Pakistani national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 2012 season

The 2012 season tour of the Pakistani national cricket team to Sri Lanka took place from June 1 to July 12, 2012. The international cricket tour was part of the 2012 international cricket season and included two Twenty20s , five ODIs and three test matches . Sri Lanka won the Test series 1-0 and the ODI series 3-1, while the Twenty20 series ran out 1-1.

prehistory

The last tour of the two teams was held the year before in the United Arab Emirates and was clearly dominated by Pakistan. Since this was the beginning of a season at the end of which the ICC World Twenty20 took place in 2012 , the Twenty20 series of the two teams was seen in preparation for it. As a result, Pakistan installed a new captain in Mohammad Hafeez , after the previous Misbah-ul-Haq had resigned.

Stages

Colombo (RPS) Colombo (SSC) bile Hambantota Kandy

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on April 29, 2012.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Colombo	R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	35,000	3rd to 5th ODI
Colombo	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	10,000	2nd test
bile	Galle International Stadium	35,000	1st test
Hambantota	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	35,000	1st & 2nd T20
Kandy	Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	35,000	3rd test; 1st & 2nd ODI

Squad lists

Pakistan named its roster on May 10, 2012. Sri Lanka announced its provisional roster on May 14, 2012, the limited-over roster on May 24, and the test roster on June 19, 2012.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Mahela Jayawarden ( K ) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Prasanna Jayawardene ( wk ) Nuwan Kulasekara Angelo Mathews Jeevan Mendis Tharanga Paranavitana Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Suraj Randiv Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chanaka Welegedara	Misbah-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdur Rehman Adnan Akmal ( wk ) Afaq Raheem Aizaz Cheema Asad Shafiq Azhar Ali Faisal Iqbal Junaid Khan Mohammad Ayub Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Saeed Ajmal Taufeeq Umar Umar Gul Younis Khan	Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Jeevan Mendis Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne	Misbah-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdur Rehman Aizaz Cheema Asad Shafiq Azhar Ali Imran Farhat Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Rahat Ali Saeed Ajmal Sarfraz Ahmed ( wk ) Shahid Afridi Sohail Tanvir Umar Akmal Umar Gul Younis Khan	Mahela Jayawardene ( K ) Dinesh Chandimal Tillakaratne Dilshan Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Kaushal Lokuarachchi Lasith Malinga Angelo Mathews Thisara Perera Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Sachithra Senanayake Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne Isuru Udana	Mohammad Hafeez ( K ) Ahmed Shehzad Hammad Azam Haris Sohail Khalid Latif Mohammad Sami Raza Hasan Saeed Ajmal Shahid Afridi Shakeel Ansae ( wk ) Shoaib Malik Sohail Tanvir Umar Akmal Umar Gul Yasir Arafat

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Hambantota

June 1st scorecard	Hambantota	Sri Lanka 132-7 (20)	-	Pakistan 95 (17.4)
		Sri Lanka wins with 37 runs

Second Twenty20 in Hambantota

June 3 scorecard	Hambantota	Pakistan 122-6 (20)	-	Sri Lanka 99 (19.2)
		Pakistan wins with 23 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Kandy

June 7th scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 135-8 (42/42)	-	Pakistan 135-4 (34.1 / 42)
		Pakistan wins with 6 wickets ( D / L method )

Second ODI in Kandy

June 9th scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 280-4 (50)	-	Pakistan 204 (46.2)
		Sri Lanka wins with 76 runs

Third ODI in Colombo (RPS)

June 13 scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Pakistan 12-2 (6.2)	-	Sri Lanka
		No result

Fourth ODI in Colombo (RPS)

June 16 scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Sri Lanka 243-8 (50)	-	Pakistan 199 (45)
		Sri Lanka wins with 44 runs

Fifth ODI in Colombo (RPS)

June 18 scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Pakistan 247-7 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 248-8 (49.4)
		Sri Lanka wins with 2 wickets

Since Pakistan was too slow to play in this game, the players were fined and the captain Misbah-ul-Haq with a first test suspension.

Testing

First test in bile

June 22-26 scorecard	bile	Sri Lanka 472 (153.2) & 137-5d (41)	-	Pakistan 100 (54.3) & 300 (114)
		Sri Lanka wins with 209 runs

Second test in Colombo (SSC)

June 30th - July 4th scorecard	Colombo (SSC)	Pakistan 551-6d (147) & 100-2d (18)	-	Sri Lanka 391 (124.4) & 86-2 (22)
		draw

Third test in Kandy

July 8-12 scorecard	Kandy	Pakistan 226 (72.5) & 380-8d (104)	-	Sri Lanka 337 (100.2) & 195-4 (62)
		draw

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	3	6th	490	163.33	199 *	2	1
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	3	6th	315	52.50	196	1	1
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	2	4th	306	76.50	121	2	1
Azhar Ali	Pakistan	3	5	300	60.00	157	2	0
Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	3	5	257	64.25	100 *	1	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	3	171.3	15th	28.33	4/99	0	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	3	155	15th	29.93	5/146	1	0
Junaid Khan	Pakistan	3	101.2	14th	21.78	5/70	2	0
Suraj Randiv	Sri Lanka	2	74.3	10	25.80	4/13	0	0
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	3	112	8th	36.37	3/48	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Azhar Ali	Pakistan	5	5	217	54.25	96	0	2
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	5	4th	164	41.00	97	0	1
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	5	4th	158	52.66	119 *	1	0
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	5	5	146	36.50	57	0	1
Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	5	4th	104	26.00	54	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	5	34.1	11	15.54	6/44	1	0
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	5	39.2	7th	22.00	2/33	0	0
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	5	35	7th	22.14	2/30	0	0
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	5	38	6th	19.50	2/20	0	0
Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan	5	37	6th	27.66	3/42	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	2	2	53	53.00	52 *	0	1
Lahiru Thirimanne	Sri Lanka	2	2	48	24.00	30th	0	0
Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	2	2	42	21.00	36	0	0
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	2	2	36	18.00	27	0	0
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	2	2	32	32.00	32 *	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	2	7th	4th	6.50	2/13	0	0
Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan	2	8th	4th	6.75	3/12	0	0
Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	2	5	4th	9.50	3/16	0	0
Yasir Arafat	Pakistan	1	3.2	3	6.00	3/18	0	0
Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	2	8th	3	13.33	2/20	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Kumar Sangakkara
ODI	Thisara Perera
T20	Sohail Tanvir

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. T20	Thisara Perera
2. T20	Shahid Afridi
1. ODI	Umar Gul
2. ODI	Thisara Perera
4. ODI	Thisara Perera
5. ODI	Angelo Mathews
1st test	Kumar Sangakkara
2nd test	Junaid Khan
3rd test	Asad Shafiq

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Pakistan set for full tour of Sri Lanka ( English ) Cricinfo. April 29, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Misbah steps down as Twenty20 captain ( English ) Cricinfo. May 10, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
3. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Pakistan set for full tour of Sri Lanka ( English ) Cricinfo. April 29, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
4. ↑ Mohammad Sami and Faisal Iqbal recalled ( English ) Cricinfo. May 10, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
5. ↑ Ajantha Mendis in Sri Lanka named provisional squad ( English ) Cricinfo. May 14, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
6. ↑ Sri Lanka recall Jeevan Mendis, Fernando ( English ) Cricinfo. May 24, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
7. ↑ Perera, Kulasekara in Sri Lanka Test Squad ( English ) Cricinfo. June 19, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
8. ↑ Misbah-ul-Haq suspended for over-rate offense ( English ) Cricinfo. June 19, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
9. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2012 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2012 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2012 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
14. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2012 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 20, 2016.