Pakistan ask Sri Lanka to bat in first one-dayer

Karachi, July 30: Pakistan captain Younus Khan won the toss and sent Sri Lanka in to bat in the first one-day international of the five-match series here on Thursday:

Pakistan: Younus Khan (capt), Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul Haq, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Aamer, Abdul Razzaq, Fawad Alam.

Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara (capt), Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan, Thilan Thushara.

Umpires: Steve Davis (AUS) and Asoka de Silva (SRI)

TV umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (SRI)

Match referee: Alan Hurst (AUS)

—-Agencies