{"id":86689,"date":"2025-09-23T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=86689"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:49:56","slug":"pakistan-beats-sri-lanka-to-stay-in-asia-cup-final-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-beats-sri-lanka-to-stay-in-asia-cup-final-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to stay in Asia Cup final race"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABU DHABI: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka in the Super 4 stage of the Asia Cup T20<\/a> tournament and gained 2 important points.<\/p>\n

Pakistan achieved Sri Lanka’s target of 134 runs in 18 overs for the loss of 5 wickets.<\/p>\n

Pakistan and Sri Lanka faced each other in the Super 4 stage of the Asia Cup today in Abu Dhabi. Where Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha won the toss and invited Sri Lanka to bat first.<\/p>\n

Pakistan made no changes to its team for today’s match. Only the players who played the match against India were part of the playing eleven.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka scored 133 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Kamindu Mendis stood out by scoring 50 runs.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka’s innings<\/h3>\n

Pakistan made a brilliant start and dismissed half of the Sri Lankan team for 58 runs. In such a situation, Kamindu Mendis batted responsibly and scored 50 runs.<\/p>\n

For Sri Lanka, Pathan Nishanka scored 8, Kaushal Mendis 0, Perera 15, Asalanka 20, Hasaranka 15 were out while Karunaratne was not out with 17 runs.<\/p>\n

Thus, Sri Lanka scored 133 runs against Pakistan for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.<\/p>\n

For Pakistan, Shaheen Afridi took 3 wickets, Haris Rauf and Hussain Talat took 2 wickets each. Abrar Ahmed dismissed one player.<\/p>\n

Pakistan’s innings<\/h3>\n

In pursuit of the target, the Green Shirts faced difficulties initially, 5 players returned to the pavilion with a combined score of 80 runs.<\/p>\n

Sahibzada Farhan 24, Fakhar Zaman 47, Saim Ayub 2 and captain Salman Ali Agha 5 runs, Muhammad Haris was out for 13 runs.<\/p>\n

In such a situation, Muhammad Nawaz and Hussain Talat batted responsibly and gave Pakistan an important win and kept their hopes of reaching the final alive.<\/p>\n

Muhammad Nawaz played an unbeaten innings of 38 and Hussain Talat 32 runs to give Pakistan the win.<\/p>\n

Points table situation<\/h3>\n

The top 2 teams of the Super 4 stage have to qualify for the final. Each team has to play 3 matches.<\/p>\n

Looking at the points table, India is in first place with 2 points after playing one match, while Bangladesh is in second position with 2 points after winning one match.<\/p>\n

Pakistan is in third place with 2 points after winning one of the 2 matches, while Sri Lanka is in last position after losing 2 consecutive matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABU DHABI: Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka in the Super 4 stage of the Asia Cup T20 tournament and gained 2 important points. Pakistan achieved Sri Lanka’s target of 134 runs in 18 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. Pakistan and Sri Lanka faced each other in the Super 4 stage of the Asia Cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":86690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28845],"class_list":["post-86689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asia-cup-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86691,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86689\/revisions\/86691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}