Misbah-ul-Haq is pulling the weight in shoulder after unconfirmed reports of changing room fighting between Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik, losing some fast-bowlers in the spot-fixing scandal and going without a head coach. But, and but... the captain has steered them into a 6 month unbeaten run (only losing 2 matches during this though) and has shown his capability of his team by a thumping 8 wicket win against Sri Lanka in the first ODI.
For Sri Lanka, this maybe the opposite. The captain, Tilkharatne Dilshan had his ups and downs but it has been marred by his team's dismal collapses in their batting in their ODI and Tests shown in their tour of England and UAE in the past 6 months. And Sri Lanka maybe hampered in their batting even more after Mahela Jayawardene is doubtful in the next ODI tomorrow with his knee injury being nursed throughout the tour.
2 teams suffering heavily with either on pitch or off-pitch disputes now need to brush aside these things and get to work.
Pakistan Squad: (probable) 1 Imran Farhat, 2 Mohammad Hafeez, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Umar Akmal, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt.), 6 Abdul Razzaq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Aizaz Cheema
Sri Lanka Squad (probable): 1 Upul Tharanga, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan (capt), 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Dinesh Chandimal, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Kosala Kulasekara 8 Thisara Perera 9 Jeevan Mendis 10 Lasith Malinga 11 Suranga Lakmal
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