New Delhi. Asia has got its new king in terms of cricket. Sri Lanka registered a one-sided victory over Pakistan in the final played on Sunday. Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 23 runs in the title match. Before the match, there were slogans all over Pakistan that this time the Asia Cup will be of Pakistan. But the Sri Lankan young players performed brilliantly and turned away these plans of Pakistan. Bhanuka Rajapaksa scored the highest 71 runs for Sri Lanka and Pramod Madushan and Vanindu Hasaranga did the work of sending the Pakistani batsmen to the pavilion in the bowling. This is Sri Lanka’s big win over Pakistan in the big match. After the match, when Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka was asked the secret of this victory, he gave credit to the best captain in the world, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Sri Lankan captain inspired by Dhoni’s captaincy
After Sri Lanka’s victory, when the Sri Lankan captain was asked about this victory, he told that he had kept the final match of IPL 2021 in his mind. At that time, Chennai Super Kings, captained by CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, won the IPL title by batting first. After naming the match for his country, Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka said, “In IPL 2021, Chennai won the match batting first and that was what was going through my mind. We even talked about it.” For information, let us tell you that in the Asia Cup 2022, the team who batted later won the match. In such a situation, in last Sunday’s final match, Pakistani captain Babar Azam decided to bowl first after winning the toss, but his decision was proved wrong by the Sri Lankan team performing brilliantly.
The of the #AsiaCup2022
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Here is the reason for Pakistan’s defeat
At one point of time, it seemed that Pakistan would easily win the final match of the Asia Cup, but the Sri Lankan bowlers made a spectacular comeback to win the trophy. During the powerplay, Pakistan suffered two major setbacks in the form of captain Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman. After this the entire Pakistani team was on the backfoot. After this, due to the slow innings of Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan started getting away from victory. Although Rizwan and Iftikar Ahmed added 71 runs for the third wicket, they took 59 balls for this. Which cannot be considered right in terms of T20 and the current situation at that time.