5 things that makes Sri Lanka's 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan special

Contrasting forms of both teams leading into the series

Both teams couldn’t have come into the series with more contrasting fortunes. Coming into this series, Pakistan had lost just five out of their 18 completed fixtures since the start of 2018; that’s the exact number of T20Is Sri Lanka have lost this year (1 win in seven games in T20Is before this series).

And, if one compares with their record since the start of 2018, the island nation had won the same number of games (5 wins in 15 games) since Jan 2018 before the start of this series) that Pakistan has lost.

In fact, one look at the W/L ratio for all sides since January 2018 up until the start of this series and one’ll realize the magnanimity of what has just transpired. While Pakistan had an overall Win/Loss ratio of 3.600 (18 wins, 5 defeats), one will have to scroll down the screen to see where Sri Lanka is languishing. And, the numbers will leave one gobsmacked!

Since the start of 2018, countries like P.N.G (8 wins in 9 matches), Germany (7 wins in 10 matches), Namibia (7 wins in 7 matches), Nepal (7 wins in 13 matches), Ireland (6 wins in 19 games), and Qatar (6 wins in 12 games) and many other newbies, had more wins and a better W/L ratio than Sri Lanka’s 5 (from 13 games) and 0.555 respectively. 

Well! That pretty much puts the significance of this achievement into a real context.