Pakistan Win Toss, Elect to Field
Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 12:19 pm
GALLE: Pakistan won the toss and elected to field in the first against Sri Lanka here on Saturday.
Pakistan playing without Danish Kaneria replaced by off spinner Saeed Ajmal. Two Pakistani fast bowlers were debutants – the 17-year-old Mohammad Aaamer and the 30-year-old Abdur Rauf.
Amid the debutants, Mohammad Yousuf made a comeback, becoming the first ICL player to play a Test match again.
Sri Lanka went in without a specialist wicketkeeper. Instead they gave a Test cap to Angelo Mathews. The 31-year-old left-arm spinner, Rangana Herath, replaced Muttiah Muralitharan who injured his knee during practice. Unlike Pakistan, Sri Lanka went in with only two medium-pacers, Nuwan Kulasekara and the left-armer Thilan Thushara. Mathews provided them the fifth-bowler option.
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