12th Match, Group B: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Cardiff

92 - 2

15.4
Pradeep to ShAzam, back of a length, he has time to whip it but picks out midwicket!

Babar Azam c de Silva b Pradeep 10

99 - 3 after 17

16.5
Perera to  Hafeez, we have a game on, folks! Another very, very soft dismissal.

Mohammad Hafeez c Pradeep b Perera 1.

Pakistan require another 131 runs

with 32.0 overs and 7 wickets to go !

110 - 4

19.2
Lakmal to Azhar this is why Mathews is a captain! Bowling change work straight away

Azhar Ali c Mendis b Lakmal 34

131 - 5 at the half way mark

Mal-ik exits to Mal-inga

106 runs required ! Jamaica Tallawah to the middle I mad 

137 - 6

Imad exits...

pak exits

44.5 Malinga to Sarfraz Ahmed, FOUR, he's done it! Sarfraz Ahmed has huffed and

puffed and pushed and fought - and he hasn't done it perfectly

- but he has dragged his team into the semi-final. .

Amir lost a lotta years of lovely cricket :

The wow moment :

It is well known that Amir can make the ball trace horse-shoe shapes given any help from conditions. But the pitches in this tournament have given the bowlers nothing. So when Sri Lanka were 161 for 3 after 31 overs with one of their gun players Angelo Mathews at the crease and finding his range, Pakistan were at the point of no return.

So they turned to their spearhead for some magic.

Amir ran in, his cockles up and his pace searing. Mathews took strike, the short boundaries calling to him like sirens. But all that transpired was an inside edge onto the stumps. That left Sri Lanka at 161 for 4, they would soon become 167 for 7, then they would lose.  :-[