Pakistan and Sri Lanka start the limited overs part of the series starting in Sharjah on Friday. Here are some stats, some that have some compelling reading.

Head to head:

Total games 121

Pakistan 71

Sri Lanka 46

Tie 1

No results 3

Pakistan:

Younis Khan has the most runs amonst the present Pakistan players against Sri Lanka with 1039 runs in 35 games.

Abdul Razzaq leads the bowling charts with 48 wickets from 43 games.

Shahid Afridi with 109 is the highest score for Pakistan in this fixture.

Sri Lanka:

Mahela Jayawardene has the most runs against Pakistan with 1405 runs in 52 ODI's.

With 22 wickets in 13 games, Dilhara Fernando is the leading wicket taker.

Current captain Dilhan has the highest score with a unbeaten 137.

Last game:

The last time both teams met in a ODI game was in March this year in a world cup group stage game. Pakistan won the close encounter by 11 runs.

What about 2011?

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Its pretty clear that the win has very less significance , India has to tour Australia latter this year and playing on low and slow wickets before leaving for Australia defies logic . The management needs to make sure that the next two matches are played on bouncy wickets , west indies has some quick bowlers in its squad who will help the Indian batsmen with much needed practice before the Aus tour. ..Ravi Chandran Ashwin has proved that he can not only be a matchwinner in the Limited-over format , but also in tests. The success of the the spinners augurs well for the future.

Amir, Asif and Salman, who once had the Cricket world down on their knees found themselves trapped and caught for a crime otherwise committed by every other cricketing nation. As rightly pointed out by Junoon's Salman Ahmed on Twitter 'Pakistan players are small fry in context of $500bn (500,000,000,000) illegal market'. The figures are: 2,500 pounds for Amir, 10,000 for Butt and 65,000 for Asif (Total $ 123,500/-) . All in all they share 0.00002% of the total corruption for which they have already been reprimanded and they are serving imprisonment. So what about the other sports-criminals at lose? Pakistani sportsmen are already under strict scrutiny after the spot-fixing saga, which will eventully help promote honest and fair Sports in the country.

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