Sri Lankan national cricket team in Pakistan for the 2019/20 season

The tour of the Sri Lankan national cricket team to Pakistan in the 2019/20 season took place from September 27th to October 9th and from December 11th to 23rd, 2019. The international cricket tour was part of the 2019/20 international cricket season and included two tests , three ODIs and three Twenty20s . The test series is part of the ICC World Test Championship 2019-2021 . Pakistan won the Test Series 1-0 and the ODI Series 2-0, while Sri Lanka won the Twenty20 Series 3-0.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2017/18 season in the United Arab Emirates . Following terror threats, the tour was about to be canceled after numerous Sri Lankan players had already refused to travel to Pakistan. After a review of the security precautions and the guarantee that the measure will be aligned with that of visits by heads of state, Sri Lanka decided to take it anyway. On November 14, 2019, it was announced that Sri Lanka will also do a test series in Pakistan. It is the first test series in Pakistan since the attack on the Sri Lankan national team in Lahore in 2009 .

Stages

Karachi Lahore Rawalpindi

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
National Stadium	Karachi	34,228	2. test; 1st - 3rd ODI
Gaddafi Stadium	Lahore	60,000	1st - 3rd T20
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	Rawalpindi	25,000	1st test

Squad lists

Sri Lanka named its Limited Overs squad on September 11 and its test squad on November 29, 2019. Pakistan named its ODI roster on September 21 and the Twenty20 roster on October 2, 2019.

test		ODI		Twenty20
Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Azhar Ali ( K ) Mohammad Abbas Shaheen Afridi Fawad Alam Abid Ali Babar Azam Kashif Bhatti Imran Khan Shan Masood Mohammad Rizwan ( wk ) Asad Shafiq Naseem Shah Yasir Shah Usman Shinwari Haris Sohail Imam-ul-Haq	Dimuth Karunaratne ( K ) Dinesh Chandimal Niroshan Dickwella Lasith Embuldeniya Oshada Fernando Vishwa Fernando Lahiru Kumara Suranga Lakmal Angelo Mathews Kusal Mendis Dilruwan Perera Kusal Perera ( wk ) Kasun Rajitha Lakshan Sandakan Dhananjaya de Silva Lahiru Thirimanne	Sarfaraz Ahmed ( K , wk ) Babar Azam ( UK ) Iftikhar Ahmed Abid Ali Asif Ali Mohammad Amir Mohammad Hasnain Shadab Khan Mohammad Nawaz Wahab Riaz Mohammad Rizwan Usman Shinwari Haris Sohail Imam-ul-Haq Imad Wasim Fakhar Zaman	Lahiru Thirimanne ( K ) Minod Bhanuka Avishka Fernando Oshada Fernando Danushka Gunathilaka Wanindu Hasaranga Shehan Jayasuriya Lahiru Kumara Angelo Perera Nuwan Pradeep Kasun Rajitha Sadeera Samarawickrama ( wk ) Lakshan Sandakan Dasun Shanaka Isuru Udana	Sarfaraz Ahmed ( K , wk ) Babar Azam ( UK ) Iftikhar Ahmed Asif Ali Umar Akmal Mohammad Amir Faheem Ashraf Mohammad Hasnain Shadab Khan Mohammad Nawaz Wahab Riaz Ahmed Shehzad Usman Shinwari Haris Sohail Imam-ul-Haq Imad Wasim Fakhar Zaman	Dasun Shanaka ( K ) Minod Bhanuka Avishka Fernando Oshada Fernando Danushka Gunathilaka Wanindu Hasaranga Shehan Jayasuriya Lahiru Kumara Lahiru Madushanka Angelo Perera Nuwan Pradeep Bhanuka Rajapaksa Kasun Rajitha Sadeera Samarawickrama ( wk ) Lakshan Sandakan Isuru Udana

One-day internationals

First ODI in Karachi

September 27 scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan	-	Sri Lanka
		Called off

Second ODI in Karachi

September 30th scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan 305-7 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 238 (46.5)
		Pakistan wins with 67 runs

Originally, the 2nd ODI was supposed to take place the day before, but was postponed by one day due to the persistent rainfall.

Third ODI in Karachi

October 2nd scorecard	Karachi	Sri Lanka 297-9 (50)	-	Pakistan 299-5 (48.2)
		Pakistan wins with 5 wickets

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Lahore

October 5th scorecard	Lahore	Sri Lanka 165-5 (20)	-	Pakistan 101 (17.4)
		Sri Lanka wins with 64 runs

Second Twenty20 in Lahore

October 7th scorecard	Lahore	Sri Lanka 182-6 (20)	-	Pakistan 147 (19)
		Sri Lanka wins with 35 runs

Third Twenty20 in Lahore

October 9 scorecard	Lahore	Sri Lanka 147-7 (20)	-	Pakistan 134-6 (20)
		Sri Lanka wins with 13 runs

Testing

First test in Rawalpindi

December 11-15 Scorecard	Rawalpindi	Sri Lanka 308-6d (97)	-	Pakistan 252-2 (70)
		draw

Second test in Karachi

December 19-23 Scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan 191 (59.3) & 555-3d (131)	-	Sri Lanka 271 (85.5) & 212 (62.5)
		Pakistan wins with 263 runs

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrew Fidel Fernando: Sri Lanka Cricket to reassess security in Pakistan after terror threat ( English ) Cricinfo. September 11, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
2. ↑ Umar Farooq & Madushka Balasuriya: Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan to go ahead as planned ( English ) Cricinfo. September 19, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
3. ↑ Pakistan to play Sri Lanka in first home Test since 2009 ( English ) BBC. November 14, 2019. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
4. ↑ Thirimanne, Shanaka to lead Sri Lanka in Pakistan ( English ) Cricinfo. September 11, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
5. ↑ Mathews, Chandimal to tour Pakistan as Sri Lanka name full-strength Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. November 29, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
6. ↑ Umar Farooq: Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Nawaz return to Pakistan's ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. September 21, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
7. ↑ Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad return to Pakistan T20I squad ( English ) Cricinfo. October 2, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
8. ↑ Danyal Rasool: Heavy unseasonal rains force second ODI to be postponed to September 30 ( English ) Cricinfo. September 27, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.