Asia Cup: Sri Lanka performed brilliantly in bowling
In the ongoing Asia Cup 2025 in UAE, the fifth match was played between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka today on 13 September, Saturday. Let us tell you that in this match, Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets on the basis of excellent bowling and then brilliant batting. Sri Lanka has started the tournament with a win.
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First, bowling brilliantly, Sri Lanka stopped Bangladesh at just 139 runs and then achieved this target very easily by losing only four wickets in 14.4 overs. For Sri Lanka, opener Pathum Nisanka played a brilliant innings of 50 runs.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, status of the 5th match of Asia Cup
If we give you information about the match, then Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl. After this, Bangladesh’s start was not very special. The team lost two wickets without scoring any runs, then Bangladesh lost three wickets till the score of 11 runs. After this, when captain Liton Das was dismissed after scoring 28 runs in the 10th over, the team’s score became five wickets for 53 runs.
Sri Lanka are up & running on the points table! ✌️
— AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) September 13, 2025
A brilliant day at the office for 🇱🇰 who dominated proceedings, never letting their opponents in the game with bat or ball.#BANvSL #DPWorldAsiaCup2025 #ACC pic.twitter.com/IypekPciRm
But in the end, Zaker Ali scored 41* and Shamim Hussain scored 42* for Bangladesh and helped his team reach a respectable score. On the other hand, talking about Sri Lanka’s bowling, Wanindu Hasaranga got 2 and Nuwan Tushara and Dusmantha Chameera got one wicket each.
After this, when Sri Lanka came out to chase the easy target of 140 runs given by Bangladesh, it easily achieved this target by losing only 4 wickets in 14.4 overs. For Sri Lanka, opener Pathum Nisanka played an innings of 50 runs, while Kamil Misara remained unbeaten after scoring 46*. For Bangladesh, Mehdi Hasan took 2 wickets and Mustafizur Rahman and Tanjim Hasan Sakib got one wicket each.
