Sri Lanka opens its account of the 2025 Asian Cup with a complete victory of six T20 counters against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi.
Posted on September 13, 2025
The Pathum Nissanka became the fastest Sri-Lankan striker to reach 2,000 T20 points while the opener springs his team to a six-countered victory against Bangladesh in a crucial match in Asia Cup on Saturday.
Nissanka has perfectly handled the line and the lengths of the Bangladesh quisors to mark 50 on 34 bullets, and Sri Lanka experienced 140-4 in a good start to the campaign.
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The Bangladesh, which gave Hong Kong a dubbing to seven golets in its first game B match, recovered from a horror start to score 139-5 after losing the two openers against the quick Bowler player Nuwan Thushara and Dushmantha Chameera at the counter of the successive counter with the new ball.
Nissanka commonly struck and scored six four and one while he reached the 2,000-point landmark in his 68th T20 sleeves when he finished his half-century. Kusal Perera had the previous Sri Lanka record, achieving the feat in 76 rounds.
Nissanka fell shortly after its 95 -point entertaining stand with Kamil Mishara (46 not released) had almost sealed the game, when Shoriful Islam was maintained at a spectacular half -hand capture with a deep square leg.
Bangladesh had to pay a high price for abandoning Mishra on 1 when Mahedi Hassan could not keep a two -handed socket near the circle of 30 meters wide. Although Perera and Dasun Shanaka also quickly perished while going for big blows, the undefeated blow of Mishara of 32 bullets assured Sri Lanka finished the match with more than five letters to lose.
Earlier, after being put in the bat, Shamim Hossain (42) and Jaker Ali (41) helped Bangladesh recover from a disastrous departure in the second half of their sleeves when they combined in an uninterrupted stand of 86 points.
Wanundu Masseranga made a striking return to international cricket with figures of 2-25 after missing the last series against Zimbabwe due to an injury to the hamstrings. The leg spinner should have had the jaker’s counter in his hectic second, only to see her googly pointed to graze the stump after crossing the defenses of the striker, but the two berries stayed on the stumps.
The sophisticated rotation deliveries of Rasanga and the twin strikes of Thushara and Chameera saw the Bangladesh compete at 53-5 in the 10th row when Captain Litton Das (28) was out of the leg before the counter while trying a reversed sweep against Risanga.
Chameera played impressive Yorkers in the overs of death and finished with identical figures of 4-1-17-1 with Thushara. Shamim struck the only six in the otherwise defensive sleeves of Bangladesh when he struck the only Bowler Sri Lanka off color – Matheesha Pathirara (0-42) – on Midwicket.
