The Pakistani and Sri Lankan captains have just exchanged their team sheets.
Hafeez calls tails and loses the toss. Big cheers. Sri Lanka have decided to bat.
Jayawardene thinks the track will help his spinners in the latter half of the game.
Sri Lanka dropped Akila Dananjaya and brought in Rangana Herath while Pakistan replaced Abdul Razzaq with Sohail Tanvir.
It will be a battle of attrition between the two sides who had met in the final of the 2009 edition of the tournament in England where Pakistan emerged victorious.
The scene is entirely different this time around as Mohammed Hafeez and his boys will be facing a formidable Sri Lankan outfit in their own backyard.
What will be the most interesting thing to see is battle between the top quality spin departments of both sides.
Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez*, Imran Nazir, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Raza Hasan
Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene, TM Dilshan, KC Sangakkara, AD Mathews, BMAJ Mendis, HDRL Thirimanne, NLTC Perera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, HMRKB Herath, BAW Mendis
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