Chameera opens at the other end and he starts with a short ball in the corridor and Zaman lets it go as the ball holds its line.
Another dot later, short bouncer, Zaman looks to pull, he gets hit on the helmet and the ball flies up and is caught by the fielder. Big shout for caught, No says the umpire. Sri Lanka take the review and lose it.
Meanwhile, the physio does the mandatory concussion test on the batter. He looks fine as a new helmet comes out for him.
Zaman looks fine to resume even as he looks to have a big of a swelling on the forehead.
The next ball nips back and Zaman is beaten as he stays cemented to the crease.
Zaman then comes down the track and goes for the big swing, misses.
Zaman then comes down and swings his bat and hits the length ball over the square leg fielder for a four! 4 runs come off the eventful over.
Pakistan openers Fakhar Zaman and Sahibzada Farhan come out to chase 134 while Thushara opens the attack for Sri Lanka.
And Thushara starts with a fullish ball on the leg stump and Farhan chips it to the leg side for a single.
Thushara then bowls a fuller ball and that is a dot.
Zaman then clips the full and swinging ball to deep backward square leg to get off the mark with a couple.
Thushara then bowls a inswinging yorker and the batter digs it out for a dot.
Another inswinger and Zaman inside edges it to mid-on for a single.
A dot to end the over as 4 come off the opening over.
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