Asia Cup final between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka: Afghanistan cricket team has created history. This result was not achieved by the senior team, but by the A team. Afghanistan’s A team won the ACC Emerging Asia Cup. This is the first time he has received this title. Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka A by 7 wickets in the final. Afghanistan defeated India A in the semi-finals. Sri Lanka A defeated Pakistan A in semi-final 1.
Let us tell you that Pakistan team won the championship in 2023. India A team then finished second. The Indian team won the championship in 2013. Apart from this, Sri Lanka also won the championship in 2017 and 2018.
Won the final with just 18.1 points
The target of Afghanistan A was 134 runs, but the team achieved the target in just 18.1 overs after losing 3 wickets. The hero of Afghanistan’s victory was Sediqullah Atal, who scored 55 runs in 55 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six.
Seedikullah Attal is the only batsman in this tournament to score more than 50 runs in 5 consecutive games. When Afghanistan A came out to chase the target, the team got off to a very poor start. Zubaid Akbari quit without opening an account. However, after this team, captain Darvish Rasooli came on.
Sri Lanka’s top order completely collapsed
He along with Atal took the team’s score to 43 runs but he was dismissed by Hemantha for 24 runs. Thereafter, Karim Janat performed miracles, hitting 3 sixes and scoring 33 runs off 27 balls. However, Ishan Malinga dismissed him. Sedikula stood firm at the other end. The last wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Ishaq stood firm and led the team to victory.
In this match, Sri Lanka A team batted first and scored a total of 133 runs, losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. Sri Lanka A’s top order was completely disrupted, with the team losing 4 wickets for 15 runs. But thanks to 20, 64 and 23 runs from Pawan Ratnayake, Sahan Archige, Nimesh Vimukthi, the team ended up with 133 runs. For Afghanistan, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar took 2 wickets and Bilal Sami took 3 wickets.
