{"id":96708,"date":"2026-01-07T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=96708"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:51:17","slug":"pak-vs-sl-green-shirts-thrashes-sri-lanka-to-win-t20i-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-sl-green-shirts-thrashes-sri-lanka-to-win-t20i-series-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs SL: Green Shirts thrashes Sri Lanka to win T20I series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAMBULLA: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the first match of the 3-match <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-wins-toss-against-sri-lanka-in-t20-series-opener\/\">T20 series<\/a> to take a 0-1 lead in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan achieved Sri Lanka\u2019s target of 129 runs in the 17th over for the loss of 4 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha won the toss and invited the hosts, Sri Lanka, to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Pakistan\u2019s excellent bowling, the Sri Lankan team was bowled out for 128 runs in 19.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Janith Liyanage scored 40 runs, while Hasaranga and Asalanka scored 18 runs each.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Mirza and Abrar Ahmed took 3 wickets each, while Shadab Khan and Mohammad Wasim took 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan easily achieved Sri Lanka&#8217;s target of 129 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Sahibzada Farhan was outstanding for Pakistan with 51 runs off 36 balls. Saim Ayub scored 24 runs.<\/p>\n<p>, Salman Ali Agha was dismissed for 16, and Fakhar Zaman for 5 runs. Shadab Khan remained unbeaten on 18, and Usman Khan scored 7 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMBULLA: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the first match of the 3-match T20 series to take a 0-1 lead in the series. Pakistan achieved Sri Lanka\u2019s target of 129 runs in the 17th over for the loss of 4 wickets. Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha won the toss and invited the hosts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":90518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32286],"class_list":["post-96708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pak-vs-sl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96709,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708\/revisions\/96709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}