Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan 3rd T20 Match- In the ongoing series in Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team is extremely upset. Afghanistan team is losing first test match then ODI series and lastly T20 match too. The absence of international standard bowler Rashid Khan in the Afghanistan team was understood in the Sri Lankan series. His absence has led to a simultaneous decline in bowling leadership.
In the first T20 match they lost by just four runs, Afghanistan visitors thought that the Afghanistan team would come back in the game and keep the power of the match even but in the second T20 match too they lost to the Lankan forces by 72 runs.
It is now a matter of time for the Sri Lankan forces to whitewash the ODI series as well as the T20 series.
Afghanistan will want to win a T20 match for the team.
Wanindu Hasaranga, a leg-spinner from Sri Lanka, finished the previous match as the second-fastest bowler to reach 100 T20I wickets. When he shut out Najibullah Zadran for nine in the second Twenty20 International against Afghanistan in Dambulla, he accomplished the feat.
In last match Sadeera Samarawickrama top-scored with 51 off 42, while Angelo Mathews slammed 42* off 22. Hasaranga also chipped in with 22 off 9.
In last match Angelo Mathews , Benura Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga , Matheesha Pathirana took 2 wickets each. Maheesh Theekshana and Dasun Shanaka grabbed 1 wicket both.
In this T20 series against Afghanistan, Srilankan’s T20 captain Wanindu Hasaranga is doing all-round performance with bat and ball. He scored the most runs in this series with 89.
With 76 runs, Sadeera Samarawickrama is the second highest run scorer in this T20 series as a Lankan.
Matheesha Pathirana has taken six wickets in this T20 series, the most for Sri Lanka.
Karim Janat top scored for Afghanistan with 28 off 23 balls. Apart from Janat, Mohammad Nabi (27) was the only Afghanistan batsman to cross the 20-run mark.
In previous match Azmatullah Omarzai and Mohammad Nabi received 2 wickets each. Both Afghanistani bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi and Naveen-ul-Haq bagged 1 wicket.
Ibrahim Zadran scored the most runs for Afghanistan. His runs are 77 runs in two matches.
Fazalhaq Farooqi and Azmatullah Omarzai jointly bagge four wickets in the T20 series for Afghanistan.
Four of the previous five matches have been won by Sri Lanka, while one match ended in favor of Afghanistan.
Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan 3rd T20 Match, Pitch report –
Few people think of Dambulla when they think about big scores and large restrictions. When tossing the ball, the team with the higher run total will want to bat first. The batting surface at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium seems to be rather good. The bowlers will find it challenging to achieve their objective because the game is being played in the dark, even though the new ball hits off the bat wonderfully. The spinners could be called upon in the middle overs.
The pacers’ early swing and seam with the ball will cause problems for the pursuing team under the lights. The las match first innings scored of 187 runs and 2 nd innings scored 115 runs in Twenty20 match indicates that the pitch at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium is in the batsman’s favor.
SL vs AFG 3rd T20 Match Possible Playing 11 –
Sri Lanka Team :
Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (w), Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Angelo Mathews, Wanindu Hasaranga (c), Dasun Shanaka, Maheesh Theekshana, Binura Fernando, Matheesha Pathirana.
Afghanistan Team :
Ibrahim Zadran (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (w), Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Qais Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Naveen Ul Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
