The first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka ended in a draw in Rawalpindi on Friday after five days, with both sides taking points in the ICC World Test Championship 2025–27.
The match was drawn after five days of competitive cricket, the Daily Mirror reported at 5.41 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are left looking to strengthen their championship positions, the filing says, and Pakistan will be disappointed not to have converted their efforts into a victory on home soil.
How the match got there
This desk tracked the Test across its first four days. Pakistan batted first and were held to 434 for nine declared, with Sri Lanka replying with 446 all out to take a 12-run first-innings lead — built on 167 from Dhananjaya de Silva and 119 from Kusal Mendis, against seven for 130 from Saqib Khan.
Earlier coverage: the Test opened on 9 November, day two, and Sri Lanka’s 404 and the de Silva–Mendis stand.
Elsewhere in the championship
The Daily Mirror’s filing is a standings round-up rather than a match report, and it records three other results bearing on the race:
- West Indies secured a 1-0 series victory over Bangladesh after the final Test was drawn, taking championship points from an away series.
- South Africa climbed to second place after a 2-1 home series win over Australia.
- New Zealand moved to the top of the standings, pushing Australia down.
The filing says teams will be aiming to take maximum points from their remaining fixtures as the race for the top two places intensifies.
Not reported
The Daily Mirror’s filing carries no second-innings scores for either side, no individual batting or bowling figures from the final two days, and no account of how the draw came about — whether the match was saved, shut down by agreement, or affected by weather. It does not give a man of the match.
It also does not state, in text, where Sri Lanka or Pakistan now stand in the championship table or on what points percentage. The standings the article refers to were published as an image hosted on a Daily Mirror object-storage server that has been unreachable to this desk for several weeks, so the numbers could not be read and are not reproduced here.
Searches of the verified Sri Lankan newsrooms returned no day-five match report at the time of writing, and ESPNcricinfo returned HTTP 403 on both available routes, so no scorecard source could be fetched. Figures circulating in search summaries for the second innings were not reproduced: they conflict with each other on which innings a near-century belonged to, and none came from a source this desk could fetch and date.
The date and venue of the second Test are not given in this filing.
