Sri Lanka Board President's XI v Pakistan 'B' - 3 Day Match - 1986/7 - Board President's XI 1st Innings

Sri Lanka Board President's XI v Pakistan 'B' - 3 Day Match - Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - 9th August, 1986/7

Toss: Pakistan 'B'

Pitch: 82

With the pitch Green for the first day of the match, the Pakistan 'B' team won the toss and elected to bowl first.
It paid dividends, with the seamers claiming early wickets to leave the home team in trouble at 78/6.
Legspinning allrounder Asoka de Silva then joined batsman Hashan Tillekeratne in a match turning partnership that put the pressure back on the visitors.
The pair added an unbroken 152* for the 7th wicket, with Tillekeratne posting a classy century under difficult circumstances, and de Silva a fighting fifty.
Captain Ranjan Madugalle declared when the score reached 230/6, keen to give his seamers a chance while the pitch was still Green.
Azeem Hafeez was the pick of the bowlers with 3 early top order wickets in 3-44.

Sri Lanka Board President's XI 1st Innings 230/6 Declared (Overs 64.4)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs	Min	Bls	4s	6s
S Wettimuny	c Manzoor Elahi	b Azeem Hafeez	13	42	42	2	0
DSBP Kuruppu	c Manzoor Elahi	b Mohsin Kamal	9	51	24	1	0
AP Gurusinha	c Ashraf Ali	b Azeem Hafeez	0	3	2	0	0
RS Madugalle*		b Azeem Hafeez	23	44	28	3	0
PA de Silva	c Manzoor Elahi	b Naved Anjum	18	62	49	1	0
HP Tillekeratne	not out		103	167	123	11	0
RG de Alwis+	c Qasim Omar	b Naved Anjum	0	4	2	0	0
EAR de Silva	not out		52	140	124	2	0
VB John	dnb
CPH Ramanayake	dnb
SD Anurasiri	dnb
extras		(b0 lb6 w5 nb1)	12
TOTAL		6 wickets for	230

FOW
1-22(S Wettimuny) 2-22(AP Gurusinha) 3-22(DSBP Kuruppu) 4-64(RS Madugalle)
5-78(PA de Silva) 6-78(RG de Alwis)

Bowler	Overs	Maid	Runs	Wkts
Azeem Hafeez	14.4	1	44	3
Mohsin Kamal	11	3	36	1
Naved Anjum	13	3	39	2
Manzoor Elahi	10	2	30	0
Aamer Malik	7	0	38	0
Nadeem Khan	7	0	31	0
Asif Mujtaba	2	0	6	0