Sri Lankan team has already been eliminated from Super-8.Today Sri Lanka won its first match in T20 World Cup 2024.Sri Lanka got a big win against Netherlands.
New Delhi. During the match against Netherlands, Sri Lanka’s team won the T20 World Cup match by 83 runs. Both the teams are out of the race for Super-8. Sri Lanka got its first win in the tournament today. It has ended its World Cup campaign at number-3. It was first defeated by South Africa by six wickets. After this, Bangladesh’s team also managed to win the match by two wickets. Sri Lanka’s match against Nepal was canceled due to rain. Today, the team captained by Vanindu Hasaranga won over Netherlands.
South Africa and Bangladesh have made it to the Super-8 from Group-D in the T20 World Cup. Talking about today’s match, Sri Lanka, batting first, scored 201 runs for the loss of six wickets after 20 overs of batting. While chasing the target, the Netherlands team was all out for 118 runs in the 17th over. Sri Lanka’s Charit Aslanka was the man of the match. He scored 46 runs in 21 balls with the help of five sixes and one four. During this, his strike rate was around 220.
Explosive batting by Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s start was not very good. Opening batsman Pathum Nissanka was out on zero. The other opening batsman Kusal Mendis scored 46 runs in 29 balls. Kamindu Mendis scored 17 and Dhananjay de Silva scored 34 runs in 26 balls. Apart from Aslanka’s brilliant innings, Angelo Mathews scored 30 runs in 15 balls and captain Wanindu Hasaranga scored 20 runs in six balls.
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Netherlands bowed down
While chasing the target, Netherlands had a good start. The team lost its first wicket at 45 runs. However, after this, the wickets started falling in such a way that the entire team was all out by the time it reached 116 runs. Nuwan Thushara took three wickets. Whereas, Wanindu Hasaranga and Mathisha Pathirana took two wickets each.
Sri Lanka will return to the country with this peace…
Sri Lanka’s team may have been out of the T20 World Cup 2024, but despite this, it has confirmed its place in the T20 World Cup 2026. It is jointly hosting the next World Cup along with India. In such a situation, even if its performance has not been good, but being the host, it will play in the tournament under all circumstances. If the Sri Lankan team was not the host, it would have had to make a place in the next tournament through the qualifier round.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 17, 2024, 09:40 IST