Pakistan v Sri Lanka 2017: 2nd T20I – Statistical Highlights

Pakistan sealed the T20I series with a thrilling 2-wicket win the 2nd game of the 3-match series chasing down the low target with just one ball to spare. Sri Lanka collapsed from 106/1 to 124/9 as Faheem Ashraf picked up a hat-trick. Pakistan struggled in the chase and needed eight runs off the last three balls where Shadab Khan struck a six to ease down the equation.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the game.

1 – Faheem became the first Pakistan bowler to take a hat-trick in T20I cricket. He is also the first to take a hat-trick in International cricket in 15 years as the last one was Mohammad Sami in March 2002. Overall, seven players picked up 12 hat-tricks in International cricket before Faheem.

1 – His hat-trick is the 1st in International cricket in the United Arab Emirates. Overall, this is the 3rd hat-trick in Twenty20s in UAE after GK Berg of Italy recorded in 2013/14 and SP Gauchan of Nepal in 2011/12.

5 – Number of consecutive bilateral series victories in T20I cricket for Pakistan. They are the first team to win five bilateral T20I series in a row. Pakistan defeated England (1-0), Windies (3-0 and 3-10), World XI (2-1) and now Sri Lanka in their last five T20I series.

5 – Number of batsmen who were run out in this game; three Sri Lankans and two from Pakistan. The last instance of five players getting run out in a T20I was during the Pakistan v World XI T20I at Lahore which is the only other such instance in the last seven years.

6 – Faheem Ashraf is now only the 6th player to take a hat-trick in T20I cricket. The last one was by Lasith Malinga earlier this year against Bangladesh at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

6 – The hat-trick by Faheem is the 6th in International cricket in 2017. Three hat-tricks in ODIs, two in T20Is and one in Test cricket. These are the most number of hat-tricks in a year going past five in 1999 and 2003.

19y 23d – At the age of 19 years and 23 days, Shadab Khan became the youngest to score the winning runs in a T20I game. Nepal’s Sompal Kami scored winning runs in 2015 against Netherlands at the age of 19 years and 151 days.

33 – Number of losses in International cricket for Sri Lanka in 2017. These are the most number of losses in International cricket for any team in a calendar year. Zimbabwe lost 32 International games in 2015.

46 – Danushka Gunathilaka’s 46-ball fifty is the 3rd slowest fifty for Sri Lanka in T20I cricket. Angelo Mathews scored a 50-ball fifty in 2017 while Kumar Sangakkara needed 47 balls in 2013 for his fifty against South Africa.