2009 World Twenty20 final

Prior to this match Sri Lanka and Pakistan played 4 times against each other in Twenty20s, where both teams won 2 times each.{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-pakistan-2012/engine/records/team/match_results.html?class=3;id=7;id=8;type=headtohead|title= Pakistan v Sri Lanka / Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Match results

|publisher=ESPNCricinfo}} Their most recent meeting was in that same event where Sri Lanka won by 19 runs.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8096132.stm|title=Sri Lanka too strong for Pakistan|publisher=BBC|date=12 June 2009}} Including that they also met another time in the World Twenty20, which was in the previous event at 2007. Pakistan won by 8 wickets in that match.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/6997721.stm|title=Pakistan clinch comfortable win|publisher=BBC|date=17 September 2007}}

{{main|2009 ICC World Twenty20}}

Sri Lanka had a very smooth tournament excluding the final match. They were the only unbeaten team at that stage. They won against West Indies in the group stage and eliminated Australia in the group stage by beating them by six wickets.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8087713.stm|title=Australia exit ICC World Twenty20 |publisher=BBC|date=8 June 2009}} They were the group champions of Group C. In Super8s they were potted in the Group F. They won against Pakistan, Ireland and New Zealand to become the group topper of this group. Dilshan's unbeaten 96 helped Sri Lanka to beat the West Indies team by 57 runs and qualify for their first ICC World Twenty20 Final.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8107903.stm|title=Sri Lanka thrash Windies in semis |publisher=BBC|date=19 June 2009}}

Despite entering the tournament with a number of the players who had finished second to India during the inaugural World T20, including all-rounders Shahid Afridi and captain Shoaib Malik, fast bowler Umar Gul and batsman Misbah-ul-Haq – supported by teenage but promising left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir – Pakistan's road to the final wasn't smooth like the Lankans. They were in the clinch of elimination at group stage, but a massive 82 runs win against the Netherlands washed out all the tensions for them.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8089706.stm|title=Pakistan go through with easy win|publisher=BBC|date=9 June 2009}} Though the loss against host England made them stay behind of the hosts at Group B. Still the tournament system made them the B1 of group B. In the Super 8s, they lost to the Sri Lankan team by 19 runs at their first match. which led them to another tension situation. But another gigantic and dominating win against New Zealand helped them to release the pressure, punctuated by Gul becoming the first bowler to record a five-wicket haul in a T20 international.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8098274.stm|title=Gul heroics inspire Pakistan win|publisher=BBC|date=13 June 2009}} An easy win against Ireland – redemption for a number of the Pakistani players who had been in the ODI team that had lost to the Irish in Jamaica in the 2007 World Cup that not only knocked them out of the tournament but proved to be Bob Woolmer's final match coaching Pakistan before his death – helped Pakistan to board on the semi-final being the second of Group F next to Sri Lanka.

In the first semifinal at Trent Bridge in front of a crowd including many Pakistanis living in Britain, they faced South Africa, who had come into the tournament as favorites and had lived up to the billing to that point, entering the match unbeaten. Afridi rose to the challenge, earning Man of the Match first with the bat thanks to 51 off 34 as Pakistan reached 149/4 during their 20 overs and then with the ball as he took 2–16 in his four overs after bowling both Herschelle Gibbs and AB De Villiers playing on. Supported by clutch death bowling from Gul and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, Pakistan held on to secure an upset, winning by 7 runs.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8104338.stm|title=Afridi steers Pakistan into final |publisher=BBC|date=18 June 2009}}

Both teams were unchanged from their previous match at the semis.

• On-field umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
• TV umpire: Steve Davis (Aus)
• Reserve umpire: Billy Bowden (NZ)
• Match referee: Chris Broad (Eng)

Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and chose to bat first.

File:T20 final 2009.jpg bowling from the Nursery End in the Final at Lord's.]]

The first over was bowled by Mohammad Amir. After failing to score off the first four balls – all short – Dilshan went for his scoop and mistimed it, resulting in him being caught at short fine-leg. Soon after this, Jehan Mubarak top edged a delivery by Abdul Razzaq which went high in the air and was caught by Shahzaib Hasan, leaving Sri Lanka at 2 for 2.{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/20090621/pakistan-crowned-world-twenty20-champion-crushes-sri-lanka-eight-wickets.htm|title=Pakistan crowned new world Twenty20 champion, crushes Sri Lanka by 8 wickets|date=21 June 2009|work=International Business Times|accessdate=24 June 2009| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090624144009/http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/20090621/pakistan-crowned-world-twenty20-champion-crushes-sri-lanka-eight-wickets.htm| archivedate= 24 June 2009 | url-status= dead}} Sanath Jayasuriya was able to stabilise the innings for Sri Lanka hitting 17 runs off 10 balls, however, Jayasuriya soon fell as he dragged a good length ball back on to the stumps. Mahela Jayawardene followed after edging a shot into the hands of Misbah-ul-Haq, leaving Sri Lanka on 32/4.{{cite news |url=http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/icc-world-t20/news/detail/item284953/FINAL:-PAK-vs-SL:-Blow-by-Blow/ |title=FINAL: PAK vs SL: Blow by Blow |date=21 June 2009 |publisher=ESPN Star |accessdate=24 June 2009 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20090625042358/http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/icc-world-t20/news/detail/item284953/FINAL:-PAK-vs-SL:-Blow-by-Blow/ |archivedate=25 June 2009 |url-status=usurped }} Sangakkara and Chamara Silva added further runs, before the latter was caught by Saeed Ajmal playing a pull shot off the bowling of Umar Gul.{{cite news|url=http://www.teletext.co.uk/cricket/news/d3e4c61b68f9198278206cd76b388a0f/Pakistan+v+Sri+Lanka.aspx|title=Pakistan v Sri Lanka|date=21 June 2009|publisher=Teletext|accessdate=24 June 2009}} Shahid Afridi soon after, took the wicket of Isuru Udana with a googly which drifted into the right-hander, knocking the off-stump. This brought in Angelo Mathews, who along with Sangakkara took the score from 70/6 to 138/6, with 17 runs being scored off the last over bowled by Mohammad Amir. Sri Lanka finished on 138/6 from 20 overs.{{cite news|url=http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/good-moments/detail/item284996/|title=ICC World T20 Final: Sri Lanka vs Pakistan|date=21 June 2009|publisher=ESPN Star|accessdate=24 June 2009|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20090625015508/http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/good-moments/detail/item284996/|archivedate=25 June 2009|url-status=usurped}}

Pakistan started off well with openers Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan adding 48 run for the 1st wicket, before Kamran Akmal was stumped by Kumar Sangakkara by the first delivery of Sanath Jayasuriya. Pakistan reached the target in 18.4 overs, with Shahid Afridi, who hit the winning runs, earning Man of the Match{{cite news|url=http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/top-performer/detail/item285000/|title=Shahid Afridi|date=21 June 2009|publisher=ESPN Star|accessdate=24 June 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629050610/http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/top-performer/detail/item285000/|archivedate=29 June 2009|url-status=usurped}} while Tillakaratne Dilshan was declared Man of the Series for his 317 runs at an average of 63.40. Pakistan's win, often cheered on by crowds of fans from England's Pakistani communities, marked its first world title since their "cornered tigers", captained by future Prime Minister Imran Khan, had won the 1992 World Cup.

{{Limited overs matches

| date = 21 June

| time = 15:00

| team1 = {{cr-rt|SRI}}

| score1 = 138/6 (20 overs)

| score2 = 139/2 (18.4 overs)

| team2 = {{cr|PAK}}

| runs1 = Kumar Sangakkara 64* (52)

| wickets1 = Abdul Razzaq 3/20 (3 overs)

| runs2 = Shahid Afridi 54* (40)

| wickets2 = Sanath Jayasuriya 1/8 (2 overs)

| result = Pakistan won by 8 wickets

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/wt202009/engine/match/356017.html Scorecard]

| venue = Lord's, London

| umpires = Daryl Harper (Aus) and Simon Taufel (Aus)

| motm = Shahid Afridi (Pak)

| toss = Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

}}

Source:{{cite web |access-date=21 June 2009 |title=2009 ICC World Twenty20 final |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wt202009/engine/match/356017.html |website=ESPN Cricinfo}}

;1st innings

{{Cricket match batting box begin|title={{cr|SRI}} batting}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Tillakaratne Dilshan |status=c Hasan b Amir|runs=0|balls=5|4s=0|6s=0|strike_rate=0.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Sanath Jayasuriya |status=b Razzaq|runs=17|balls=10|4s=2|6s=1|strike_rate=170.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Jehan Mubarak |status=c Hasan b Razzaq|runs=0|balls=2|4s=0|6s=0|strike_rate=0.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Kumar Sangakkara *† |status=not out|runs=64|balls=52|4s=7|6s=0|strike_rate=123.07}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Mahela Jayawardene |status=c Misbah b Razzaq|runs=1|balls=4|4s=0|6s=0|strike_rate=25.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Chamara Silva |status=c Ajmal b Gul|runs=14|balls=19|4s=2|6s=0|strike_rate=73.68}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Isuru Udana |status=b Afridi|runs=1|balls=5|4s=0|6s=0|strike_rate=20.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Angelo Mathews |status=not out|runs=35|balls=24|4s=3|6s=1|strike_rate=145.83}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Lasith Malinga |status=did not bat|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Muttiah Muralitharan |status=did not bat|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Ajantha Mendis |status=did not bat|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Extras|status=(lb 3, nb 1, w 2)|runs=6|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Total|status=(6 wickets; 20 overs)|runs=138 |balls=|4s=14|6s=2|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match box end}}

Fall of wickets: 1/0 (Dilshan, 0.5 ov), 2/2 (Mubarak, 1.3 ov), 3/26 (Jayasuriya, 3.5 ov), 4/32 (Jayawardene, 5.3 ov), 5/67 (Silva, 11.3 ov), 6/70 (Udana, 12.6 ov)

{{Cricket match bowling box begin|title={{cr|PAK}} bowling}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Mohammad Amir|overs=4|maiden=1|runs=30|wickets=1|econ=7.50|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Abdul Razzaq|overs=3|maiden=0|runs=20|wickets=3|econ=6.66|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Shahid Afridi|overs=4|maiden=0|runs=20|wickets=1|econ=5.00|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Saeed Ajmal|overs=4|maiden=0|runs=28|wickets=0|econ=7.00|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Shoaib Malik|overs=1|maiden=0|runs=8|wickets=0|econ=8.00|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Umar Gul|overs=4|maiden=0|runs=29|wickets=1|econ=7.25|wides=2|no-balls=1}}

{{Cricket match box end}}

;2nd innings

{{Cricket match batting box begin|title={{cr|PAK}} batting}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Kamran Akmal † |status=st †Sangakkara b Jayasuriya|runs=37|balls=28|4s=2|6s=2|strike_rate=132.14}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Shahzaib Hasan |status=c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan|runs=19|balls=23|4s=3|6s=0|strike_rate=82.60}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Shahid Afridi |status=not out|runs=54|balls=40|4s=2|6s=2|strike_rate=135.00}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Shoaib Malik |status=not out|runs=24|balls=22|4s=1|6s=0|strike_rate=109.09}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Abdul Razzaq |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Younis Khan * |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Misbah-ul-Haq |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Fawad Alam |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Umar Gul |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Saeed Ajmal |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Mohammad Amir |status=|runs=|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Extras|status=(lb 2, nb 1, w 2)|runs=5|balls=|4s=|6s=|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match batsman status|player=Total|status=(2 wickets; 18.4 overs)|runs=139 |balls=|4s=8|6s=4|strike_rate=}}

{{Cricket match box end}}

Fall of wickets: 1/48 (Akmal, 7.1 ov), 2/63 (Hasan, 9.1 ov)

{{Cricket match bowling box begin|title={{cr|SRI}} bowling}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Angelo Mathews|overs=2|maiden=0|runs=17|wickets=0|econ=8.50|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Isuru Udana|overs=4|maiden=0|runs=44|wickets=0|econ=11.00|wides=2|no-balls=1}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Lasith Malinga|overs=3.4|maiden=0|runs=14|wickets=0|econ=3.81|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Muttiah Muralitharan|overs=3|maiden=0|runs=20|wickets=1|econ=6.66|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Ajantha Mendis|overs=4|maiden=0|runs=34|wickets=0|econ=8.50|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match bowler status|bowler=Sanath Jayasuriya|overs=2|maiden=0|runs=8|wickets=1|econ=4.00|wides=0|no-balls=0}}

{{Cricket match box end}}

Key

• * – Captain
• {{dagger}} – Wicket-keeper
• c Fielder – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named fielder
• b Bowler – Indicates which bowler gains credit for the dismissal

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.espncricinfo.com/wt202009/content/series/335113.html ICC World Twenty20 2009]

{{ICC World Twenty20}}

{{International cricket in 2009}}

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