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Sri Lanka (171/4) defeat Afghanistan (169/8) by 6 wickets to eliminate them from the Asia Cup 2025

The way Kusal Mendis should be a blueprint to pak players on how to play afghan spinners.

sweep, use your feet to put their lines and lenghts under pressure. unsettle them, and take advantage. He makes it look so easy
 
5 wides and now an error in judgement for a catch which went to 4. Afghanistan is making mistakes and SL are now on top
 
SL should knock out AFG now when they can instead of giving them another chance in the super 4s
 
They don't have the rat race or dog eats dog mentality that's why, having low population that too educated one helps. Their fertility rate is also going below irreplaceable levels.
Yeah a one week SL trip is on my itinerary atleast once a year. People are chill and humble. Usually go to Weligama for a few days in the off season, the maybe Kandy and a day in Colombo usually. Can't beat the 3 Euro happy hour massages. Think will go in Feb next year if I get tikuts for the WC.
 
India gets most competition from Bangladesh atleast when playing in BD, Afghans gave us good competition once..Need some close games to see who can take us across the line if they can.
 
Yeah a one week SL trip is on my itinerary atleast once a year. People are chill and humble. Usually go to Weligama for a few days in the off season, the maybe Kandy and a day in Colombo usually. Can't beat the 3 Euro happy hour massages. Think will go in Feb next year if I get tikuts for the WC.

yeah very good value for money lanka is
except ministry of crab...
 
Either way I don’t think Perera would have attempted that sweep if the fielder was on the boundary

He went for it knowing the fielder was off it 10 yards
 
Been found out

It’s pretty clear he only drifts in
He has definitely regressed too. Batters knew what he was doing before aswell but he was still very tough to get away. Might be a combination of injuries and his real age catching up to him.
 
He has definitely regressed too. Batters knew what he was doing before aswell but he was still very tough to get away. Might be a combination of injuries and his real age catching up to him.

Guy was elite in terms of accuracy in years gone by. Maybe he isn't getting the overspin and the dip that he used to before his neck/shoulder problems.


Axar bowls with that level of accuracy nowadays.
 
Guy was elite in terms of accuracy in years gone by. Maybe he isn't getting the overspin and the dip that he used to before his neck/shoulder problems.


Axar bowls with that level of accuracy nowadays.
Yup that's the only thing I can think of because he had a couple of major injuries.

I really like these types of bowlers in white-ball. Axar Patel...Imad for a long period of time was elite in T20 playing a very similar role. Nasum the other day bowled a very similar type of spell to these guys and opened the bowling too.
 
It's still in the best interest of Sri Lanka to win this game because they would rather face Bangladesh than Afghanistan in Super Fours.
 
Great batting by Sri Lanka so far but with them you always feels like they are a few balls away from a collapse
 
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