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Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. 8 March was taken as a rest day. This was first ever Test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Rashid Khan, Saleem Malik, Saleem Yousuf and Tahir Naqqash (all PAK), and JR Ratnayeke (SL) made their Test debuts.
The Test series will form part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. [3] The ODI series will serve as part of Australia's preparation for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy in February 2025. [4] In November 2024, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour. [5] [6] Australia last toured Sri Lanka in 2022. [7]
Following the first Test, Sri Lanka's captain Dimuth Karunaratne expressed his regret in not playing in the limited-overs matches, and said that "Pakistan is now safe for cricket". [19] Pakistan won the second Test match by 263 runs, to give them a 1–0 series win, and their first Test victory in Pakistan in ten years. [20]
The venues of the round robin matches were rotated between the three countries: India , Sri Lanka and Pakistan , while the final was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a neutral venue. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 175 in the final to become the first Asian Test Champions and received US$250,000 in prize money.
The Pakistan v Bangladesh and the concurrent Sri Lanka v India (3rd Test at Colombo) Test matches provided the unique feat of centuries on test debuts on successive days in two separate Test matches. Additionally, the Test match was the hottest ever, with temperatures in excess of 38 degrees Celsius (100 degree Fahrenheit) on each day.
Pakistan first competed in international cricket in 1952, when they played against India in a four-day Test match; India won the match by an innings and 70 runs at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi. [2] [3] In the same series, Pakistan recorded their first Test win, the second match by an innings and 43 runs at the University Ground, Lucknow.
Junaid Khan took his 50th Test wicket when he got Dinesh Chandimal out in the second innings of the 1st Test. Misbah-ul-Haq passed 3,000 Test runs in the second innings of the 2nd Test. Ahmed Shehzad made his 1st Test century in the first innings of the 3rd Test. Azhar Ali made his 5th Test century in the second innings of the 3rd Test. Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan cricket team was touring Pakistan in January and February 2009. The series was the first Test tour of Pakistan since South Africa visited in October 2007. [1] The tour was arranged as a replacement for the scheduled tour of India which was cancelled by BCCI following 2008 Mumbai attacks. [2] The tour included 3 ODIs and 2 Tests.