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Pakistan spinners baffled Sri Lanka batters arsenic the hosts won the T20 tri-series rubric lucifer by six wickets connected Saturday (November 29, 2025).
Sri Lanka mislaid its past 8 wickets for conscionable 16 runs earlier it got bowled retired for 114 successful 19.1 overs aft Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha won the flip and elected to bat.
Pakistan cruised to 118-4 with 8 balls to spare successful a lop-sided last with opening batters Saim Ayub (36) and Sahibzada Farhan (23) providing a coagulated commencement earlier Babar Azam scored an unbeaten 37 disconnected 34 balls.
Sri Lanka came into the last with back-to-back wins implicit Zimbabwe and Pakistan but crumbled against spinners Mohammad Nawaz (3-17), Abrar Ahmed (2-18) and Ayub (1-17).
The visitors looked acceptable to station a competitory full by reaching 81-1 astatine the halfway signifier but deed conscionable 1 six successful the 12 overs disconnected the dilatory bowlers.
Left-handed opener Kamil Mishara staked his assertion for adjacent year's T20 World Cup with 59 disconnected 47 balls arsenic helium shared 64-run basal with Kusal Mendis (14) to springiness Sri Lanka a cleanable platform.
But the descent began erstwhile Babar plucked a terrific drawback implicit his caput connected the borderline of long-off bound successful Nawaz's archetypal implicit to disregard Mendis successful the 11th over.
Mishara, who raised his half-century disconnected 37 balls, tried to propulsion the scoring complaint earlier Babar hung onto different superb diving drawback portion moving from long-off bound arsenic Sri Lanka slipped to 98-3 successful the 14th over.
Ahmed past claimed 2 wickets successful 1 implicit with Babar capping his cleanable time successful the outfield by grabbing Pavan Rathnayake's (8) drawback and Kusal Perera's below-par white-ball circuit to Pakistan continued erstwhile helium skied a drawback to wicketkeeper Usman Khan aft scoring 1 disconnected 6 balls.
Nawaz finished the tri-series arsenic the apical wicket taker with 10 wickets erstwhile helium dismissed Janith Liyanage and Wanindu Hasaranga cheaply earlier Shaheen Shah Afridi (3-18) mopped up the process successful his instrumentality spell to bounds Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka struggled to get an aboriginal breakthrough arsenic Farhan and Ayub shared 46-run opening stand. Ayub was assertive against Maheesh Theekshana successful the powerfulness play and deed the spinner for 3 boundaries successful 1 implicit and Farhan smacked Hasaranga for a six and a 4 of the archetypal 2 balls the leg-spinner bowled aft the powerfulness play.
Eshan Malinga (1-16) had Farhan cleanable bowled disconnected a transportation that seamed into the right-hander and Ayub got trapped lbw of Hasaranga's (1-31) transportation that kept debased and struck the left-hander connected the backfoot.
Although Rathnayake (2-11) claimed the wickets of Agha and Fakhar Zaman successful successive overs, Babar stayed calm earlier guiding Dushmantha Chameera to 3rd for a winning bound with plentifulness of balls to spare.
