Sri Lanka power past Bangladesh at the 2025 Asia Cup

Sri Lanka unfastened their 2025 Asia Cup relationship with a broad six wicket T20 triumph against Bangladesh successful Abu Dhabi.

Pathum Nissanka became the quickest Sri Lankan batter to scope 2,000 T20 runs arsenic the opener sprinted his squad to a six-wicket win implicit Bangladesh successful a important Asia Cup lucifer connected Saturday.

Nissanka perfectly manipulated the enactment and lengths of the Bangladeshi bowlers to people 50 disconnected 34 balls, and Sri Lanka breezed to 140-4 successful a beardown commencement to its campaign.

Recommended Stories

• list 1 of 4Alvarez, Crawford some standard 167.5 pounds earlier blockbuster boxing match
• list 2 of 4Man City and Man Utd anticipation not to driblet the shot successful EPL derby – each to know
• list 3 of 4Will Canelo vs Crawford beryllium 1 of the biggest fights successful Las Vegas history?
• list 4 of 4Spanish curate calls for Israel to beryllium banned from sport

Bangladesh, which handed Hong Kong a seven-wicket drubbing successful its archetypal Group B game, recovered from a fearfulness commencement to people 139-5 aft it mislaid some openers to accelerated bowler Nuwan Thushara and Dushmantha Chameera’s successive wicket maidens with the caller ball.

Nissanka batted fluently and scored six fours and a six arsenic helium reached the 2,000-run landmark successful his 68th T20 innings erstwhile helium completed his half-century. Kusal Perera had the erstwhile Sri Lanka record, achieving the feat successful 76 innings.

Nissanka fell soon aft his entertaining 95-run basal with Kamil Mishara (46 not out) had each but sealed the game, erstwhile Shoriful Islam held connected to a spectacular two-handed drawback astatine heavy backward quadrate leg.

Bangladesh had to wage a dense terms for dropping Mishra connected 1 erstwhile Mahedi Hassan could not clasp connected to a two-handed drawback adjacent to the 30-metre ellipse astatine wide mid-on. Although Perera and Dasun Shanaka besides perished rapidly portion going for large shots, Mishara’s unbeaten sound of 32 balls ensured Sri Lanka finished disconnected the crippled with much than 5 overs to spare.

Earlier, aft being enactment into bat, Shamim Hossain (42) and Jaker Ali (41) helped Bangladesh retrieve from a disastrous commencement successful the 2nd fractional of their innings erstwhile they combined successful an 86-run unbroken basal disconnected 61 balls.

Wanindu Hasaranga made an impactful instrumentality to planetary cricket with figures of 2-25 aft missing the past bid against Zimbabwe owed to a hamstring injury. The limb spinner should person had the wicket of Jaker successful his eventful 2nd over, lone to spot his crisp googly grazing the disconnected stump aft going done the defences of the batter, but some bails stayed connected the stumps.

Hasaranga’s crisp spinning deliveries and the duplicate strikes of Thushara and Chameera saw Bangladesh slump to 53-5 successful the 10th implicit erstwhile skipper Litton Das (28) was retired limb earlier wicket portion attempting a reverse expanse against Hasaranga.

Chameera bowled immoderate awesome yorkers successful the decease overs and finished with identical figures of 4-1-17-1 with Thushara. Shamim deed the lone six successful Bangladesh’s different antiaircraft innings erstwhile helium smacked the lone off-colour Sri Lanka bowler — Matheesha Pathirara (0-42) — implicit midwicket.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies