Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan Highlights, Asia Cup 2025: Peace Kusal Mendis fifty under pressure overshadowed the six -beat festival from Mohammd Nabi when Sri Lanka set off Afghanistan from the Asia Cup with a victory of six goals on Thursday and Bangladesh sent to Super 4S.
Sri Lanka Pacer Nuwan Thushara (4/18) intervened three times in his deadly opening spell before Nabi broke five six in 20th place to eject Afghanistan at 169 for eight of the monster 79 in six.
The game went down to the wire with Kusal Mendis (74 not out) anchoring the persecution of Sri Lanka. Eventually Kusal and Kamindu Mendis (26 not outside 13) finished work at 18.4 overs.
With three wins from so many games, Sri Lanka overcame group B, while Bangladesh advanced too much to the next phase with two wins from three games, including against the T20 Afghanistan World Cup semifinalists.
After qualifying for the finals in the middle of their persecution, Sri Lanka did not satisfy anything less than the victory. With 48 needs from the last 30 balls and six goals in hand, Sri Lanka had the upper hand.
Captain Afghanistan Rashid Khan admitted only 23 runs in his four exceeds, with too many risks against him. He. But he hurt his back in his final when he forced him from the field.
17. From Noora Ahmad brought 17 runs and certainly leaned the game in favor of Sri Lanka.
Previously, Afghanistan seemed to try to pass around 120, but Nabi (60 out of 22) hammered five six in the 20th place from the left shoulder Spinner Dunun Wellalage to collect 32 runs out of six legitimate balls.
It is unusual that Spinner gets to the finals, but Captain Charith Asala has already exhausted his possibilities of bowling pace.
In the recent past, Afghanistan has been chasing in the recent past and decided by a bat, but lost three goals inside the powerplay to lose the driving force generated in the first two breaks that brought 26 runs.
The intention that was missing in the last game was there, but Afghanistan dough did not know how to deal with the movable ball from Thushara, who produced a late swing with his crazy action and caught like Karim Janat (1) and Sediquallah Atal (18 of 14) outside the guard.
Thushara bowed away with the right -handed Janata before similar delivery led to the fall of the dangerous left Atal, who also saw his stumps disturbed.
Opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz was the first to get out, thinking about a wild slogan, which was exposed to a wide slide.
Wellalage and Wanind Hasarang were filmed in the middle crossing when the goals continued to descend and Afghanistan reduced to 79 to six in 13th place.
But the polite Captain Rashid Khan (24 out of 23) and his 35-run seventh goal stand with Nabi, Afghanistan was able to cross 140. Rashid’s Cameo included six in the area of the cow’s corner area-in the area-tricked, which now appears regularly in his book.
Nabi broke Dirtha Chameer in three consecutive four consecutive ones in the penultimate of what was 17 runs. Chameera showed up quite expensive at night, and up to 50 runs escaped at four breaks.
In addition to their impressive bowling efforts, the Sri Lanka field was on the spot, well summarized the catches of Chameer and Kusal Perera in Hluboká to release Ibrahim Nadran (24) and Darwish Rasooli.
