Abu Dhabi, 24 September (). In the very important match of Asia Cup Super-4, Pakistan has upheld its hope of defeating Sri Lanka by 5 wickets to reach the finals.
Sri Lanka gave a target of 134 runs to win Pakistan in the match played on Tuesday at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan won the match by 5 wickets by scoring 138 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 18 overs thanks to Hussain Talat’s unbeaten 32 and Mohammad Nawaz’s unbeaten 38 runs.
Pakistan was given a concrete start by Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman and shared a 45 -run partnership for the first wicket. After Farhan’s wicket fell, there was a line of wickets. The team lost their 5 wickets by 80. After this, Hussain Talat and Mohammad Nawaz took over the front and shared an unbeaten 58 -run and gave Pakistan a win by 5 wickets.
With this victory, Pakistan’s hope of playing the Asia Cup final is left, so Sri Lanka’s expectations are over. Sri Lanka also lost to Bangladesh in their last match.
Sri Lanka started to bat first after losing the toss. Openers Nisanka and Kusal Mendis became victims of Shaheen Afridi at a score of 8 and zeros respectively. Kusal Perera, who landed at number three, became a victim of Haris Rauf by scoring 15 runs off 12 balls. At the same time, captain Charith Asanka, who came at number four, was dismissed for 20 runs off 19 balls. Former captain Shanaka was dismissed for zero. Hasranga scored 15 runs.
Kamindu Mendis and Chamika Karunaratne shared a 43 -run partnership for the seventh wicket to reach the team’s score to 123. Kamindu Mendis scored a half -century. He was dismissed by playing 50 runs off 44 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Chamika scored 17 runs of Karunaratne. Thanks to Mendis’ half -century, Sri Lanka could score 133 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Shaheen Afridi took 3 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. Hussain Talat took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 3 overs. Haris Rauf took 2 for 37 runs in 4 overs, Abrar Ahmed took 1 wicket for just 8 runs in 4 overs.
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