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first Test, Galle, July 16 - 20, 2023, Pakistan visit through Sri Lanka

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Day 1 - Meeting 1: Sri Lanka decided to bat.


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Sri Lanka, Pakistan have an opportunity to test progress a year on in Galle

While Sri Lanka have played six of their last eight Tests in Galle, Pakistan's structure in the longest configuration will be their greatest concern


Danyal Rasool

Danyal Rasool

15-Jul-2023 • 22 hrs back


Prabath Jayasuriya got 17 wickets during Pakistan's visit through Sri Lanka last year  •  AFP/Getty Pictures

Prabath Jayasuriya got 17 wickets during Pakistan's visit through Sri Lanka last year • AFP/Getty Pictures


10,000 foot view: Sri Lanka start as top choices


On July 16, Sri Lanka played Pakistan in Galle in the first of two Test matches, with the subsequent Test beginning the 24th. That assertion is valid for both 2022 and 2023.


It's not satisfactory why this series has been set up to flawlessly reflect Pakistan's visit through Sri Lanka last year, yet it gives the chance to assess each side's advancement in the mediating a year. Sri Lanka start as clear top choices regardless of blended brings about the beyond a year principally in light of their degree of experience with conditions; six of the hosts' last eight Test matches have come at this scene, and four of those games have brought about wins for them. A somewhat settled Test side who perceive their best red-ball crew, Sri Lanka proceeded to challenge New Zealand away in the main other Test series they played, going somewhere near two wickets in the first prior to being overwhelmed in the second.


They fall off on point late structure - but in another arrangement. The shame of being compelled to fit the bill for the World Cup in India was more than compensated for by Sri Lanka vanquishing all before them in Zimbabwe, dominating each of the eight matches and the prize to book their place at the competition in style. They are reinforced by the probable return of Dimuth Karunaratne, who missed the last of that opposition with a hamstring injury. With two centuries and four fifties in his last seven Test innings, the accessibility of apparently the world's best opener of the beyond five years adds some invite haul against an initial assault containing Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah.