betvisa cricketTwitter reactions: Clinical Sri Lanka beat Pakistan to clinch 6th Asia Cup title

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Here is how Twitter reacted

Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 23 runs in the Asia Cup final at Dub💙ai Int📖ernational 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 played a top knock of 71 runs from just 45 de𒀰liveries to inspire 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 sm🀅ashed 55 off 49 balls with the help of five bouꦿndaries, 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 turmoil on and off th🍎e field,the side has sho♔wn immense character by winning the .Congratulations
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)

From losing vs Afg to winning the Asi🧔a Cup, well played 👏🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)

A tournament that started with a thrashing at the hands of Afghanistan ends in a crackin♊g style for Sri Lanka.
Absolute team work! | | |
— 🏏Flashscore Cricket (@FlashCric)

An excellent and thoroughly enjoyable tournament. The ꧑2 best te💙ams 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.
Their 10-over scores in these matches were 68/2, 52/3, 66/2൲ & 68/2.
— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)

The fielding today has been spectacular beyond imaꦇgination for anyone who watched SL field from circa 2015-2020.
Pakistan not a bad fielding side, but Sri Lanka have made the difference betwe🐷en 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)