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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 27th October 2001 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Pakistan 0; Sri Lanka 5 (Bonus 1) |
| Umpires | RE Koertzen, EA Nicholls |
| TV umpire | G Sharp |
| Referee | DT Lindsay |
| Player of the Match | DA Gunawardene |
| Pakistan innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Taufeeq Umar | b Fernando | 10 | 20 | 23 | 2 | - | 50.00 |
| Shahid Afridi | c Nissanka b Fernando | 23 | 24 | 44 | 4 | - | 95.83 |
| Saeed Anwar | c and b Fernando | 2 | 5 | 9 | - | - | 40.00 |
| Yousuf Youhana | c Vaas b Jayasuriya | 47 | 72 | 91 | 2 | 1 | 65.28 |
| Younis Khan | c Muralitharan b Nissanka | 12 | 15 | 21 | 2 | - | 80.00 |
| +Rashid Latif | c Muralitharan b Nissanka | 1 | 9 | 17 | - | - | 11.11 |
| Abdur Razzaq | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 27 | 52 | 56 | - | 1 | 51.92 |
| Wasim Akram | c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 | - | 58.33 |
| Shoaib Malik | not out | 17 | 34 | 40 | - | - | 50.00 |
| *Waqar Younis | b Jayasuriya | 18 | 32 | 34 | 1 | - | 56.25 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | run out (Muralitharan->Kaluwitharana) | 1 | 3 | 10 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (5 b, 6 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 178 minutes, 46.2 overs) | 176 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Taufeeq Umar, 5.1 ov), 2-36 (Saeed Anwar, 7.1 ov), 3-41 (Shahid Afridi, 9.1 ov), 4-61 (Younis Khan, 13.4 ov), 5-67 (Rashid Latif, 17.4 ov), 6-117 (Yousuf Youhana, 30.1 ov), 7-128 (Wasim Akram, 32.6 ov), 8-141 (Abdur Razzaq, 36.5 ov), 9-170 (Waqar Younis, 45.4 ov), 10-176 (Shoaib Akhtar, 46.2 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 7.2 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.27 |
| Fernando | 7 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 1 | - | 14.00 | 6.14 |
| Nissanka | 8 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 3.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 1 | - | 16.00 | 3.75 |
| Arnold | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Shahid Afridi b Shoaib Akhtar | 19 | 36 | 60 | 2 | - | 52.78 |
| DA Gunawardene | c Shoaib Malik b Shoaib Akhtar | 88 | 123 | 166 | 13 | - | 71.54 |
| MS Atapattu | c Taufeeq Umar b Abdur Razzaq | 21 | 38 | 67 | 2 | - | 55.26 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 29 | 28 | 45 | 5 | - | 103.57 |
| RP Arnold | not out | 10 | 7 | 8 | 2 | - | 142.86 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| RAP Nissanka | did not bat | ||||||
| CRD Fernando | did not bat | ||||||
| KC Sangakkara | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 3 nb, 3 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 174 minutes, 38.1 overs) | 177 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Jayasuriya, 13.2 ov), 2-121 (Atapattu, 27.6 ov), 3-161 (Gunawardene, 36.2 ov) | |||||||
| Pakistan bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wasim Akram | 6 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1.17 |
| Waqar Younis | 6 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | 7.1 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21.50 | 5.44 |
| Abdur Razzaq | 8 | 0 | 52 | 1 | - | 1 | 48.00 | 6.50 |
| Shoaib Malik | 8 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.88 |
| Shahid Afridi | 3 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.33 |