{"id":146361,"date":"2025-09-19T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:12:07","slug":"asia-cup-2025-sri-lanka-eliminate-afghanistan-as-bangladesh-also-go-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146361\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: Sri Lanka eliminate Afghanistan as Bangladesh also go through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan to qualify for the Asia Cup Super Four stage, eliminating their opponents in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Kusal Mendis steered Sri Lanka to the six-wicket victory with a perfectly-paced 74 off 52 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s victory also ensured Bangladesh join them in the next stage, alongside Group A qualifiers India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afghanistan looked to have recovered well after slipping to 79-6 in the 13th over, with Mohammad Nabi smashing 60 off 22 balls, including five consecutive sixes off the first five balls of the 20th over bowled by Dunith Wellalage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nabi was run out going for a second run off the final ball of the innings but his lusty blows dragged Afghanistan to a respectable 169-8, Nuwan Thushara finishing with 4-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sri Lanka only needed 101 to ensure they qualified via net run-rate regardless of the result but they surged to victory with eight balls remaining &#8211; Kamindu Mendis striking two sixes in a 13-ball cameo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group stage concludes with India facing already-eliminated Oman on Friday before Sri Lanka open the Super Four round of matches against Bangladesh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India and Pakistan face each other in Dubai on Sunday. The final is on 28 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan to qualify for the Asia Cup Super Four stage, eliminating their opponents in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-146361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}