Scoreboard
(D. Chandimal 155 not out, D. Karunaratne 93, N. Dickwella 83; Abbas 3-75, Yasir Shah 3-120) Shan Masood .................................... 59 (Ball sneaks under the bat and leg stump is rattled) Sami Aslam .............................. 51 (Skids through from back of a length and thuds into his pad in front of middle stump) Azhar Ali ....................................... 74 Asad Shafiq ................ 39 (Dabs it to first slip) Babar Azam ............... 28 (Tried to work down the leg side and edged it) .............................
...... Haris Sohail, Sarfraz Ahmed, Mohammad Amir, Yasir Shah, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Abbas
1-114 (Aslam), 2-116 (Masood), 3-195 (Shafiq), 4-266 (Azam)
Lakmal 15-3-30-0 (1nb), Pradeep 16.41-44-1, Perera 27-7-58-1, Sundakan 26-6-68-0, Herath 25-6-47-2, Karunaratne 3-1-6-0 Richard Kettleborough (ENG)and Nigel Llong (ENG) Ahsan Raza (PAK) Masood and Sami Aslam who set the platform for a big total by putting together a solid 114-run opening stand after they resumed at 64 without loss.
Sri Lanka, however, hit back by removing both openers in the space of two runs.
Aslam, recalled after being dropped from the West Indies tour on disciplinary grounds earlier this year, was trapped leg- before by off- break bowler Dilruwan Perera. He hit four boundaries in his seventh Test half century.
Two runs later Masood attempted a sweep shot off the wily Herath but missed the ball and was bowled round his legs.
Pakistan had luck on their side with the reviews as both Ali and Shafiq survived confident appeals. Ali wisely reviewed a leg-before decision off Perera, but the ball hit his bat before the pad.
Shafiq was given not out on a review when he was stumped off Herath on one.
It was Herath who finally dislodged Shafiq when a sharp turner caught an edge off Shafiq's bat, deflected f rom wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella's thigh to slip where Lahiru Thirimanne took the catch.