Defending titleholders India face Sri Lanka in their alternate match of the Super Four henceforth to keep alive their objectives of playing in the tests of the Asia Cup. India’s expedient of playing in the final will be alive if they win this match. If they lose, India’s chances of playing in the tests will be largely over. And if they beat India, Sri Lanka will have one bottom in the final. Enjoy India vs Sri Lanka Asia Cup super 4 match.
The Super Four match of India vs Sri Lanka will start at 8 pm Bangladesh time. India gets the Super Four ticket as the swish team by winning two matches of the group stage. Team India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan and Hong Kong.
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Team India stumbles in their 1st match in the Super Four. Last night they lost by 5 structures to arch rival Pakistan. Virat Kohli’s half- century saw India score 181 runs for 7 structures in 20 overs. Kohli played an excellent innings of 60 runs off 44 balls.
In reply, nature Mohammad Rizwan’s brilliant four innings along with Mohammad Nawaz’s storming fur in the middle- order gave Pakistan a 5- gate defeat. Rizwan scored 71 off 51 balls whereas Nawaz scored 42 off 20 balls. Nawaz’s nice innings of 42 runs turned the match. In the end, Asif Ali played a part in Pakistan’s win by playing an innings of 16 runs from 8 balls, getting life in the hands of India’s Arshdeep Singh.
But Nawaz’s innings decided the match, Kohli said,’ Nawaz’s innings turned the match.However, nothing would have happened, If Nawaz had played an innings of 15- 20 runs. But he performed an innings of 42 runs. Such an innings is bound to have an effect on the match. Especially in such a tight match. The pressure created on us from his innings.
Still, Kohli believes that India will turn around in the coming match. He said,’ The team will turn around in the coming match. The India vs Sri Lanka match will not be easy. They got two great scores in the last two matches. Our match becomes much more important. We are not allowed to do anything other than winning.
India vs Sri Lanka Super 4 Match 3
On the other hand, Sri Lanka began the Asia Cup with a loss. The Lankans lost to Afghanistan by 8 structures in the opening match of the event. Still, Sri Lanka advanced to the Super Four with a dramatic 2- thing win against Bangladesh in the last match of the group stage. They touched the 184 runs that Bangladesh threw.
A confident Sri Lanka can also be seen in the Super Four. Lankans retaliated to their loss to Afghanistan in the group stage. Sri Lanka won by 4 structures after touching the Afghan target of 176 runs. Lankans are hopeless to continue their winning against India this time. The team’s leader Hasaranga de Silva said,” Winning the last two matches has boosted our team’s morale.” So we are confident of beatingpotentIndia.However, nothing is impossible to win, If you play your style.
India and Sri Lanka met together 25 times in T20 so far. India won 17 times out of this. Sri Lanka has won 7 times. 1 match abandoned. The two armies last met in a T20 last February. Sri Lanka whitewashed in the 3 match series on Indian soil.
still, India- Sri Lanka win- loss in Asia Cup is equal. India and Sri Lanka have won ten times out of 20 matches. India defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets in the T20 format in 2016.