue: Faisalabad
Toss: Bangladesh and decided to bat
Result: Pakistan won by 7 wickets with 10 balls remaining in D/L method
Man of the Match: Salman Butt (Pakistan)
Score:
Bangladesh 225 for 8 in 48.2 overs (rain stopped play) (Tamim Iqbal 60, Mahmudullah 58 not out, Farhad Reza 26, Dhiman Ghosh 27, Sohail Tanvir 2 for 36, Iftikhar Anjum 2 for 34, Shahid Afridi 3 for 33) lost to Pakistan (revised target due to rain under D/L method 158 from 25 overs) 160 for 3 in 23.2 overs (Salman Butt 76, Mohammad Yousuf 32 not out)

Match 3: April 13, 2008
Venue: Lahore
Toss: Pakistan and decided to bat
Result: Pakistan won by 23 runs
Man of the Match: Salman Butt (Pakistan)
Score:
Pakistan 308 for 8 in 50 overs (Salman Butt 132, Kamran Akmal 100, Shoaib Malik 33, Mashrafe Mortaza 2 for 47, Shakib Al Hasan 2 for 50) beat Bangladesh 285 for 7 in 50 overs (Tamim Iqbal 63, Aftab Ahmed 42, Shakib Al Hasan 75, Shahid Afridi 2 for 48)

Match 4: April 16, 2008
Venue: Multan
Toss: Bangladesh and decided to bat
Result: Pakistan won by 7 wickets with 33 balls remaining
Man of the Match: Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Score:
Bangladesh 210 all out in 49.1 overs (Shakib Al Hasan 108, Mashrafe Mortaza 38, Mohammad Asif 2 for 35, Umar Gul 3 for 48, Sohail Khan 3 for 30) lost to Pakistan 212 for 3 in 44.3 overs (Salman Butt 74, Kamran Akmal 36, Bazid Khan 51, Mohammad Yousuf 37 not out)

Match 5: April 19, 2008
Venue: Karachi
Toss: Pakistan and decided to bat
Result: Pakistan won by 150 runs
Man of the Match: Mohammad Asif (Pakistan)
Score:
Pakistan 329 for 9 in 50 overs (Salman Butt 136, Younis Khan 69, Shoaib Malik 27, Misbah-ul-Haq 35, Mashrafe Mortaza 4 for 65, Shahadat Hossain 3 for 76, Abdur Razzak 2 for 56) beat Bangladesh 179 all out in 40.5 overs (Mohammad Ashraful 30, Mahmudullah 37, Dhiman Ghosh 29, Abdur Razzak 33, Mohammad Asif 3 for 35, Umar Gul 2 for 41, Shahid Afridi 3 for 40, Wahab Riaz 2 for 23)

Match 9: Bad Luck for Sri Lanka, Chance for India to Enter Final!!

Rain saves Australia, proves costly for Sri Lanka. Winning the toss and rightly decided to field, Sri Lanka restricted Australia to 184 in 50 overs. Only Clarke and Hussey showed some fight, but couldn't take past beyond 200 mark. Maharoof was the pick of the bowlers and he maintained the line and length very well. Aussies were losing wickets regularly except for 90-run partnership for the 5th wicket between Hussey and Clarke.

Sri Lankan innings didn't start well; once again, they lost the openers with 3 runs on the board. Sangakkara and Jayawardane built the innings this time too, but that was not enough was Sri Lanka. When both of them were out, the score was 64 in 25 overs. Silva and Dilashan played sensibly to take the score to 77 in the 30th over. The rain stopped the play and it never looked like resuming again. As per Duckworth/Lewis method, Sri Lanka should have reached 102 in 29.3 overs, but they were 77. So, Aussies won by 24 runs and are ready to play India in the next game.

Now, for Sri Lanka to enter the finals they have to win both the matches and India has to lose the match against Australia.

Final Score:
Australia 184 for 6 in 50 overs (Michale Clarke 50, Hussey 64 not out, Maharoof 2 for 20, Muralitharan 2 for 37) beat Sri Lanka by 24 runs in D/L method--77 for 4 in 29.3 overs but should have scored 102 in 29.3 overs to win when rain stopped play (Jayawardane 27, Stuart Clark 2 for 8)

Man of the Match: Hussey (Australia)