Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka by 4 wickets. The Super-4 stage of the Asia Cup has started with a very exciting win. In this match, the Sri Lankan team scored a score of 168 runs while playing first, which the Bangladesh team achieved the target in a thrilling manner in the last over. For Bangladesh, Tauheed Hriday played a match -winning innings, who scored 58 runs. With this exciting win over 6 -time Asia Cup champion Sri Lanka, Bangladesh has taken the first step towards the 2025 Asia Cup final.

Bangladesh’s decision to bowl first after winning the toss proved to be correct. The Bangladesh team, who came to chase the target of 169 runs, did not have a good start as Tanjid Hasan Tamim could not open the account. Captain Litton Das scored an important partnership of 59 runs with Saif Hasan, playing an innings of 23 runs in 16 balls.

After that Saif Hasan and Tauheed Hriday, while taking charge, took a 54 -run partnership and brought Bangladesh closer to victory. Hassan was dismissed for 61 runs in the 14th over. Right now the heart was standing at the crease and Bangladesh was expected to win with him. In the 19th over, Heart was also dismissed for 58 runs and from here the match was going to be exciting.

Only 5 runs were needed in the last over

In the last over, Bangladesh had to score only 5 runs to win and he had 6 wickets left in his hand. Dasun Shanaka came to the last over for Sri Lanka, who scored 64 runs with the bat. On the first ball of Shanaka, Zakir Ali surprised the score. Zakir Ali became clean bold on the next ball. The third ball was dot and Mehdi Hasan was also dismissed on the fourth ball. Bangladeshi batsmen could not get a run. On the fifth ball of the over, Nasum Ahmed ran as soon as he hit the ball, but the fielder could not hit the direct stump.

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Sri Lanka has scored 168 runs in the first match of the Asia Cup Super-4. The Sri Lankan team was invited to bat first after losing the toss in this match. Sri Lanka started well, but after that the wickets kept falling continuously. Especially Dasun Shanaka’s stormy batting tied Saman, who played a stormy innings of 64 runs in 37 balls.

In-form batsman Pathum Nisanka was dismissed by scoring just 22 runs in this match, but made a big contribution in getting his team a fast start. At the same time, the second opener Kusal Mendis scored 34 runs. Apart from him and Dasun Shanaka, no batsman could play a big innings. Captain Charith Asalanka scored 21 runs in 21 balls. For Bangladesh, Mustafizur Rahman took the most 3 wickets. Mehdi Hasan took 2 and Taskin Ahmed took one wicket.

Sometimes here and there

In this innings, the Sri Lankan team started fast and the team was scoring with a run-rate of 9 till the fourth over. Sri Lanka’s first wicket fell on a score of 44, but within the next 21 runs, Sri Lanka lost 3 wickets. The Bangladesh team was seen making a comeback, Kusal Perera and Dasun Shanaka made a small but important partnership of 32 runs in the middle overs to return to Sri Lanka’s match.

After that Dasun Shanaka and Charith Asalanka together added 57 runs in just 27 balls. Captain Asalanka played a rage of 21 runs in 12 balls. Looking at his partnership, it seemed that Sri Lanka could also go to the score of 175-180. But in the last 2 overs, the Bangladesh team returned to a great extent. Bangladesh bowlers conceded just 15 runs in the last 2 overs and also dismissed three batsmen of the opposing team.

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The first match of the Super-4 stage in the Asia Cup 2025 is being played between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In this match, Bangladesh won the toss and chose the first bowling. Actually, when the match was about to begin, 2 minutes of silence were kept. This silent was kept in memory of the heavenly father of Shilankai player Dunith Vellalage, who had passed away on Thursday.

Both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, keeping silence, expressed condolences to the father of Dunith Vellage. In this honor, they are playing against the Sri Lankan team by tying a black band on the arm. Vellalge is giving evidence of the country service by playing a super-4 match against Bangladesh even after the father’s death.

Dunith Vellalage returned to Sri Lanka

The 21 -year -old young player Dunith Vellalage immediately returned to his country as soon as he got the news of his father’s death, but he has now returned to the team. Veteran player Russell Arnold has also become convinced of the commitment of Vellalage’s national team. At the same time, fans also stood in the field and prayed for the peace of the departed soul.

Recently, a video also went viral, in which Vellalage is seen taking goodbye from his family members. Vellalage bowls spin with left hand and he returned to UAE this morning.

Mohammad Nabi was shocked

Dunith Vellalage is the same bowler, in whose over, Afghanistan player Mohammad Nabi hit 5 sixes. When Mohammad Nabi came to know about the death of Vellalage’s father after the end of the match, he was shocked. Sri Lanka won that match and confirmed the place in Super-4.

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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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Sri Lanka has started perfect in the Asia Cup tournament. The first match of the Sri Lankan team was with Bangladesh (SL vs Ban Asia Cup), in which its bowlers did not give any run in the first 2 overs. Throwing a maiden over for a bowler in T20 is a big challenge in itself, but the team throw 2 maiden overs continuously, then wow! Wow! It is made. This feat has been done by Nuwan Tushara and Hostel Chamera of Sri Lanka. In fact, there are a total of 6 bowlers in T20 Asia Cup history so far, who have taken wickets in the powerplay overs as well as taking wickets.

Two overs, zero runs and 2 wickets

Tanjid Hasan Tamim and Parvez Hussain Imon started the innings for Bangladesh team. Nuwan came to over the first over, who is known for action like his Lasith Malinga. In front of Tushara, Tanjid Hasan continued to beat and became clean bold on the last ball of the first over. No run came in this over.

The second over came to Hostel Chamera, in front of whom Parvez Hussain was. There was no run on the first 3 balls and on the fourth ball, the ball took the edge of Parvez’s bat and turned to the hands of Kusal Mendis. Mendis made no mistake in catching the catch. The second over was also Medan. Bangladesh could not score any runs in the first 2 overs and lost two wickets.

This has happened 6 times in Asia Cup history

In the T20 Asia Cup history, only 6 bowlers have been able to take wickets along with the maiden over in the powerplay overs. The first bowler to do so was Mohammad Aamir of Pakistan, who did this against the UAE in 2016. In the same year, in the match against UAE, Bhuvneshwar Kumar of India also took wickets while doing a maiden over. Shahnawaz Dahni of Pakistan, Atik Iqbal of Hong Kong and now Sri Lanka’s enmity Chamera and Nuwan Tushara have done this.

Bowler who took wicket with Medan in powerplay overs (T20 Asia Cup)

• Mohammad Aamir – 2016 (vs UAE)
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 2016 (vs UAE)
• Shahnawaz Dahani – 2022 (vs Hong Kong)
• Atik Iqbal – 2025 (vs Afghanistan)
• Nuwan Tushara – 2025 (vs Bangladesh)
• Hostel Chamera – 2025 (vs Bangladesh)

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Due to Maheedi Hasan’s historic spell, Bangladesh cricket team stopped Sri Lanka for 132 runs. Chasing the target, Bangladesh won in 16.3 overs. Tanjid Hasan played an unbeaten innings of 73 runs. With this victory, Bangladesh won the series 2–1. Litton Das was voted the best player of the series.

Maheedi Hasan broke Harbhajan Singh’s record

The first match of the 3 -match series was won by hosts Sri Lanka. In the second match, Bangladesh won a big win of 83 runs. The final match of the series was played on Wednesday. Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first. After falling 5 wickets at 66, Dasun Shanaka played an important innings of 35 and Kamindu Mendis for Sri Lanka to take Sri Lanka to a respectable score of 132 runs.

Maheedi Hasan put a historic spell and broke a record of Harbhajan Singh. He took 4 wickets for 11 runs in 4 overs, this is the best spell of a visiting player at Premdasa Stadium. Earlier this record was in the name of Harbhajan Singh, who took 4 wickets for 12 runs in 4 overs against England in the T20 World Cup in 2012.

Smiles, Pride, and a Piece of History!
Bangladesh team poses with the trophy after clinching their first-Eve T20i Series Victory on Sri Lankan Soil.#BCB , #Bangladeshcrick #T20i pic.twitter.com/aqjugghqnp

– Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBTigers) July 16, 2025

Bangladesh created history

Bangladesh did not start well, chasing the target of 133 runs, Pervez Hosain (0) was out on the very first ball, but after that Tanjid Hasan (73) and captain Litan Das (32) shared a significant partnership, both shared 74 runs. Tanjid Hasan scored an unbeaten 73, played 6 sixes and 1 four in this innings played in 47 balls.

Bangladesh won the decisive match by 8 wickets and won the series 2–1, this is Bangladesh’s first T20 series against Sri Lanka. Maheedi Hasan was chosen as the match and Litton Das was chosen as the best player of the series.

There has been a big upset in T20 International cricket. Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka 2–1 in the three-match T20 series. For the first time, Bangladesh team has won the T20 series from Sri Lanka. The third and decisive T20 was played between the two teams in Colombo on Wednesday, which was easily won by Bangladesh.

In the third T20, Sri Lanka scored only 132 runs after playing first. In response, Bangladesh chased the target in 16.3 overs. Bangladesh named the series 2–1. Bangladesh celebrated fiercely to win the first T20 series from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won the first match of the three -match T20 series. After this, both T20 Bangladesh won and won the series 2–1.

The story of the entire match is like this

Sri Lanka did not have a good start to bat first. Kusal Mendis 06, Kusal Perera 00, Dinesh Chandimal 04 and captain Charith Asalanka were dismissed for 03 runs. Opener Pathum Nisanka was scoring fast from one side, but he too was dismissed for 46 runs in 39 balls. He hit four fours during this time. Kamindu Mendis 21 and Dasun Shanaka 25 balls unbeaten 35 runs to reach Sri Lanka’s score 130.

Bangladesh, who chased the target of 133 runs, did not have a good start. Opener Parvez Hasan Eman was dismissed on Zero. It felt that Sri Lanka would make the match exciting, but Tanjid Hasan Tamim turned the Sri Lankan plans. Captain Litton Das scored 32 runs in 26 balls. 2 fours and a six came from his bat. At the same time, Tanjid Hasan returned unbeaten for 73 runs after winning the match. He hit a four and 6 sixes. Together Tauheed Hrdoy also returned unbeaten for 27 runs. Tauheed hit a four and a six in his innings.

Sri lanka spinner hasranga: After the ODI series between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, now the T20 series is going to start. But Sri Lanka has suffered a major setback even before the start of this series. Sri Lankan spin bowler Vanindu Hasranga is out of the team. He had to be eliminated from the T20 series due to Hasranga’s injury. This information has been given by the team captain Charith Asanka himself.

Hasranga out of T20 series

He has to be eliminated from the T20 series due to Hamstring in the straight leg of Vanindu Hasranga. Hasranga was injured while batting in the last ODI against Bangladesh. On being out of the team of Hasranga, the Sri Lankan captain said that this is a big loss for us. He is our superstar in white-ball cricket.

Setback for Sri Lanka as Wanindu Hasaranaga is sidelined for the bangladesh t20i series due to injury

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– ICC (@ICC) July 9, 2025

Sri Lanka’s victory in ODI series

A three -match ODI series was played between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The first two matches of this series were played in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. At the same time, the last match took place in the suburb of Pallekele. In the first ODI, Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 77 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the series. In the second ODI, Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka by 16 runs and equaled 1-1 in the series. Now both teams were required to win the third ODI to win the series.

In the last ODI, the host team Sri Lanka won and defeated Bangladesh by 99 runs. With this victory, Sri Lanka also won the series 2–1. In this series, Sri Lankan star bowler Hasranga took 2 wickets in the first match, 3 wickets in the second match and 2 wickets in the last match. In this way Hasranga took a total of seven wickets in Bangladesh in the ODI series.

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Sl vs ban: On Tuesday, a decisive ODI match was played between the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Bangladesh cricket team, in which the host Sri Lanka was completely dominated. Kusal Mendis scored a century in this match played at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, he scored a brilliant innings of 124 runs. Batting first, the hosts scored 285 runs. Chasing the target, Bangladesh had to face a shameful defeat.

Sri Lankan captain Charith Asanka won the toss and decided to bat first. Kusal Mendis scored 124 runs in 114 balls with the help of 18 fours. Captain Asalanka scored 58 runs in 68 balls with the help of 9 fours. Batting first, Sri Lanka gave Bangladesh a target of 286 runs. Please tell that there was not a single six in Sri Lanka’s entire innings.

Bangladesh piled on 186 runs

The visiting team collapsed for 186 runs in the third ODI. For Bangladesh, Tauheed Hirdoy scored the highest innings of 51 runs. Asitha Fernando and Dushmanta Chamera took 3-3 wickets. Dunith Vellalage and Vanindu Hasranga took 2-2 wickets. In the entire match, it never felt that Bangaldesh can win the match.

Kusal Mendis Player of the Match and Series

Sri Lanka won the 3-match ODI series 2–1 after winning the decisive match. The first match of the series was won by Sri Lanka, by winning the second ODI, Bangladesh did the series equal. Mendis was adjudged the best player and player of the series in the deciding match. He scored 45 and 56 runs respectively in both the matches.

Series Winners! Sri Lanka takes the 3rd odi by a dominant 99 runs, second the series 2-1 against Bangladesh!
Incredible Efort from The Whole Squad to Seal The Victory! #SLVBAN #Srilankacrick pic.twitter.com/jd2bqx35m0

– Sri Lanka Cricket (@OFFCIALC) July 8, 2025

Sri Lanka also won the 2 -match Test series before the ODI series. The first Test ended at the draw and the second Test was won by Sri Lanka by 78 runs and an innings. Now a 3 -match T20 series will be played between the two. The first match will be played on 10 July at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium.