Sri Lanka v Pakistan, first Test, Galle:
Day one: Sri Lanka 292 all out Pakistan 15-2
Match scorecard
 Two late wickets gave Sri Lanka the slight upper hand
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Sri Lanka were reduced to 292 all out by Pakistan on the first day of their first Test but hit back by reducing the visitors to 15-2 by the close of play.
Pakistan's pace debutants Mohammad Aamer (3-74) and Abdur Rauf (2-59) had given their side the upper hand.
Sri Lanka had been 21-2 but Tharanga Paranavitana (72) top scored to give them more of a total to defend.
The hosts started promisingly as Salman Butt and Khurram Manzoor were quickly dismissed to give them the initiative.
Nuwan Kulasekara bowled Butt for a first-ball duck and Thilan Thushara trapped fellow opener Manzoor leg before wicket for just two.
There was a strong security presence in Galle for a Test which came four months after a terror attack on the Sri Lanka team in Pakistan.
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It was there first meeting on the subcontinent since the attack, although the pair did meet when Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20.
And the touring side started well as they met again, with Aamer sending Malinda Warnapura back to the pavilion in his first over.
The pace and movement of Aamer was causing problems and he soon had Sri Lanka keeper Kumar Sangakkara caught at third slip by Shoaib Malik.
Malik dropped Paranavitana on four and keeper Kamran Akmal put down a chance from Mahela Jayawardene as Pakistan's fielding let them down.
Paranavitana went on to anchor the Sri Lanka innings as he steered them to some sort of respectability, while Jayawardene reached 30.
Jayawardene's innings epitomised most of those by the Sri Lankans, without the injured spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, as they got themselves in before falling.
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