GALLE: Pakistan on Thursday won the Test match at Galle after beating Sri Lanka.
Opening batsman Inamul Haq stood unbeaten on 50 as Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by four wickets on the final day of the opening Test.
The tourists started the final day on 48-3 and lost three more wickets, including skipper Babar Azam for 24 off Prabath Jayasuriya, before they achieved the target in the first session.
Haq started the day on 25 and remained calm with Azam and then left-handed partner Saud Shakeel, who made a brisk 30 after his unbeaten 208 in Pakistan’s first innings.
Left-arm spinner Jayasuriya took four wickets including two on the evening of day four to give the hosts a glimmer of hope, but Haq stood firm.
Azam came out roaring as he hit a boundary off the first ball of the day and looked fluent in his 28-ball stay before being trapped lbw by Jayasuriya.
Shakeel took on the bowlers as well but off-spinner Ramesh Mendis got him caught behind.
Haq reached his eighth Test fifty before falling to Jayasuriya, but Agha Salman came out to hit the winning six.
Shakeel stood out for his maiden Test double century in Pakistan’s 461 all-out and a handy first-innings lead of 149 in the rain-hit match.
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