Pakistani national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 2015 season

The 2015 season tour of the Pakistani national cricket team to Sri Lanka took place from June 17 to August 1, 2015. The international cricket tour was part of the 2015 International Cricket Season and included three Tests , five ODIs and two Twenty20s . Pakistan won the Test Series 2–1, the ODI Series 3–2 and the Twenty20 Series 2–0.

prehistory

Pakistan last played a tour against Zimbabwe , for Sri Lanka it is the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in Sri Lanka in 2014 .

Stages

Colombo (RPS) Hambantota bile Kandy Dambulla Colombo (PSS)

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on May 8, 2015.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Colombo	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (PSS)	15,000	2nd test
Colombo	R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	35,000	3rd & 4th ODI; 1st & 2nd T20
Dambulla	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	16,800	1. ODI
bile	Galle International Stadium	35,000	1st test
Hambantota	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	35,000	5. ODI
Kandy	Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	35,000	3rd test; 2. ODI

Squad lists

Pakistan named its test squad on June 3, its ODI squad on July 3, and the Twenty20 squad on July 22, 2015. Sri Lanka named its test squad on June 10, 2015, its ODI squad on June 7, 2015 July and his Twenty20 squad on July 23, 2015.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Angelo Mathews ( K ) Lahiru Thirimanne ( UK ) Dushmantha Chameera Dinesh Chandimal ( wk ) Lahiru Gamage Rangana Herath Dimuth Karunaratne Tharindu Kaushal Suranga Lakmal Jehan Mubarak Kusal Perera Dilruwan Perera Nuwan Pradeep Dhammika Prasad Kumar Sangakkara Kaushal Silva Upul Tharanga Kithuruwan Vithanage	Misbah-ul-Haq ( K ) Azhar Ali ( UK ) Ehsan Adil Sarfraz Ahmed ( wk ) Rahat Ali Babar Azam Zulfiqar Babar Mohammad Hafeez Imran Khan Junaid Khan Younis Khan Shan Masood Wahab Riaz Ahmed Shehzad Asad Shafiq Yasir Shah Haris Sohail	Angelo Mathews ( K ) Dinesh Chandimal ( wk ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Lahiru Gamage Suranga Lakmal Lasith Malinga Sachith Pathirana Kusal Perera Thisara Perera Nuwan Pradeep Seekuge Prasanna Ashan Priyanjan Sachithra Senanayake Milinda Siriwardana Upul Tharanga Lahiru Thirimanne	Azhar Ali ( K ) Sarfraz Ahmed ( UK , wk ) Ehsan Adil Mukhtar Ahmed Anwar Ali Rahat Ali Bilal Asif Babar Azam Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Irfan Shoaib Malik Mohammad Rizwan Asad Shafiq Yasir Shah Ahmed Shehzad Imad Wasim	Lasith Malinga ( K ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Binura Fernando Shehan Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Angelo Mathews Kusal Perera ( wk ) Thisara Perera Dasun Shanaka Chaturanga de Silva Dhananjaya de Silva Milinda Siriwardana Jeffrey Vandersay Kithruwan Vithanage	Shahid Afridi ( K ) Sarfraz Ahmed ( UK , wk ) Mukhtar Ahmed Umar Akmal Anwar Ali Nauman Anwar Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Irfan Shoaib Malik Wahab Riaz Mohammad Rizwan Yasir Shah Ahmed Shehzad Sohail Tanvir Imad Wasim Zia-ul-Haq

Tour match

June 11-13 scorecard	Colombo (CCC)	Pakistanis 247 (73.3) & 257 (69.4)	-	Sri Lanka 241 (89.1) & 129-3 (27)
		draw

Testing

First test in bile

June 17-21 Scorecard	bile	Sri Lanka 300 (109.3) & 206 (77.1)	-	Pakistan 417 (113.1) & 92-0 (11.2)
		Pakistan wins with 10 wickets

Second test in Colombo

June 25-29 Scorecard	Colombo (PSS)	Pakistan 138 (42.5) & 329 (118.2)	-	Sri Lanka 315 (121.3) & 153-3 (26.3)
		Sri Lanka wins with 7 wickets

Third test in Kandy

July 3-7 scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 278 (89.5) & 313 (95.4)	-	Pakistan 215 (66) & 382-3 (103.1)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dambulla

July 11th scorecard	Dambulla	Sri Lanka 255-8 (50)	-	Pakistan 259-4 (45.2)
		Pakistan wins with 6 wickets

Second ODI in Kandy

July 15th scorecard	Kandy	Pakistan 287-8 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 288-8 (48.1)
		Sri Lanka wins with 2 wickets

Third ODI in Colombo

July 19th scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Pakistan 316-4 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 181 (41.1)
		Pakistan wins with 135 runs

Fourth ODI in Colombo

July 22nd scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Sri Lanka 256-9 (50)	-	Pakistan 257-3 (40.5)
		Pakistan wins with 7 wickets

Fifth ODI in Hambantota

July 26th scorecard	Hambantota	Sri Lanka 368-4 (50)	-	Pakistan 203 (37.2)
		Sri Lanka wins with 165 runs

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Colombo

July 30th scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Pakistan 175-5 (20)	-	Sri Lanka 146-7 (20)
		Pakistan wins with 29 runs

Second Twenty20 in Colombo

August 1st scorecard	Colombo (RPS)	Sri Lanka 172-7 (20)	-	Pakistan 174-9 (19.2)
		Pakistan wins with 1 wicket

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	3	6th	318	53.00	130	1	2
Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	3	6th	269	53.80	122	1	1
Younis Khan	Pakistan	3	5	267	66.75	171 *	1	0
Kaushal Silva	Sri Lanka	3	5	222	44.40	125	1	1
Azhar Ali	Pakistan	3	5	208	41.60	117	1	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Yasir Shah	Pakistan	3	176.3	24	19.33	7/76	3	0
Dhammika Prasad	Sri Lanka	3	107.3	14th	27.07	4/92	0	0
Tharindu Kaushal	Sri Lanka	2	80.5	9	34.22	5/42	1	0
Zulfiqar Babar	Pakistan	2	81	6th	36.50	3/64	0	0
Imran Khan	Pakistan	1	36.4	5	21.80	5/58	1	0
Wahab Riaz	Pakistan	2	51	5	27.80	3/74	0	0
Rahat Ali	Pakistan	1	42	5	31.20	3/74	0	0
Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka	2	53	5	33.80	3/29	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	5	5	273	54.60	103	1	2
Kusal Perera	Sri Lanka	5	5	230	46.00	116	1	1
Azhar Ali	Pakistan	5	5	217	43.40	79	0	1
Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	5	5	216	43.20	95	0	1
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	5	5	211	42.20	62	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Rahat Ali	Pakistan	5	41.1	9	29.44	3/73	0	0
Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	5	20th	6th	17.00	4/41	0	0
Anwar Ali	Pakistan	5	35	6th	34.50	2/24	0	0
Yasir Shah	Pakistan	5	48	6th	41.50	4/29	0	0
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	4th	37	4th	61.50	2/64	0	0
Mohammad Irfan	Pakistan	5	47	4th	64.25	3/50	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Chamara Kapugedera	Sri Lanka	2	2	79		48 *	0	0
Milinda Siriwardana	Sri Lanka	2	2	58	29.00	35	0	0
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	2	2	54	54.00	46 *	0	0
Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	2	2	53	26.50	46	0	0
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	2	2	53	26.50	45	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan	2	8th	4th	18.25	3/29	0	0
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	2	4th	3	8.33	2/16	0	0
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	2	8th	3	19.00	2/30	0	0
Anwar Ali	Pakistan	2	8th	3	22.33	2/27	0	0
Binura Fernando	Sri Lanka	2	7.2	3	23.66	2/33	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Yasir Shah
ODI	Mohammad Hafeez
T20	Shoaib Malik

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Sarfraz Ahmed
2nd test	Dhammika Prasad
3rd test	Younis Khan
1. ODI	Mohammad Hafeez
2. ODI	Kusal Perera
3. ODI	Sarfraz Ahmed
4. ODI	Ahmed Shehzad
5. ODI	Kusal Perera
1. T20	Sohail Tanvir
2. T20	Anwar Ali

Web links

The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Third Pakistan Test shifted to Pallekele . Cricinfo. May 8, 2015. Accessed May 13, 2015.
2. ^ Shehzad, Masood picked for SL Tests; Ajmal dropped ( English ) Cricinfo. June 3, 2015. Accessed May 13, 2016.
3. ↑ Mohammad Irfan returns to ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. June 3, 2015. Accessed May 13, 2016.
4. ↑ Pakistan pick Yasir, Irfan for SL T20s ( English ) Cricinfo. July 22, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
5. ↑ Mubarak back in Test squad for Pakistan series ( English ) Cricinfo. June 10, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
6. ↑ Uncapped Siriwardana, Pathirana in ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. July 7, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
7. ↑ Five uncapped players in SL squad for Pakistan T20s ( English ) Cricinfo. July 23, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2015 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2015 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2015 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2015 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2015 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / Pakistan in Sri Lanka T20I Series, 2015 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved May 15, 2016.