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| Venue | Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi on 18th May 2007 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Pakistan won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | MR Benson (England), SL Shastri (India) |
| TV umpire | RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe) |
| Referee | J Srinath (India) |
| Reserve Umpire | Farid Malik |
| Player of the Match | Shahid Afridi |
| Articles | Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 5 wickets in 1st ODI |
| Picture galleries | 1st ODI, Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 18 May 2007 - pictures |
| Pictures | Shahid Afridi plays a shot |
| Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal celebrate their victory over Sri Lanka | |
| Shahid Afridi tries to avoid spectators after win the match | |
| Kamran Akmal plays a sweep shot | |
| List of all pictures |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WU Tharanga | run out (Salman Butt->Kamran Akmal) | 17 | 33 | 1 | - | 51.52 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | lbw b Mohammad Asif | 1 | 7 | - | - | 14.29 | |
| CK Kapugedera | b Umar Gul | 28 | 41 | 4 | - | 68.29 | |
| *DPMD Jayawardene | c Kamran Akmal b Umar Gul | 18 | 26 | 3 | - | 69.23 | |
| LPC Silva | run out (Abdul Razzaq) | 47 | 67 | 6 | - | 70.15 | |
| TM Dilshan | c Umar Gul b Abdul Razzaq | 14 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 63.64 | |
| +HAPW Jayawardene | run out (Imran Nazir) | 20 | 30 | 3 | - | 66.67 | |
| MF Maharoof | not out | 69 | 54 | 9 | 1 | 127.78 | |
| HMCM Bandara | b Umar Gul | 6 | 16 | - | - | 37.50 | |
| SL Malinga | b Mohammad Sami | 3 | 7 | - | - | 42.86 | |
| MKDI Amerasinghe | not out | 1 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 4 nb, 3 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 235 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Jayasuriya, 2.3 ov), 2-34 (Tharanga, 10.1 ov), 3-61 (Kapugedera, 15.6 ov), 4-72 (DPMD Jayawardene, 19.1 ov), 5-103 (Dilshan, 25.4 ov), 6-141 (HAPW Jayawardene, 33.6 ov), 7-177 (Silva, 41.3 ov), 8-203 (Bandara, 45.6 ov), 9-215 (Malinga, 48.2 ov) | |||||||
| Pakistan bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mohammad Asif | 10 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 2.60 |
| Mohammad Sami | 10 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.90 |
| Umar Gul | 10 | 0 | 61 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20.00 | 6.10 |
| Abdul Razzaq | 10 | 0 | 52 | 1 | - | 3 | 60.00 | 5.20 |
| Shahid Afridi | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.30 |
| Pakistan innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Salman Butt | run out (Kapugedera->Bandara) | 34 | 67 | 3 | - | 50.75 | |
| Imran Nazir | run out (Jayasuriya->Malinga) | 38 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 158.33 | |
| Yasir Hameed | lbw b Bandara | 10 | 29 | 1 | - | 34.48 | |
| Mohammad Yousuf | b Maharoof | 12 | 25 | 1 | - | 48.00 | |
| *Shoaib Malik | run out (Tharanga->HAPW Jayawardene) | 11 | 27 | - | - | 40.74 | |
| +Kamran Akmal | not out | 51 | 51 | 8 | - | 100.00 | |
| Shahid Afridi | not out | 73 | 34 | 8 | 4 | 214.71 | |
| Abdul Razzaq | did not bat | ||||||
| Mohammad Sami | did not bat | ||||||
| Mohammad Asif | did not bat | ||||||
| Umar Gul | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 5 nb, 4 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 42 overs) | 239 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53 (Imran Nazir, 9.1 ov), 2-84 (Yasir Hameed, 18.5 ov), 3-88 (Salman Butt, 20.4 ov), 4-105 (Mohammad Yousuf, 25.5 ov), 5-137 (Shoaib Malik, 31.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Maharoof | 8 | 1 | 47 | 1 | - | 4 | 48.00 | 5.88 |
| Malinga | 9 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 5.89 |
| Amerasinghe | 7 | 2 | 31 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.43 |
| Dilshan | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Bandara | 10 | 1 | 69 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 6.90 |
| Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.80 |