Hasaranga & Dhananjaya keep Sri Lanka afloat

A strong, unbeaten 50 years from Dhananjaya de Silva after Wanindu Hasaranga's three-fer assisted Sri Lanka to an agreeable five-wicket with winning that likewise finished Afghanistan's Reality Cup crusade. Afghanistan had brief spells of control in the low-scoring apparatus however Sri Lanka in the end won to get their second success in the Very 12.

Afghanistan's Windy beginning

Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Usman Ghani made a large portion of Sri Lanka' failing lengths in the PowerPlay stage with a blustery, stroke-filled start to the innings after Mohammad Nabi selected to bat first. Gurbaz was the early attacker between the two openers as Afghanistan got to 42 for 0 out of 6 overs.

The pendulum of control

Gurbaz began as he's finished in his last two trips against Sri Lanka yet fell just after the PowerPlay when Lahiru Kumara got a full ball to tail in and thump back his stumps. Ghani and Ibrahim Zadran conveyed the innings forward in a bid to hold control of the procedures yet in came Wanindu Hasaranga to fox the opener with a googly and Ghani got bulldozed, confounding a trudge clear to Dasun Shanaka. Ibrahim Zadran, who also got to his 20s was excused in the thirteenth over to turn into Kumara's second wicket of the game.

The pattern went on with Najibullah Zadran, Gulbadin Naib and Mohammad Nabi as each of the three got begins yet were given the boot not long from now. The control of the game wavered between the different sides generally through before Sri Lanka got a solid hold on it to deny Afghanistan a dramatic finale. A 12-run seventeenth over off Kasun Rajitha planted the seeds of a potential late prosper however Maheesh Theekshana and Hasaranga stopped it from ever really developing. Hasaranga wrapped up with outstanding figures of 3 for 13. Only 19 runs fell off the last three overs, leaving Afghanistan on 144 for 8.

Afghanistan's vivacious start with the ball

Their batting all out may have been under-standard however the bowlers came out looking bullish about safeguarding it. The outcome was a mixing PowerPlay where they nailed the Sri Lanka players to the backfoot. Fazalhaq Farooqi did what the Sri Lankan quicks couldn't right off the bat - stirring things up around town length reliably and bowling significantly straighter to smother the stroke-production.

Mujeeb Ur-Rahman turned the screws further with a ripper of a carrom ball that Pathum Nissanka essentially didn't peruse and was settled before the ball hit the off-stump in only the second finished. Sri Lanka limped to 28 for 1 out of 6 overs. Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis hoped to hurry up with a 16-run seventh over off Fareed Ahmad. Mohammad Nabi promptly went to his expert spinner Rashid Khan and the leggie struck immediately, getting Kusal Medis to top-edge a breadth endeavor, which Gurbaz gathered after a touch of miscommunication with an approaching defender. Sri Lanka stalled to 63 for 2 out of 10 overs.

The three-over circle back

Rashid Khan exchanged closes for the eleventh over and it set off Sri Lanka's chance around. The leggie bowled to one side gave Dhananjaya with the more limited leg side limit and got rebuffed. Dhananjaya had the rub of the green at first when his endeavored clear went to the fine leg wall off an inside edge however he then associated on the following trudge clear and cleared the profound midwicket wall. In the wake of taking 14 out that over, Dhananjaya helped take 12 out the following over against Nabi - including a six down the ground. Azmatullah Omarzai then, at that point, yielded 10 races to bring the condition down from 82 off 60 to 46 off 42.

Dhananjaya assumes command

However Rashid excused Asalanka in the expectation for one more flip of the account, Dhananjaya assumed command over the pursuit to put Sri Lanka on course. New hitter Bhanuka Rajapaksa assisted the reason with two fours off Gulbadin Naib in the fifteenth over. The pair played out Rashid's last over in the sixteenth prior to restricting the condition in the accompanying overs. With consecutive fours off Mujeeb in the eighteenth over, Dhananjaya raised his 50 years. In the nineteenth, he hit the 6th four of his innings to finish the pursuit.

Brief Scores: Afghanistan 144/8 in 20 overs (Rahmanullah Gurbaz 28, Usman Ghani 27; Wanindu Hasaranga 3-13, Lahiru Kumara 2-30) lost to Sri Lanka 148/4 in 18.3 overs (Dhananjaya de Silva 66*, Kusal Medis 25; Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2-24, Rashid Khan 2-31) by 5 wickets