Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 6 wickets. This is Sri Lanka’s first win in the Asia Cup 2025, on the other hand, with this defeat, the path of Super-4 has become difficult for Bangladesh. In this match, the Bangladesh team was successful in scoring 139 runs, staggering. In response, 6 -time Asia Cup champion Sri Lanka achieved this target with 32 balls remaining. Bangladesh made a comeback, but that return did not work.

Bangladesh team could not recover after the initial shaking in batting. The first 2 overs of his innings were, in which Nuwan Tushara and Hostel Chamera took one wicket each while doing a maiden over. Bangladesh scored 2 wickets without scoring 2 overs. Captain Litton Das stayed at the crease for some time, but he also continued for 28 runs. Half of Bangladesh’s team had returned to the pavilion for a score of 53. It is good for Jakir Ali and Shamim Hussain’s 86 -run partnership, which led to the score of 139 Bangladesh.

Bangladesh returns late

Sri Lanka started to chase a target of 140 runs, Sri Lanka did not start well because Kusal Mendis was dismissed for just 3 runs. After that, the 95 -run partnership of Pathum Nisanka and Kamil Mishara had fixed Sri Lanka’s victory to a great extent. Nisanka scored 50 runs. Kusal Perera could not stay at the crease for long. Dasun Shanaka also came and was dismissed after scoring 1 run.

At one time Sri Lanka scored 108 runs at the loss of one wicket. He had to score only 32 runs in 58 balls to win. From here, Sri Lanka lost 3 wickets within just 17 balls. The Bangladesh team was making a comeback with one wicket each, but by then Sri Lanka had come very close to victory.

The path of super-4 is difficult

Group B has now become exciting. Afghanistan (+4.700) and Sri Lanka (+2.595) sits at the first two places in Group B with good net run-rate. Both of them have two points, Bangladesh also has 2 points but its net is of run-rate-0.650. Bangladesh now has only one match left, even if it wins, it will have to depend on other teams to go to Super-4.

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