Half centuries by Charith Asalanka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa rallied erstwhile T20 World Cup champion Sri Lanka to a five-wicket triumph implicit a sloppy Bangladesh broadside successful their bad-tempered opening Super 12 lucifer connected Sunday.
Asalanka made a splendid unbeaten 80 disconnected 49 balls and Rajapaksa smashed 53 disconnected 31 balls helping transportation Sri Lanka to 172-5 with 7 balls to spare.
Earlier, Bangladesh posted a challenging full of 171-4 aft being enactment successful to bat.
The Bangladesh got of to a fiery commencement with opening batsman Liton Das getting progressive successful an altercation with Sri Lanka accelerated bowler Lahiru Kumara aft the accelerated bowler dismissed him.
Both players came look to look earlier being separated by Sri Lanka players arsenic Das’ teammate Mohammad Naim besides got involved, shoving Kumara. Das and Kumara exchanged heated words earlier the Bangladesh opener near the field.
"Well, well, good – I don't deliberation I've seen that. That's not a bully look for the crippled of cricket," Mark Nicholas said connected commentary astatine the time.
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"I'd similar to accidental that it was handbags, but I don't cognize that it was.
"It was rather unpleasant."
The unexpected match-up successful Group 1 betwixt the 2 Asian countries was made imaginable aft Bangladesh’s astonishment nonaccomplishment to Scotland successful the qualifiers.
Sri Lanka was cruising astatine 71-1 erstwhile Shakib Al Hasan’s duplicate strikes successful his archetypal implicit pulled backmost the 2014 World Cup winner.
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Shakib became the T20 World Cup all-time starring wicket-taker with 41, 2 up of Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, erstwhile helium cleanable bowled Pathum Nissanka and Avishka Fernando.
The earlier on-field altercation seemed to impact Das, who dropped some Asalanka and Rajapaksa, which proved costly aboriginal erstwhile Asalanka smashed 5 fours and 5 sixes portion Rajapaksa deed 3 fours and 3 sixes.
In Bangladesh's innings, Mohammad Naim (62) and Mushfiqur Rahim (57) smartly work the dilatory wicket astatine the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, which was re-laid past year. Mushfiqur utilized each his acquisition and played immoderate exquisite quadrate cuts and was not acrophobic to propulsion abbreviated deliveries to mid-wicket for his 2 sixes.
Sri Lanka appeared to beryllium satisfied with its commencement and chopped abbreviated premier leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga information abbreviated of his 4 overs aft returning figures of 0-29 from the 3 helium bowled.
England and Australia, which won their opening games against West Indies and South Africa respectively, connected Saturday are the different nations successful Group 1.
Sri Lanka's adjacent lucifer volition beryllium against Australia connected Friday greeting AEDT, portion Bangladesh volition adjacent beryllium successful enactment against England connected Wesdnesday night.
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