Asia Cup contest between Pakistan and Sri Lanka today holds promise for a keenly contested match. Both sides play an exciting brand of cricket, have batsmen with flair and solidity, and bowlers capable of winning matches on their own.
Pakistan have come up on top in the last three matches played against Sri Lanka - in fact they have won seven of nine matches going back to August 2009 - and that will give them confidence of pulling one more over the opposition. But Pakistan under-performed with the bat in the tournament opener, rallied with the ball and won the match by 21 runs. Their batting was problematic. After a 135-run opening stand, the next five batsmen contributed 45 runs and Pakistan needed Umar Gul's 39 from 25 balls to get them past 250 when once they looked on course for 300. Against a stronger bowling attack they cannot expect to get away with such sloppy batting.
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