Afghanistan Vs Sri Lanka, Asia Cup Final: Afghanistan cricket team has made history. This achievement has not been achieved by the senior team but by the A team. The Afghanistan A team won the title of the ACC Emerging Asia Cup. He has won this title for the first time. Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka A team by 7 wickets in the final. Afghanistan had defeated India A in the semi-finals. While Sri Lanka A defeated Pakistan A in semi-final 1.
Let us tell you that Pakistan team had won the title in 2023. Then Indian A team came second. While the Indian team won the 2013 title. Apart from these, Sri Lanka won the 2017 and 2018 title.
Won the final in just 18.1 overs
Afghanistan A team had a target of 134 runs but the team achieved this target in 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.
Sediqullah Atal is the only batsman to have scored 50+ in 5 consecutive matches in this tournament. When the Afghanistan A team went out to chase the objective, the team got off to a very bad start. Zubaid Akbari was left out without opening the account. However, after this, team captain Darvish Rasooli arrived at the area.
Sri Lanka A top flight completely disintegrated
Along with Atal, he took the team’s score to 43 runs but was then dismissed by Hemantha for 24 runs. After this, Karim Janat did wonders and hit 3 sixes and scored 33 runs in 27 balls. However, Ishan Malinga sacked him. Sediqullah stood his ground at the other end. Batsman Mohammad Ishaq, who came last, stood tall and led the team to victory.
In the match, Sri Lanka A batted first and scored a total of 133 runs, losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. Sri Lanka A’s top order completely disintegrated and the team lost 4 wickets in 15 runs. But thanks to the 20, 64 and 23 runs of Pawan Ratnayake, Sahan Archige, Nimesh Vimukthi, the team managed to score 133 runs. For Afghanistan, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar took 2 wickets and Bilal Sami took 3 wickets.
