Dilshan Madushanka handed Test cap as Sri Lanka bat against unchanged Pakistan

Toss Sri Lanka selected to bat vs Pakistan

Sri Lanka gained the toss and elected to bat first within the second Check towards Pakistan. In a single day rain meant a moist outfield delayed the beginning of play by half-hour on the SSC.

The pitch was anticipated to be higher for batting early on throughout the Check, with good tempo and constant bounce. The in a single day rain might have meant imply some seam motion early on, with moisture probably trapped underneath the floor. The monitor was anticipated to take progressively extra flip from day three onwards. The dangerous information was that there’s rain forecast for every day of the Check.

Sri Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne stated that the previous few days in Colombo have been fairly scorching, so he anticipated any moisture on the floor to dry up fairly shortly. He stated that he wished his spinners to have the very best of bowling situations.

Sri Lanka: 1 Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), 2 Nishan Madushka, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Dinesh Chandimal, 6 Dhananjaya de Silva, 7 Sadeera Samarawickrama (wk), 8 Ramesh Mendis, 9 Prabath Jayasuriya, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Dilshan Madushanka

Pakistan1 Abdullah Shafique, 2 Imam-ul-Haq, 3 Shan Masood, 4 Babar Azam (captcha), 5 Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), 6 Saud Shakeel, 7 Agha Salman, 8 Noman Ali, 9 Naseem Shah, 10 Abrar Ahmed, 11 Shaheen Shah Afridi