Pakistan vs Sri Lanka ODI: Sri Lanka Bowl Pakistan Out for 110 and Win by 8 Wickets in Lahore
Pakistan suffered a heavy defeat in front of their home crowd in Lahore on Tuesday, 27 October 2026, collapsing to 110 all out before Sri Lanka chased the target down with eight wickets in hand. The result, in the fifth match of the ODI tri-series at Gaddafi Stadium, confirmed that Sri Lanka will meet Pakistan again in the final, while England are out of the tournament.
It was a night of sharp contrasts for the hosts. Just two days earlier, Pakistan had pulled off a remarkable one-wicket win over England at the same ground. This time there was no late rescue. Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl, and from the first few overs Pakistan were under pressure they never escaped.
Left-arm fast bowler Dilshan Madushanka was the destroyer, finishing with career-best figures of five wickets for 34 runs. Kamindu Mendis then anchored the chase with an unbeaten 62, and Sri Lanka reached 114 for two in only 18.1 overs, with 191 balls still unused.
Pakistan collapse in Lahore: 110 all out in 25.3 overs
Pakistan’s innings lasted just 25.3 overs. The hosts lost their first wicket at 11, their second at 23, and by the time the score reached 61, half the side was back in the pavilion. There was no partnership of substance until a late stand for the seventh wicket, and even that only took the total to 91.
The early damage was done by Madushanka and Asitha Fernando with the new ball. Fakhar Zaman made five from 13 balls, Maaz Sadaqat made eight from 11, and Saad Baig made five from eight. Pakistan were 23 for two after 6.2 overs, and the crowd, which had seen a famous win two nights earlier, fell quiet.
Babar Azam, Pakistan’s most experienced batter, tried to hold the innings together. He top-scored with 29 from 33 balls, hitting five fours, but he found no lasting support. When he was trapped leg before by Eshan Malinga, Pakistan were 61 for five in the 14th over, and the match was already slipping away.
Madushanka’s career-best five-wicket haul
Madushanka finished with five wickets for 34 runs from 8.3 overs, the best figures of his one-day international career. His previous best was five for 80 against India in Mumbai at the 2023 World Cup, and this performance went well beyond it.
He struck in the fourth over, removing Fakhar Zaman, and kept coming back for more. He dismissed Saad Baig, then returned late in the innings to remove Haris Rauf and captain Shaheen Shah Afridi, completing his five-wicket haul by bowling out the hosts. He was later named player of the match.
Madushanka was not working alone. Sahan Arachchige took two wickets for 24 runs, and Eshan Malinga, Asitha Fernando and Dunith Wellalage took one wicket each. Sri Lanka’s bowlers kept the pressure on throughout, giving Pakistan’s batters no easy runs and no time to settle.
Babar stands alone as the middle order falls
The middle order, which had produced heroics earlier in the series, failed as a group. Salman Ali Agha, who had scored a century against Sri Lanka in the tri-series opener, made only nine from 14 balls. Shadab Khan, the hero of the win over England with an unbeaten 113, made two from five balls.
Hasan Nawaz, with 17 from 31 balls, was Pakistan’s second-highest scorer, and Arafat Minhas made 10 from 18 balls in a 27-run seventh-wicket stand with Hasan. That stand was Pakistan’s best partnership of the day, which tells its own story about how badly the innings went.
Captain Shaheen Shah Afridi gave the total some respectability at the end, hitting two sixes in a quick 15 from 13 balls, and Naseem Shah finished two not out. But Shaheen’s dismissal, to Madushanka, ended the innings at 110, and Pakistan had used less than half of their 50 overs.
Kamindu Mendis finishes the chase in 18.1 overs
Chasing only 111, Sri Lanka lost an early wicket but never looked in trouble. Kamindu Mendis, who was dropped early in his innings, made the hosts pay. He reached his half-century from 42 balls and finished unbeaten on 62 from 60 balls, hitting eight fours and two sixes.
Avishka Fernando fell with the score on 50, and Kusal Mendis departed at 62, but by then the chase was already under control. Pavan Rathnayake finished unbeaten on 23, and he hit the winning runs on the first ball of the 19th over.
Sri Lanka’s chase took 109 legal balls. In a 50-over innings there are 300 legal balls available, so 191 balls remained unused when the winning runs were scored. It was as one-sided a finish as the first innings had suggested it would be.
What the result means: final set, England out
The result settles the tri-series. Pakistan and Sri Lanka will contest the final on 31 October 2026, and England, who have not won a match in the series, are eliminated. Sri Lanka still have a match against England on 29 October, but it cannot change the final pairing.
For Pakistan, the defeat does not remove them from the tournament, but it does change the mood around the final. A team that had won a thriller against England and beaten them by 87 runs earlier in the series now goes into the final on the back of a heavy home defeat.
For Sri Lanka, the win continues a remarkable run in this series. Only a week earlier, they had chased down 430 to beat England in Rawalpindi, the second-highest successful chase in one-day international history. Now they have bowled out the hosts for 110 and won with more than 30 overs to spare.
From Shadab’s heroics to a night to forget: what Pakistan must fix before the final
The contrast between Pakistan’s last two matches in Lahore could hardly be greater. Against England, Shadab Khan’s unbeaten 113 rescued Pakistan from 154 for nine to a one-wicket win. Against Sri Lanka, no batter reached 30, and the side was bowled out before the halfway mark of its innings.
The problems were not mysterious. Pakistan lost wickets in clusters, no batter built a partnership with Babar Azam, and the lower order was exposed far too early. Against a disciplined Sri Lankan attack, there was no recovery once the score reached 61 for five.
Pakistan will get one more chance against the same opponents, in the final on 31 October, and this time the stakes are higher than a group match. The hosts will need their top order to last longer, their middle order to build partnerships rather than cameos, and their bowlers to defend whatever total they set. On the evidence of Tuesday night in Lahore, none of that can be taken for granted.
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