Kumar Sangakkara scored the highest number of runs while Saeed Ajmal claimed the highest number of wickets in the three Test matches series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates which the former won 1-0.
The Sri Lankan batsman scored 516 runs at an average of 86.00 and a strike rate of 47.20 with two centuries and same number of fifties in six innings. Taufeeq Umar took the number one position for Pakistan. The left-hand opening batsman scored 324 runs at 54.00 and a strike rate of 43.08 with one hundred in six innings.
Saeed Ajmal took the first spot among the bowlers. The Pakistani off-break bowler claimed 18 wickets at an average of 28.77 and an economy rate of 2.54.
Chanaka Welegedara was the most successful bowler for the Islanders. He claimed 11 wickets at 25.00 with economy rate of 2.49.
As many as six centuries were scored, three each from both sides. Kumar Sangakkara scored two including a double while Taufeeq Umar, Azhar Ali, Younus Khan and Prasanna Jayawardene made one hundred each.
Three bowlers, two from Pakistan and one from Sri Lankan, claimed a five-wicket haul.
Pakistan’s 1-0 victory was Pakistan’s seventh series victory over Sri Lanka in Tests and first on neutral venue.
