Pakistan v Sri Lanka: tri-series cricket one-day international final – live
Slight technical hitch here, as I’ve lost transmission, bear with me a minute.
Pakistan: Maaz Sadaqat, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, Saad Baig (wk), Salman Agha, Hasan Nawaz, Arafat Minhas, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf.
Sri Lanka: Kamindu Mendis, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Mendis (c, wk), Pavan Rathnayake, Sahan Arachchige, Janith Liyanage, Dasun Shanaka, Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Asitha Fernando, Dilshan Madushanka
A pleased Shaheen Shah Afridi announces one change – a poorly Shadab is replace by Faheem Ashraf. Sri Lanka, who lose a toss at last, also have one change, Maheesh Theekshana steps into Eshan Malinga’s boots.
Good morning! It’s final time in the triangular tournament world, where Pakistan and Sri Lanka are about to battle it out at the Gadaffi Stadium in Lahore. You may think there are more interesting things going on in Cape Town, but actually this competition has been a mini-classic, with Sri Lanka’s suddenly powerhouse batting stealing the sunshine, Pakistan finding their bowling boots and England repeatedly pulling defeat from behind victory’s left ear.
Pakistan lost their most recent match against Sri Lanka, but come off the back of four wins prior to that; Duckett and Dawson got the better of Sri Lanka in the consolation win on Thursday, but it was close, so fingers crossed for an evenly-matched belter.
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