Sohail Tanvir opens the Pakistan attack with an 18-run over after Kumar Sangakkara wins the toss and elects to bat with Tillakaratne Dilshan and Sanath Jayasuriya opening
Dilshan, ever the entertainer, is in the mood for a big score, playing an impudent array of idiosyncratic lobs, cuts, and sweeps - Sri Lanka are 80-0 after eight overs
Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's only bowler in form, gets Jayasuriya to edge one to Younus Khan. With Dilshan a second victim, Afridi now has 9-2 from three overs, and, more importantly, put the stops on Sri Lanka's run-rate
The team in blue are in trouble after 14 overs, 30 runs from the last six overs, and captain Sangakkara is gone following a top-drawer stumping by Kamran Akmal off Saeed Ajmal
If Sri Lanka began their innings like a restless child, Pakistan tuck them up in bed by the end as the wickets fall, including two for Umar Gul, and the predicted run-rate crumbles, finishing on 150-7
Sangakkara's side could not better avenge their innings than have Angelo Mathews clean bowl Salman Butt with the third ball of the Pakistan reply without scoring
Shoaib Malik tries to bring impetus to the Pakistan innings with several bullish drives and a lucky cut or two but his side are scoring approximately four runs per over early on, when they need eight
Shoaib helps smash 15 runs from the fifth over, only to be stumped two balls in to the sixth. With Akmal run out next ball, Pakistan are in trouble and the game is there for whichever team wants to win it
Misbah Ul-Haq's dismissal in the 15th over spells the end as Afridi follows next ball trying to smash Muttiah Muralitharan for six, and Younus and Tanvir both succumb, caught off the bowling of Lasith Malinga, soon after
That Sri Lanka win by 19 runs is a formality, leaving Pakistan to wonder, like Australia before them, why the island nation has taken so well to this format of the game
India v West Indies: Mahendra Dhoni, as always, wins the toss and throws his team in for a bat and although Rohit Sharma looks tidy he is out in the second over, caught Lendl Simmons, bowled Fidel Edwards, for four
At 25-1 from three overs, India stammer as Suresh Raina is also caught off Edwards' bowling and Gautam Gambhir is removed by a well-held Simmons catch, staggering to 50-3 from nine overs
Dhoni goes in the 13th over but his side add 60 runs in the five following overs, including a 50 for Yuvraj Singh (from 37 balls), and looking good for a competitive score
Yuvraj eventually top edges a short ball back to Edwards' welcoming hands to close his innings at 67 from 43 balls, India 130-5 with the Pathan brothers on strike and just over two overs left
Both the Pathans are gone in the final over, including another Simmons catch, buoying the West Indies, only for Harbhajan Singh to pick three fours from the last three balls, India finish 153-7
The West Indies response stutters as Andre Fletcher departs, caught from his second ball by Yuvraj, though the run-rate is at least steady: 18 from three overs, 24 from four, 30 from five
As the evening shadows sweep across Lord's, the tension increases as Simmons and Chris Gayle begin the run-chase in earnest with nine fours between the pair
India pick up the crucial wicket of Gayle, the man who saw off the Australians, through the bowling of Yusuf Pathan on the back of a maiden over from Harbhajan
But some adventurous shots from Simmons (44), so impressive in the field, and Dwayne Bravo keep the game in the balance, 58 from the Trinidadian partnership
And some scintillating late hitting from Bravo, on his way to 66 not out from 36 balls, takes West Indies to a famous win over the World Twenty20 champions
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