After a pulsating game, the former champions Sri Lanka won against Ireland with some scary moments.
When they took to the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium in Florida on Friday, Sri Lanka’s batting looked wobbly.
They passed 82 runs for five wickets in 11 overs and posted 163/8 at the end of their innings.
Their all-rounders who included Wanindu Hasaranga (26), Angelo Mathews (32) and Shanaka (23) batted quickly to take them to a competitive total.
The team was fortunate as early contributions from Pau Stirling (21) and George Dockrell (17). However, things went downhill when Shanaka became captain. He switched to medium bowling after contributing with his middle order pace. His figure stood at 4/23 as Ireland slumped to 122 all out after 18.2 overs.
Sri Lanka will play South Africa in New York on Monday while India is scheduled to meet Scotland on Wednesday.
Afghanistan is good at challenging Scotland
Due to Gulbadin Naib’s influence, Rashid Khan assisted by Mujeeb Ur Rahman were responsible for Afghanistan beating Scotland by 55 runs in Trinidadian port of spain.
In the warm-up match against Oman, rain prevented Afghanistan from having a chance of batting but they made it count during the game against Scotland
Ghubaz Rahmanullah and Naib are two openers that Afghanistan had chosen to bat with.
Against Brandon McMullen in second innings Nabi scored twenty after hitting two boundaries and two sixes Bangladesh ended scoring at 178/8. With a score of thirty off just twenty nine balls Azmatullah Omarzai also helped out the team. Also Nab scored top for Afghanistan grouping three fours and seven sixes amounting up to sixty nine balls over thirty minutes with him hitting once again four random shots for ten more points than Scotland were able to put together.
Afghanistan will be in their first T20 World Cup match against Uganda, while Scotland will take on England at Barbados on Tuesday.
Brief score:
In Lauderhill: Sri Lanka 163/8; 20 overs (Angelo Matthews 32 not out; Josh Little 2/45, Barry McCarthy 2/31) beat Ireland 122; 18.2 overs (Curtis Campher 26; Dasun Shanaka 4 /23, Maheesh Theekshana 2/14, Wanindu Hasaranga 2/40) by 41 runs
In Port of Spain: Afghanistan 178/8; 20 overs (Gulbadin Naib69, Azmatullah Umarzai48; Chris Soule3/35, Bradley Curry 2/26) defeated Scotland 123/9 by a margin of 55 runs ( Mark Watt 34; Karim Janat 2/13, Mujibur Ur Rahman 2/23.)
