Asia Cup 2022 / Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan by 4 wickets in a thrilling match

Asia Cup 2022: The first match of Super 4 in Asia Cup 2022 was played between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Sharjah. In this match, Sri Lanka made a great start to Super 4 by registering a scintillating win. At the same time, in the Asia Cup 2022, the Afghanistan team had to face the first defeat. In this match, Sri Lanka's batsmen won by chasing a big score. In this match, the batsmen of both the teams dominated.

Stunning win for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka defeated Afghanistan by 4 wickets in this match. While batting first, Afghanistan had set a target of 176 runs in front of Sri Lanka, which Sri Lanka achieved at the loss of 6 wickets. Sri Lanka won the match with 5 balls to spare. Kusal Mendis scored the highest 36 runs for Sri Lanka, while Pathum Nisanka scored 35 runs, Danushka Gunathilaka scored 33 runs and Bhanuka Rajapaksa also scored 33 runs.

Gurbaz played a stormy innings

Afghanistan scored a half-century of 84 runs in 45 balls with the help of four fours and six sixes from Rahmanullah Gurbaz, his second wicket partnership of 93 runs with Ibrahim Zadran (40 runs) made a challenging 175 for six against Sri Lanka. Scored up. Afghanistan's innings slowed down as soon as Gurbaz was dismissed. Apart from these two, Najibullah Zadran contributed 17 and Hazratullah Zazai contributed 13 runs. Gurbaz got out in the 16th over and the team could add only 37 runs in the last five overs for the loss of five wickets.

avenge the previous defeat

In the Asia Cup 2022, this second match was played between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Earlier, the match was played between the two teams in the group stage. Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in that match. The Sri Lankan team will now play their next match against Team India on September 6, while the Afghanistan team will face Pakistan on September 7.