Asia Cup: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets and hoped on the final

Abu Dhabi, September 24 (IANS). In the very important match of the Asia Cup Super-4, Pakistan maintained his hopes to defeat Sri Lanka by 5 wickets to make the final. Sri Lanka gave a target for 134 runs to win Pakistan in the match played in Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. Pakistan won the match by 5 wickets by scoring 138 runs with the loss of 5 wickets in 18 overs thanks to Hussain Talat’s unbeaten 32 and Mohammad Nawaz’s unbeaten 38 runs. Pakistan got a concrete start by Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman and shared a 45 -run partnership for the first wicket. After Farhan’s wicket fell, there were a line of wickets. The team lost their 5 wickets at 80. After this, Hussain Talat and Mohammad Nawaz took over the front and shared an unbeaten 58 run and Pakistan gave a 5 -wicket victory. With this victory, the hope of Pakistan is to play the Asia Cup final, so Sri Lanka’s expectations are over. Sri Lanka also lost in their last match against Bangladesh. Sri Lanka started batting first after losing the throw. The openers Nisanka and Kusal Mendis became the victim of Shaheen Afridi on a score of 8 and zeros respectively. Kusal Perera, who ended up at number three, became a victim of Haris Rauf by scoring 15 runs from 12 balls. At the same time, Captain Charith Asanka, who came at number four, was rejected for 20 runs from 19 balls. Former captain Shanaka was fired for zero. Hasranga scored 15 runs. Kamindu Mendis and Chamika Karunaratne shared a 43 -run partnership for the seventh wicket to reach the team’s score to 123. Kamindu Mendis recorded half a century. He was rejected by playing 50 runs off 44 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Chamika scored 17 runs from Karunaratne. Thanks to Mendis’s half -century, Sri Lanka was able to score 133 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Shaheen Afridi took 3 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. Hussain Talat took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 3 overs. Haris Rauf took 2 for 37 runs in 4 overs, Abrar Ahmed took 1 wicket for only 8 runs in 4 overs. -Ians bag shares this story tags