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Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 23 runs in the Asia Cup final at Dubai Intern🐻ational Cricket Stadium on Sunday to claim their sixth title.
Put to bat first, Sri Lanka were in deep trouble, losing their five wickets for just 58 before Bhanuka Rajapaksa rescued his side. Rajapaksa ꦏplayed a top knock of 71 runs from just 45 deliveries to 𓂃inspire the Lankans to post a target of 171.
Apart from the left-handed batter, Hasaranga also played a quick knock of 36 runs off 21 balls. For Pakistan, Haris Rauf took three wickets, while Shadab Khan, Naseem Shah, and Iftikhar Ahmed took one scalp each.
In the chase of 171, Pakistan couldn’t manage to form a decent partnership and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan smashed 55 off 49 balls wꦏith the help of five boundaries, but he didn’t get any support from other batters as the Men in Green were bundled out for 147, losing the grand 💛finale by 23 runs.
A four-wicket haul by Pramod Madushan and a three-wicket over by Wanindu Hasaranga was the eye-catching performances from Sri Lanka while defending 170. Chamika Karunaratne and Maheesh Theekshana scalped two and one wickets, respectively.
Asia Cup titles:
- 7 India
- 6 Sri Lanka *
- 2 Pakistan
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Take a bow, Sri Lanka! 🙌 🙌
Men's Champions for the 6️⃣th time! 🏆
— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC)
Sri Lanka 𝐖𝐈𝐍 the 🏆
Scorecard:
— ICC (@ICC)
Despite the turm🌞oil on and off the field,the side has shown immense character by winning the .Congratulations
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
From losing vs Afဣg to winning the As🐻ia Cup, well played 👏🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
A tournament that started with a thrashing at the hands of Afghanistan ends in a cracking style 𒁃for Sri Lanka.
Absolute team work! | | |
&mꦐdash; 🏏Flashscore Cricket Commentators (@FlashCric)
An excellent and thoroughly enjoyable tournament. The 2 best teams🉐 made it to the final and Sri💫 Lanka were deserving winners
— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket)
Pakistan have been bowled out thrice under 150 and were nine down in another in this Asia Cup. What is interesting is they were not blown away in Powerplay in any of these games.
Their𝐆 10-over scores in these matches were 68/2, 52/3, 66/2 & 68/2.— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)
The fielding tod🐻ay has been spectacular beyond imagination for anyone who watched SL field from circa 2015-2020.
Pakistan not a bad fielding side, but 🙈Sri Lanka have made the difference between them seem like a gulf.
— Andrew Fidel Fernando (@afidelf)
Kings and Queens of Asia! What a day!
— Estelle Vasudevan (@Estelle_Vasude1)
Not Pakistan's fault. They were on the wrong side of law of averages in terms of winning tosses and winning games.
— cricBC (@cricBC)
Sri Lanka started the Asia Cup 2022 by losing to Afghanistan and 2 weeks later they won the Asia Cup 2022 – Take a bow, Sri Lanka.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Sri Lanka – The New Asia Cup Champions
— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom)
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Congratulations for winning the Asia Cup. |
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB)
Congratulations to Sri Lanka – the new Asia Cup champions!!!
Outstanding performance!!
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA)
You’ve ma🌼de these two and your🌳 entire nation proud. Congratulations, 🇱🇰🏆
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
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