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This is a guest post from Kamrul Hasan who is the blogger of Cricket Updates. Cricket Updates is a nice blog and it has around 1270 Feedburner subscribers. So, it is some popular too. Here is his post:

Pakistan all rounder Shahid Afridi has given a victory to his team in his debut T20 match as skipper. He led Twenty20 World Champion team Pakistan in this only T20 match against host Sri Lanka and ended the tour series with a victory. Sri Lanka has been beaten by 52 runs at the hand of Pakistan. The whole R Premadasa stadium was full of supporters.

It was the first T20 match between two teams since the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 in England. However, it T20 match was more exciting because cricket fans saw the two finalist teams of T20 World Cup. As a skipper, Shahid Afridi showed his best performance. He shone both the bat and ball. With the bat he scored 50 from 37 balls and took 1 wicket for 21 in four overs. However, his one run out put Sri Lanka in a huge pressure. We can say that luck was in favor of Pakistan team and captain Shahid Afridi.

Rana Naved and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal both got three wickets each. Though Sri Lanka made good start in an opening stand but they could not continue it. They lost their wickets in a regular basis. Sri Lanka got all out for 120 runs with 11 balls remaining at hand. We can see that only Kumar Kumar Sangakkara tried to make a strong protest with the bat but failed. He scored 38 off 31 balls.

Shahid Afridi was awarded player of the match. He was the player of the match in both semi-final and final at T20 World Cup.

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