Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan in 2004–05

Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan in 2004–05
	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Dates	6 October 2004 – 28 November 2004
Captains	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Marvan Atapattu
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Shoaib Malik (204)	Sanath Jayasuriya (424)
Most wickets	Danish Kaneria (15)	Rangana Herath (11)
Player of the series	Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri)

The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured Pakistan from 6 October to 28 November 2004. The tour consisted of two Test matches.^[1][2]

Paktel Cup

Paktel Cup was a One Day International triangular cricket tournament, played amongst Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The tournament was held in Pakistan from 30 September 2004 to 16 October 2004. The tournament consisted of a round-robin stage, in which each nation played the others two times each. The top two teams (Pakistan and Sri Lanka) participated in the final of the series.^[3]

Group stage
Pos	Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Runs for (overs)	Runs against (overs)	Points
1	Pakistan	4	4	0	0	0	+0.612	1,080 (195.4)	925 (200.0)	21
2	Sri Lanka	4	1	2	0	1	+0.499	633 (118.1)	634 (147.3)	11
3	Zimbabwe	4	0	3	0	1	−1.508	504 (150.0)	658 (116.2)	4

Test series

1st Test

20–24 October 2004 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
243 (81.4 overs) Thilan Samaraweera 100 (232) Shoaib Akhtar 5/60 (19 overs)		264 (84.1 overs) Yasir Hameed 58 (102) Rangana Herath 3/68 (27.1 overs)
438 (109.2 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 253 (348) Danish Kaneria 4/117 (38.2 overs)		216 (79.2 overs) Imran Farhat 53 (63) Rangana Herath 4/64 (32.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 201 runs Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Steve Bucknor (WIN) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd Test

28 October – 1 November 2004 Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Pakistan
208 (82.1 overs) Romesh Kaluwitharana 54 (104) Abdul Razzaq 5/35 (23.1 overs)		478 (137.1 overs) Younis Khan 124 (244) Dilhara Fernando 3/96 (22.1 overs)
406 (141.5 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 138 (251) Danish Kaneria 7/118 (60 overs)		139/4 (37 overs) Shoaib Malik 53* (60) Chaminda Vaas 2/45 (14 overs)

Pakistan won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Steve Bucknor (WIN) Player of the match: Danish Kaneria (PAK)

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
• Test debuts: Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Riaz Afridi (Pakistan)

References

External links

• Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan, 2004/05