Sri Lanka made it to the finals of the World T20 on a night that saw Pakistan imploding while chasing 140 on a tricky surface. Pakistan leaked 16 runs off their last over, which in the hindsight proved fatal as they went down by 15 runs at Colombo. While Sri Lanka battled for everything persistently, Pakistan had only themselves to blame for a horrendous shot selection at the worst of times.

Pakistan started the innings in a flamboyant fashion with Imran Nazir dropped first ball off an expansive cut shot at point by Dilshan, followed by a cracking drive towards cover from him off Mathews. In the next over, Kulusekara perplexed Nazir by briniging the ball into him. Pakistan rode onto Malinga's erratic start of 5 wides to move to 22 off 2.2 overs.

With Pakistan galloping, Kulusekara and Malinga hit back with an array of dot deliveries. Hafeez found it difficult to work away either of them and the run rate slumped from around 9 an over to just 6 by the end of the 4th over. Nazir then swept Mendis fine for a boundary to release the pressure in the 6th over, though Mendis got the better of him next ball with the one that rolled onto the stumps after hitting the bat.

Jayawardene played around with his bowlers, never letting Nasir Jamshed settle. Perera, Mendis, Herath and Mathews bowled from 7th to the 10th over. Hafeez tried to have a go at them and collected two boundaries off Perera and Mendis as Pakistan moved to 55/1 at the end of 9th over, the game still very much in their hands.

Mathews' over though turned the tide on Pakistan, as Nasir was given a dubious lbw decision and Kamran Akmal perished trying to chip a slower ball over the infield. Suddenly, Pakistan's task had gone stiffer with 58/3 at the halfway stage.

Things only got worse for Pakistan, as Shoaib Malik was squared up by a delivery from Herath that turned from off and middle. Hafeez, running out of partners went over Mathews only to be dropped at long on, as Malinga missed a sitter. Hafeez made them pay with 10 runs of Herath's next over which included the match's only six. Though, Herath got Hafeez stumped in the next over as the ball kept low.

The Pakistani Spinner Abdur Rehman has been banned for 12 weeks by the ECB after testing positive for cannabis while playing county cricket for Somerset. The ban has been given in relevance to ECB’s anti-doping rules which applies to all the countries bound to the World Anti-Doping code.

Abdur Rehman provided the sample that was tested positive during Somerset’s match against Nottinghamshire on August 8. The ban will be lifted on December 22, which means he will not be available to play for Sialkot Stallions in the upcoming Champions’ League which starts next Tuesday in South Africa.

Somerset’s Chief Executive Guy Lavender supported ECB’s decision saying “The club does not condone the use of illegal drugs in any circumstances and all Somerset players are made fully aware of this policy on a regular basis."

Pakistan in ICC men’s tournaments since 2007 WT20

2007 World T20 = Finalists

2008 Under-19 World Cup = Semi finalists

2009 World T20 = Winners

2009 Champions Trophy = Semi finalists

2010 Under-19 World Cup = Finalists

2010 World T20 = Semi-finalists

2011 World Cup = Semi-finalists

2012 Under-19 World Cup = Quarter Finalists

Barring the recent disappointments of the junior side in Townsville, Pakistan have reached 8 semi-finals in ICC tournaments over the last 5 years

India beat South Africa by one run in the final super-eight game of the 2012 World T20 but saw themselves being eliminated by arch rivals Pakistan in the process. They needed to restrict South Africa to a score below 122 but that was always a tough task.

On the deciding day for all the teams in the second group of the super-8s, the stuttering Pakistan were up against the unbeaten Aussies needing a win to stay in this tournament.

Hafeez won the toss yet again and chose to bat bringing in Abdul Razzaq for Yasir Arafat. It looked like Pakistan were heading for another collapse as both the openers were dismissed within the power-play. But Nasir Jamshed and Kamran Akmal made sure that that wasn’t the case with a valuable 79-run partnership. Pakistan lost the plot again in the last 5 overs but managed to reach 149-6 by the end of the innings. Nasir Jamshed top-scored with 55 off 46 balls and Mitchell Starc was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3-20.

The defending champions England came in to this game having won only one of their two games in this phase, they needed to win this match to qualify for the semi-finals. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, already had 4 points so they would qualify either way.

Stuart Broad won the toss and chose to bowl with Bopara, Patel and Dernbach replacing Kieswetter, Bresnan and Briggs. Meanwhile Sangakarra replaced Jayawardena as the Sri Lankan captain in this match to avoid slow over-rate ban, and Dananjaya was brought in for Herath.

It was a do-or-die game for both teams as New Zealand had lost both their previous fixtures in the super 8 and West Indies had won only one game. The loser would be out of the tournament.

Ross Taylor won the toss and chose to bowl against the West Indies, who again, failed to score big and kept losing wickets regularly. They ended up getting bowled out with three balls to spare in the innings after scoring 139 runs. Chris Gayle top-scored with 30 off 13 balls with Tim Southee and the young Doug Bracewell both picking up 3 wickets.

It looked an easy chase for the kiwis with their power-packed batting line-up. But they went down the same road as the windies and kept losing wicket regularly. Sunil Narine kept West Indies in the game till the last over with the excellent figures of 3-20. Despite scoring 62 off 30 balls, the skipper Ross Taylor couldn’t take the kiwis across the line and the game ended up in a tie which meant New Zealand would appear in their second super-over eliminator in the Super-8s and in the tournament.

He was the leading wicket taker in the Faysal Bank Super 8s at Rawalpindi in March of this year with 12 wickets in 5 matches

He was the man-of-the-match in the Faysal Bank Twenty20 Cup final in October 2011 against his former team Rawalpindi Rams

He was one of the top 3 leading wicket takers in the inaugural Faysal Bank Twenty20 Super 8s edition, best remembered for bowling a magical super over in a tied final between Rawalpindi Rams and Karachi Dolphins

A superb all-round show from Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh saw India steamroll to a comfortable 8 wicket win over arch rivals Pakistan. Kohli followed up his wicket of Pakistani skipper Mohammad Hafeez with a splendid knock of 78 not out from a mere 61 balls.

Yuvraj Singh was not too far behind as he sealed India's win with a calm 19 to go along with his 2 wickets for a mere 16 runs. Pakistan, in the field looked devoid of ideas as they looked for wickets but the calmness of the Indian batters was always shining through despite Raza Hasan getting Gambhir out in the first over of the chase.

Earlier in the day, Pakistan won the toss and batted first which in hindsight gave the game advantage to India with their brutal batting order. Pakistan got off to a flier but that was short lived as Irfan Pathan trapped Imran Nazir LBW in the second over. It was all downhill after that and constant wickets falling never let Pakistan get back into the game. Pakistan were bowled out for 128 in the last over, a target that was never going to test the might of Kohli and co.