Jehan mubarak, American-Sri Lankan cricketer

It was on this day, 12 years ago, that Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka to win its first T20 World Cup title.In the finals played at the Lord's Cricket Ground, Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat first. Sri Lanka got off to a bad start as it lost its first four wickets with just 32 runs on the board.Tillakaratne Dilshan (0), Jehan Mubarak (0), Sanath Jayasuriya (17), and Mahela Jayawardena (1) all failed to leave a mark with the bat.Kumar Sangakkara then steadied the ship and played an unbeaten knock of 64 runs to take the side's total to 138/6 in the allotted twenty overs.Chasing 139, Pakistan openers Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan provided a steady start with a stand of 48 runs.Sri Lanka was not able to recover and in the end, Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik guided Pakistan to their first T20 World Cup title win.Pakistan won the match by eight wickets and with eight balls to spare. Afridi and Malik remained unbeaten on 54 and 24 respectively.Pakistan had made it to the finals of the inaugural edition of the World Cup as well but fell short against India.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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Cricket :On this day in 2009: Pakistan won T20 World Cup

It was on this day, 12 years ago, that Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka to win its first T20 World Cup title. ...