 Lasith Malinga bowling to Shahid Afridi during the Final at the Lord's | |||||||||
| Event | 2009 ICC World Twenty20 | ||||||||
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| Pakistan won by 8 wickets | |||||||||
| Date | 21 June 2009 | ||||||||
| Venue | Lord's,London | ||||||||
| Player of the match | Shahid Afridi (Pak) | ||||||||
| Umpires | Daryl Harper (Aus) andSimon Taufel (Aus) | ||||||||
| Attendance | 28,000 | ||||||||
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The2009 ICC World Twenty20 Final was played betweenSri Lanka andPakistan at theLord's inLondon on 21 June 2009. This was the 2ndICC World Twenty20. Pakistan won the match by eight wickets,[1][2] its first World Twenty20 victory, after being the runners-up at the very previous tournament in2007[3][4] Pakistan became the 2nd team to win this title afterIndia.[3] This was the second consecutive time where both the finalists were Asian teams.[3] In the stadium, the match was watched by 28,000 spectators and almost 32 million people watched it on TV.[5]
Prior to this match Sri Lanka and Pakistan played 4 times against each other inTwenty20s, where both teams won 2 times each.[6] Their most recent meeting was in that same event where Sri Lanka won by 19 runs.[7] Including that they also met another time in the World Twenty20, which was in the previous event at2007. Pakistan won by 8 wickets in that match.[8]
Sri Lanka had a very smooth tournament excluding the final match. They were the only unbeaten team at that stage. They won against West Indies in the group stage and eliminated Australia in the group stage by beating them by six wickets.[9] They were the group champions ofGroup C. In Super8s they were potted in theGroup F. They won against Pakistan, Ireland and New Zealand to become the group topper of this group.Dilshan's unbeaten 96 helped Sri Lanka to beat the West Indies team by 57 runs and qualify for their first ICC World Twenty20 Final.[3][10]
Despite entering the tournament with a number of the players who had finished second to India during the inaugural World T20, including all-roundersShahid Afridi and captainShoaib Malik, fast bowlerUmar Gul and batsmanMisbah-ul-Haq – supported by teenage but promising left-arm pacerMohammad Amir – Pakistan's road to the final wasn't smooth like the Lankans. They were in the clinch of elimination at group stage, but a massive 82 runs win against the Netherlands washed out all the tensions for them.[11] Though the loss against host England made them stay behind of the hosts atGroup B. Still the tournament system made them the B1 of group B. In the Super 8s, they lost to the Sri Lankan team by 19 runs at their first match.[7] which led them to another tension situation. But another gigantic and dominating win against New Zealand helped them to release the pressure, punctuated by Gul becoming the first bowler to record a five-wicket haul in a T20 international.[12] An easy win against Ireland – redemption for a number of the Pakistani players who had been in the ODI team that had lost to the Irish in Jamaica in the 2007 World Cup that not only knocked them out of the tournament but proved to beBob Woolmer's final match coaching Pakistan before his death – helped Pakistan to board on the semi-final being the second ofGroup F next to Sri Lanka.
In the first semifinal atTrent Bridge in front of a crowd including many Pakistanis living in Britain, they faced South Africa, who had come into the tournament as favorites and had lived up to the billing to that point, entering the match unbeaten. Afridi rose to the challenge, earning Man of the Match first with the bat thanks to 51 off 34 as Pakistan reached 149/4 during their 20 overs and then with the ball as he took 2–16 in his four overs after bowling bothHerschelle Gibbs andAB De Villiers playing on. Supported by clutch death bowling from Gul and off-spinnerSaeed Ajmal, Pakistan held on to secure an upset, winning by 7 runs.[13]
Both teams were unchanged from their previous match at the semis.[1]
Sri Lankan captainKumar Sangakkara won the toss and chose to bat first.
The first over was bowled byMohammad Amir. After failing to score off the first four balls – all short – Dilshan went for his scoop and mistimed it, resulting in him being caught at short fine-leg. Soon after this,Jehan Mubarak top edged a delivery byAbdul Razzaq which went high in the air and was caught byShahzaib Hasan, leaving Sri Lanka at 2 for 2.[14]Sanath Jayasuriya was able to stabilise the innings for Sri Lanka hitting 17 runs off 10 balls, however, Jayasuriya soon fell as he dragged a good length ball back on to the stumps.Mahela Jayawardene followed after edging a shot into the hands ofMisbah-ul-Haq, leaving Sri Lanka on 32/4.[15] Sangakkara and Chamara Silva added further runs, before the latter was caught bySaeed Ajmal playing a pull shot off the bowling ofUmar Gul.[16]Shahid Afridi soon after, took the wicket ofIsuru Udana with a googly which drifted into the right-hander, knocking the off-stump. This brought inAngelo Mathews, who along with Sangakkara took the score from 70/6 to 138/6, with 17 runs being scored off the last over bowled byMohammad Amir. Sri Lanka finished on 138/6 from 20 overs.[17]
Pakistan started off well with openersKamran Akmal andShahzaib Hasan adding 48 run for the 1st wicket, beforeKamran Akmal was stumped byKumar Sangakkara by the first delivery ofSanath Jayasuriya.[14] Pakistan reached the target in 18.4 overs, withShahid Afridi, who hit the winning runs, earningMan of the Match[18] whileTillakaratne Dilshan was declaredMan of the Series for his 317 runs at an average of 63.40. Pakistan's win, often cheered on by crowds of fans from England's Pakistani communities, marked its first world title since their "cornered tigers", captained by future Prime MinisterImran Khan, had won the 1992 World Cup.
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Pakistan won by 8 wickets Lord's,London Umpires:Daryl Harper (Aus) andSimon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match:Shahid Afridi (Pak) |
Source:[19]
 Sri Lanka batting | |||||||
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | c Hasan b Amir | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | b Razzaq | 17 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 170.00 | |
| Jehan Mubarak | c Hasan b Razzaq | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Kumar Sangakkara *† | not out | 64 | 52 | 7 | 0 | 123.07 | |
| Mahela Jayawardene | c Misbah b Razzaq | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Chamara Silva | c Ajmal b Gul | 14 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 73.68 | |
| Isuru Udana | b Afridi | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| Angelo Mathews | not out | 35 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 145.83 | |
| Lasith Malinga | did not bat | ||||||
| Muttiah Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Ajantha Mendis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (lb 3, nb 1, w 2) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 20 overs) | 138 | 14 | 2 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/0 (Dilshan, 0.5 ov), 2/2 (Mubarak, 1.3 ov), 3/26 (Jayasuriya, 3.5 ov), 4/32 (Jayawardene, 5.3 ov), 5/67 (Silva, 11.3 ov), 6/70 (Udana, 12.6 ov)
 Pakistan bowling | |||||||
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Mohammad Amir | 4 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 7.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Abdul Razzaq | 3 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 6.66 | 0 | 0 |
| Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 7.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Shoaib Malik | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Umar Gul | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 | 2 | 1 |
| Pakistan batting | |||||||
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Kamran Akmal † | st †Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 37 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 132.14 | |
| Shahzaib Hasan | c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan | 19 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 82.60 | |
| Shahid Afridi | not out | 54 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 135.00 | |
| Shoaib Malik | not out | 24 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 109.09 | |
| Abdul Razzaq | |||||||
| Younis Khan * | |||||||
| Misbah-ul-Haq | |||||||
| Fawad Alam | |||||||
| Umar Gul | |||||||
| Saeed Ajmal | |||||||
| Mohammad Amir | |||||||
| Extras | (lb 2, nb 1, w 2) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets; 18.4 overs) | 139 | 8 | 4 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/48 (Akmal, 7.1 ov), 2/63 (Hasan, 9.1 ov)
| Sri Lanka bowling | |||||||
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Angelo Mathews | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Isuru Udana | 4 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 11.00 | 2 | 1 |
| Lasith Malinga | 3.4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 3.81 | 0 | 0 |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 6.66 | 0 | 0 |
| Ajantha Mendis | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 8.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 |
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