In the second match played between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup today, Srilaka’s team registered a resounding victory by defeating Bangladesh by 5 wickets. With this victory, Sri Lanka has reached the top of the points table, while the same Bangladesh team has reached the bottom. In this match, Bangladesh team may have been successful in winning the toss, but from the beginning till the end of this match, Bangladesh team looked far behind Sri Lanka in every field. The entire Bangladesh team was all out for 164 runs. Nazmul Hussain Shanto scored the highest 89 runs for Bangladesh team. Except him, no batsman failed to score more than 20 runs.
During this match, some such actions were also seen from Bangladesh side, which put the spirit of sports to shame. In fact, the players of Bangladesh team, forced by their habit of fighting, clashed with Sri Lankan players even today. Not only this, the drama of wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh team of not out after getting out was a big dramatic scene of this match. From Sri Lanka’s side, young fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana spent a total of 32 runs in 7.4 overs and took four important wickets of the opposing team and completely pushed the players of Bangladesh team on the back foot.
The beginning of the Sri Lankan team, which came out to play in response to the target of 165 runs, was also nothing special and the team had lost its first 3 important wickets for just 43 runs. In such a situation, the pair of Sadira Samarawickrama and Charith Asalanka took charge of the Sri Lankan team, who snatched the match from Bangladesh and put it in Sri Lanka’s lap by playing brilliant half-century innings. The Sri Lankan team not only won this match but also broke the pride of Bangladesh on the basis of which Bangladesh was trying to dominate Sri Lanka. After this match, there was complete silence in the Bangladeshi camp.
The reason for which is that Bangladesh fans know very well that with this defeat, the danger of Bangladesh being out of the tournament has increased further. If India succeeds in winning the match between India and Pakistan on September 2, then the situation in Group One will be almost clear. In such a situation, Pakistan and India will enter the top four from Group One. Whereas if Afghanistan is successful in registering victory in the Bangladesh vs Afghanistan match to be played from Group 2 to 3 September, then Sri Lanka and Afghanistan from Group 2 can make it to the top four. Even if Afghanistan loses this match, Afghanistan will still have a chance to defeat Sri Lanka.
Even if he succeeds in winning this opportunity, Bangladesh will be out of the tournament. Talking about the same top 4, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are expected to reach more. In these four teams, the names of India and Pakistan are included in the teams which are showing more chances of reaching the finals. However, looking at the performance of Pakistan in the first match, it is believed that Pakistan can easily enter the finals. At the same time, depending on the Indian performance in the India-Pakistan match to be held on September 2, which team between India and Sri Lanka will be able to make it to the final.
