Sri Lanka beats Afghanistan by a big margin of 132 runs in 2nd ODI Match of the Afghanistan tour of Sri Lanka, 2023.
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The 2nd ODI Match of the Afghanistan tour of Sri Lanka, 2023 was played today between Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota. In which Sri Lanka beats Afghanistan by a big margin of 132 runs.
Sri Lanka batted first after winning the toss, started the inning very strongly, Pathum Nissanka and Dimuth Karunaratne came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a half-century partnership of 82 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has dismissed for 82 runs in 15.5 over, Pathum Nissanka dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 43 runs with the help of 6 boundaires in 56 balls, next batsman Kusal Mendis came to bat and handled the inning with Dimuth Karunaratne, the second wicket has dismissed for 110 runs in 22.3 over, Dimuth Karunaratne dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 52 runs with the help of 7 boundaries in just 62 balls, next batsman Sadeera Samarawickrama came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 88 runs with Kusal Mendis, the third wicket has dismissed for 198 runs in 36.5 over, Sadeera Samarawickrama dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 44 runs with the help of 5 boundaires in 46 balls, followed by Charith Asalanka came to bat and he dismissed just for 6 runs in 12 balls as fourth wicket in 39.5 over, the team score was 213 runs, next batsman Dhananjaya de Silva came to bat and played well with Kusal Mendis, the fifth wicket has dismissed for 254 runs in 43.4 over, Kusal Mendis dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 78 runs with the help of 1 six and 7 boundaries in just 75 balls, next batsman Dasun Shanaka came to bat and played well with Dhananjaya de Silva, the sixth wicket has dismissed for 288 runs in first ball of the 48th over, Dasun Shanaka dismissed after playing a quick inning of 23 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in just 13 balls, next batsman Wanindu Hasaranga came to bat and played quick unbeaten inning of 29 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in just 12 balls with Dhananjaya de Silva, and Dhananjaya de Silva also played an unbeaten inning of 29 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 24 balls. In this way, Sri Lanka scored 323 runs after losing 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and set a very strong target of 324 runs in front of Afghanistan.
Afghanistani bowlers Mohammad Nabi took 2 wickets for 52 runs, Fareed Ahmad 2 wickets for 61 runs in 9 overs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 1 wicket for 39 runs, and Noor Ahmad 1 wicket for 70 runs in 9 overs.
Afghanistan chasing 324 runs in the second inning, and the entire team was dismissed just for 191 runs in the first ball of the 43rd over. Afghanistan started the inning not very well, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran came to start the inning, the first wicket has dismissed just for 11 runs in 3.2 over, Rahmanullah Gurbaz dismissed just for 2 runs in 12 balls, next batsman Rahmat Shah came to bat handled the inning and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 51 runs with Ibrahim Zadran, the second wicket has dismissed for 62 runs in 15.4 over, Rahmat Shah dismissed after scoring 36 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in just 42 balls, followed by Hashmatullah Shahid came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 84 runs with Ibrahim Zadran, the third wicket has dismissed for 146 runs in 30.3 over, Ibrahim Zadran dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 54 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 2 boundaries in 75 balls, next batsman Najibullah Zadran came to bat and he dismissed just for 2 runs in 8 balls as fourth ball of the 32.5 overs, the team score was 157 runs, next batsman Mohammad Nabi came to bat and he also dismissed just for 2 runs in 5 balls as fifth wicket in 33.5 over, the team score was 160 runs, next batsman Azmatullah Omarzai came to bat, meanwhile the sixth wicket also dismissed for 160 runs in first ball of the 35th over, Hashmatullah Shahid dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 57 runs with the help of 6 boundaires in 62 balls, followed by Noor Ahmad came to bat and he dismissed just for 3 runs in 7 balls as seventh wicket in first ball of the 38th over, the team score was 169 runs, next batsman Mujeeb Ur Rahman came to bat and he dismissed without scoring in 2 balls as 8th wicket in 37.3 over, the team score was 169 runs, next batsman Fareed Ahmad Malik came to bat and he also dismissed without scoring in 5 balls as 9th wicket in 41.2 over, the team score was 191 runs, followed by Fareed Ahmad Malik came to bat, meanwhile the 10th and final wicket also dismissed for 191 runs in first ball of the first ball of the 43rd over, Azmatullah Omarzai dismissed after scoring 28 runs in 31 balls, and Fazalhaq Farooqi remians unbeaten wihtout scoring in 4 balls. In this way, they continuously wicket failed one after another, and end of the result the entire team was all-out just for 191 runs in 42.1 overs, and lost the match by a big margin of 132 runs.
Sri Lankan bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Dhananjaya de Silva took 3 wickets just for 39 runs, Wanindu Hasaranga 3 wickets for 42 runs in 9 overs, Dushmantha Chameera 2 wickets just for 18 runs in 7 overs, Maheesh Theekshana 1 wicket for 35 runs in 7.1 over, Dasun Shanaka 1 wicket for 29 runs in 4 overs, and Kasun Rajitha was wicketless for 26 runs in 5 overs.
Sri Lankan all-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling as well as also in batting, took 3 wickets just for 39 runs in his spell, and played an unbeaten inning of 29 runs in 24 balls.
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