India vs Sri Lanka Asia Cup 2023 Final: Asia Cup 2023 has reached the final after a lot of exciting matches. The Indian team had already made an entry. On Thursday (September 14), Sri Lanka also defeated Pakistan by 2 wickets to make it to the final. Now the title match between India and Sri Lanka will be played in Colombo on September 17. Pakistan seemed to be in the match for a time They won, but then the whole match was turned upside down on the last two balls.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bat in the Asia Cup 2023 Super 4. After this, the match was reduced to 42 overs.
Mendis’ fifty overshadowed Rizwan’s innings
Wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan scored 86 off 73 balls , while opener Abdullah Shafiq scored 52 and Iftikhar Ahmed scored 47 runs. Rizwan and Iftikhar shared a 78-ball 108-run partnership for the sixth wicket.
To win the match, Sri Lanka got a target of 253 runs in 42 overs, in response to which the team won the match by losing 8 wickets on the last ball of the innings. For Sri Lanka, Kusal Mendis scored the highest score of 91 off 87 balls. Charith Aslanka remained unbeaten on 49. For Pakistan, Iftikhar Ahmed took 3 and Shaheen Afridi took 2 wickets.
The match turned around in the last over
Sri Lanka needed eight runs in the last over to win. Pramod Madusan and Charthi Aslanka were on the wicket. Asalanka then turned the match around by scoring 4 runs and 2 runs off the last two balls.
41.1 overs: 1 run leg bye
41.2overs: 0 runs
41.3 overs: 1 run
41.4 overs: Out (Pramod)
41.5 overs: 4 runs
42 overs: 2 runs
This will be the9th time the final match between India and Sri Lanka
The Indian team will play the final for the 10th time in the ODI Asia Cup this time. The Indian team has won the title 6 out of 9 times so far. Let us know that the Indian team once won the T20Asia Cup title in 2016. Let us know that theIndian team has played 8 out of 9 times against Sri Lanka and once against Bangladesh.
This time the Indian team will clash for the 9th time in the final between India and Sri Lanka. The Indian team played the first final of the Asia Cup in 1984, then the tournament was held in the UAE, in which India defeated Sri Lanka in the final. The last time theIndian team played the final of the ODI Asia Cup was in 2018. In this final held in Dubai, they won the title by defeating Bangladesh.
The Indian team won the most titles
In the history of Asia Cup (T20, ODI), the Indian team has won the title 7 times. India won the Asia Cup title in 1984, 1988, 1990/91, 1995, 2010, 2016 and 2018. Sri Lanka team 1986, India has won the Asia Cup in 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014 and 2022, while the Asia Cup trophy was crowned by Pakistan in 2000 and 2012.
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