BENONI (SOUTH AFRICA), April 15: Sri Lanka scored an emphatic 115-run win over Pakistan at Willowmore Park here today to play themselves back into contention for a place in the final of the Triangular limited-overs series that also features South Africa. The victory enabled Sri Lanka to draw level with Pakistan in the round-robin standings; both sides have two wins from five games and both still have to play South Africa, who have three wins from four matches.Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan took a career-best five for 23 as Pakistan were bowled out for 173 in reply to Sri Lanka's 288 all out.Maravan Atapattu and skipper Arjuna Ranatunga set up Sri Lanka's big total with a fourth-wicket stand of 138 in 148 balls. Ranatunga scored his third half-century in four innings in making a fluent 78 off 72 balls.Pakistan all-rounder Wasim Akram took four for 43, taking two wickets off successive balls as the Sri Lankan stuttered in the last 10 overs. While Wasim was successful, his new ball partnerWaqar Younis was hit for 86 runs in 10 overs - the most conceded in a ODI by any Pakistani bowler.SCOREBOARDSri Lanka: Sanath Jayasuriya b Mahmood 30, Romesh Kaluwitharana c Mushtaq Ahmed b Akram 33, Maravan Atapattu b Akram 94, Aravinda de Silva b Razzaq 2, Arjuna Ranatunga b Akram 78, Pramodaya Wickremasinghe c Younis b Akram 0, Roshan Mahanama run out sub (Hussain) 2, Mahela Jayawardena c Latif b Younis 0, Kumar Dharmasena c Afridi b Younis 20, Chaminda Vaas run out 4, Muttiah Muralitharan not out 1;Extras (lb12, w12): 24.Total (in 49.4 overs): 288Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-91, 3-94, 4-232, 5-232, 6-238, 7-238, 8-281, 9-286Bowling: Akram 9.4-1-43-4, Younis 10-0-86-2, Razzaq 9-1-50-1, Mahmood 10-0-33-1, Mushtaq Ahmed 9-0-46-0, Afridi 2-0-18-0.Pakistan: Saeed Anwar b Muralitharan 59, Shahid Afridi run out (Jayawardene) 6, Ijaz Ahmed c Kaluwitharana b Vaas 8, Abdul Razzak b Vaas 0, Inzaman-ul Haq c Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe 3, Yousaf Youhana run out (Kaluwitharana) 29, AzharMahmood c Dharmasena b Muralitharan 13, Wasim Akram st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 13, Rashid Latif b Muralitharan 6, Waqar Younis c Vaas b Muralitharan 17, Mushtaq Ahmed not out 1;Extras (w6): 6.Total (all out in 39.2 overs): 173Bowling: Vaas 7-0-33-2 (w2), Wickramasinghe 7-1-23-1 (w4), Jayawardene 3-0-17-0, Dharmasena 8-0-30-0, Muralitharan 9.2-0-23-5, Jayasuriya 5-0-35-0Result: Sri Lanka won by 115 runsMan of the Match: Maravan Atapattu
