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Head-to-head between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan

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The 2022 Asia Cup is scheduled to begin on Saturday, August 27 (today) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the opening match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. This is the 15th session of the tournament and it is the second time after the 2016 tournament that the T20 format has been used.

6 teams will participate in the tournament divided into two groups. Hong Kong, India and Pakistan are in Group A while Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are in Group B. The top two teams from both groups qualify for the Super 4. The top two teams from the selected Super 4 qualify for the finals. To be held on September 11.

Head-to-head matches between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan

On March 17, 2016, in the T20 series held in Kolkata, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka faced each other only once. Chasing a target of 154 runs, Sri Lanka managed to win the match by 6 wickets. They have met twice in the Asia Cup, Sri Lanka won the first match in 2014 by 129 runs and Afghanistan won the second match in 2018 by 91 runs. In total, the two teams have met five times and Sri Lanka leads 4-1.

The best performances in the tournaments so far

Afghanistan’s long-time player and former captain Asghar Afghan scored 144 runs in four matches with two half-centuries and a top score of 62 at an average of 36 and a strike rate of 100.69. All-rounder Thisara Perera has taken 13 wickets in five matches with an average pace of 5.13 and the best bowling figure of 5 for 55 runs.

Details of the final between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan

The two sides last met on 4 June 2019 in the 2019 ICC World Cup in Cardiff. Batting first, the Sri Lankan team was bowled out for 201 runs in 37 overs. Kusal Perera scored 78 runs in 81 balls. Afghanistan, who played the chase innings, could score only 152 runs in 32.4 overs. Nuwan Pradeep, who performed well with the ball, was awarded the man of the match award by taking 4 wickets for 31 runs in 9 overs with one clean delivery.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය අතර මුහුණට මුහුණ තරග වාර්ථා

2022 ආසියානු කුසලානය අගෝස්තු 27 සෙනසුරාදා ( අද දින) එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ (UAE) ආරම්භ වීමට නියමිත අතර ආරම්භක තරගය ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ඩුබායි ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේදී පැවැත්වේ. මෙය තරඟාවලියේ 15 වන අදියර වන අතර 2016 පැවති තරගාවලියෙන් පසු දෙවන වරටත් T20 තරග ආතිය භාවිතා කරනු ලැබීය.

කණ්ඩායම් 6ක් කාණ්ඩ දෙකකට බෙදා තරගාවලියට සහභාගි වේ. හොංකොං, ඉන්දියාව සහ පකිස්ථානය A කාණ්ඩයෙන් ද ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය, බංගලාදේශය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව B කාණ්ඩයේ ද සිටිති. කාණ්ඩ දෙකෙන්ම පළමු කණ්ඩායම් දෙක Super 4 සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලබයි. තෝරා ගනු ලැබූ Super 4 හි පළමු කණ්ඩායම් දෙක අවසන් තරඟයට සුදුසුකම් ලබයි. සැප්තැම්බර් 11 වැනිදා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය අතර මුහුණට මුහුණ තරග

2016 මාර්තු 17 වැනිදා කොල්කටාහිදී පැවැති විස්සයි20 තරගාවලියේදී ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දුන්නේ එක් වරක් පමණි. ලකුණු 154ක ඉලක්කයක් හඹා ගිය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව එම තරගය කඩුලු 6කින් ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීමට සමත් විය. ආසියානු කුසලානයේ දී ඔවුන් මේ වන විට දෙවතාවක් මුහුණ දී ඇති අතර, 2014 වසරේ පැවැති පළමු තරගය ලකුණු 129කින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජයගත් අතර දෙවැනි තරගය 2018 දී ලකුණු 91 ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය ජයග්‍රහණය කළේය. සමස්තයක් වශයෙන් ගත් කල, කණ්ඩායම් දෙක පස් වතාවක් මුහුණ ගැහී ඇති අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 4-1 කින් ඉදිරියෙන් සිටී.

මෙතෙක් පැවති තරගාවලි වල හොදම දක්ෂතා

ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානයේ දීර්ඝ කාලයක් ක්‍රීඩකයෙකු සහ හිටපු නායක අස්ගර් ඇෆ්ගන් තරග හතරකදී ලකුණු 144ක් ලබාගත් අතර එම තරග හතරේදී සාමාන්‍ය 36ක් සහ 100.69ක ප්‍රහාරක වේගයක් සමඟින් අර්ධ ශතක දෙකක් සහ ඉහළම ලකුණු සංඛ්‍යාව 62ක් ලබාගෙන ඇත. තුන් ඉරියව් ක්‍රීඩක තිසර පෙරේරා තරග පහකදී කඩුලු 13ක් දවා ඇති අතර 5.13ක දළ වේගයක් සහ හොඳම පන්දු යැවීම ලකුණු 55කට කඩුලු 5ක් දවා ගනිමින්ය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය අතර පැවති අවසන් තරග විස්තරය

දෙපාර්ශවය අවසන් වරට මුණගැසුණේ 2019 ජූනි 4 වන දින කාඩිෆ් හි පැවති 2019 ICC ලෝක කුසලාන තරඟාවලියේදීය. පළමුවෙන් පන්දුවට පහරදුන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායම පන්දුවාර 37කදී ලකුණු 201කට දැවී ගියේය. කුසල් පෙරේරා පන්දු 81කදී ලකුණු 78ක් රැස්කළේය. පිළිතුරු ඉනිම ක්‍රීඩා කළ ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානයට පන්දුවාර 32.4කදී සියලු දෙනා දැවී ලබාගත හැකි වූයේ ලකුණු 152ක් පමණයි. පන්දුවෙන් දස්කම් දැක්වූ නුවන් ප්‍රදීප් තරගයේ වීරයා සම්මානයෙන් පිදුම් ලැබුවේ එක් නිලකුණු පන්දුවාරයක් සමඟින් ඕවර 9කදී ලකුණු 31කට කඩුලු 4ක් දවා ගනිමින්ය.

இலங்கை மற்றும் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் இடையிலான நேருக்கு நேர் போட்டிகள்

2022 ஆசியக் கோப்பை ஆகஸ்ட் 27, சனிக்கிழமை (இன்று) ஐக்கிய அரபு எமிரேட்ஸில் (யுஏஇ) துபாய் சர்வதேச கிரிக்கெட் ஸ்டேடியத்தில் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் மற்றும் இலங்கை இடையேயான தொடக்க ஆட்டத்துடன் தொடங்க உள்ளது. இது 15வது லெக் போட்டியாகும், மேலும் 2016 போட்டிக்குப் பிறகு டி20 வடிவம் பயன்படுத்தப்படுவது இது இரண்டாவது முறையாகும்.

6 அணிகள் இரண்டு குழுக்களாக பிரிக்கப்பட்டு போட்டியில் பங்கேற்கும். ஏ பிரிவில் ஹாங்காங், இந்தியா, பாகிஸ்தான் அணிகளும், பி பிரிவில் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான், வங்கதேசம், இலங்கை அணிகளும் இடம் பெற்றுள்ளன. இரு பிரிவிலும் முதல் இரண்டு இடங்களை பிடிக்கும் அணிகள் சூப்பர் 4 சுற்றுக்கு தகுதி பெறும். தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட சூப்பர் 4 அணிகளில் முதல் இரண்டு இடங்களைப் பிடிக்கும் அணிகள் இறுதிப் போட்டிக்கு தகுதி பெறும். செப்டம்பர் 11ம் தேதி நடைபெற உள்ளது.

இலங்கை மற்றும் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் இடையிலான நேருக்கு நேர் போட்டிகள்

மார்ச் 17, 2016 அன்று, கொல்கத்தாவில் நடைபெற்ற டி20 தொடரில், ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் மற்றும் இலங்கை அணிகள் ஒருமுறை மட்டுமே நேருக்கு நேர் மோதின. 154 ரன்கள் எடுத்தால் வெற்றி என்ற இலக்குடன் களமிறங்கிய இலங்கை அணி 6 விக்கெட் வித்தியாசத்தில் வெற்றி பெற்றது. ஆசியக் கோப்பையில் இருமுறை சந்தித்துள்ளனர், 2014ல் நடந்த முதல் போட்டியில் இலங்கை 129 ரன்களாலும், 2018ல் நடந்த இரண்டாவது போட்டியில் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் 91 ரன்களாலும் வெற்றி பெற்றது. மொத்தத்தில் இரு அணிகளும் ஐந்து முறை நேருக்கு நேர் சந்தித்துள்ள நிலையில் இலங்கை 4-1 என முன்னிலை பெற்றுள்ளது.

இதுவரை நடந்த போட்டிகளில் சிறப்பான ஆட்டத்தை வெளிப்படுத்தியுள்ளது

ஆப்கானிஸ்தானின் நீண்ட கால வீரரும் முன்னாள் கேப்டனுமான அஸ்கர் ஆப்கான் நான்கு போட்டிகளில் இரண்டு அரை சதங்கள் மற்றும் 62 ரன்களின் சராசரி 36 மற்றும் ஸ்ட்ரைக் ரேட் 100.69 உடன் 144 ரன்கள் எடுத்தார். ஆல்-ரவுண்டர் திசர பெரேரா ஐந்து போட்டிகளில் 5.13 சராசரி வேகத்துடன் 13 விக்கெட்டுகளையும் 55 ரன்களுக்கு 5 விக்கெட்டுகளையும் வீழ்த்தியுள்ளார்.

இலங்கை மற்றும் ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் அணிகளுக்கு இடையிலான இறுதிப் போட்டியின் விபரங்கள்

இரு அணிகளும் கடைசியாக ஜூன் 4, 2019 அன்று கார்டிப்பில் நடந்த 2019 ஐசிசி உலகக் கோப்பையில் சந்தித்தன. முதலில் பேட் செய்த இலங்கை அணி 37 ஓவர்களில் 201 ரன்களுக்கு ஆட்டமிழந்தது. குசல் பெரேரா 81 பந்துகளில் 78 ரன்கள் எடுத்தார். பதில் இன்னிங்சை விளையாடிய ஆப்கானிஸ்தான் அணியால் 32.4 ஓவர்களில் 152 ரன்கள் மட்டுமே எடுக்க முடிந்தது. பந்து வீச்சில் சிறப்பாகச் செயற்பட்ட நுவான் பிரதீப் ஒரு கிளீன் பந்து வீச்சில் 9 ஓவர்களில் 31 ஓட்டங்களுக்கு 4 விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தி ஆட்ட நாயகன் விருது பெற்றார்.

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Hero’s Welcome for Golden Girl Wasana

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Sri Lanka celebrated in style as its lone gold medalist Nipuni Wasana at the 6th Asian Beach Games returned home to a rousing welcome, marking a proud moment for the nation.

Airwoman Nipuni Wasana stole the spotlight in Sanya, China, where she clinched gold in the Women’s 50kg Beach Wrestling event. In the final, she overcame Vietnam’s Doan Thi Kim Oanh with a composed and commanding performance, securing a historic victory for Sri Lanka.

Her achievement was met with a grand at Bandaranaike International Airport, where Air Force personnel, sports officials, and supporters gathered to honor her success. Wasana was also given the distinction of carrying the national flag at the closing ceremony, highlighting her status as the country’s top performer at the Games.

Sri Lanka wrapped up its campaign with a total of seven medals one gold, two silver, and four bronze demonstrating competitive strength across multiple disciplines.

The Women’s Beach Kabaddi team delivered an impressive performance to secure silver, while the Men’s team contributed with a bronze medal finish. In Athletics, Ishara Samanmali earned silver in the women’s long jump, and Sashikala Lankathilaka claimed bronze. The Men’s 4x60m relay team also added to the tally with a bronze-winning effort.

A contingent of 77 Sri Lankan athletes competed in eight sports at the Games. Although several disciplines did not produce medals, the team achieved a respectable 10th place overall.
Host nation China dominated the medal standings with 24 gold medals, followed by Thailand and Iran.

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Chathuranga takes charge as Tuskers seek redemption in final showdown

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Sri Lanka’s Tuskers head into their final fixture against the touring New Zealand Under-85kg side this evening with a fresh leader and a renewed sense of urgency, following a narrow defeat in the opening encounter.

In a notable pre-match development, Tharindu Chathuranga has been entrusted with the captaincy for the decisive game at Nittawela Stadium, set to kick off at 4.15 p.m. The move sees original skipper Lasindu Karunathilake relegated to the bench, as selectors opt for a different approach in their bid to overturn fortunes.

The Tuskers were competitive in the first leg but ultimately fell 27–16 at the Racecourse Grounds. With the series on the line, the team management has responded with a mix of tactical reshuffling and personnel changes aimed at sharpening both attack and defense.
Among the key adjustments, Omalka Gunarathna steps into the starting role at number eight, while Kavindu de Costa replaces Harsha Maduranga at scrum-half. An injury to winger Janidu Dilshan has forced another change, with Jayathu Rajarathna promoted from the bench to the starting XV.

Further alterations in the back division see Murshid Doray move to fullback, allowing Thenuka Nanayakkara to slot into the fly-half position to steer the attack. The bench too has been reinforced with fresh options, as selectors look to add impact in the latter stages of the contest.

Chathuranga, a seasoned campaigner and former Kingswood College leader, has earned recognition for guiding Kandy SC to a strong league season, finishing as runners-up. Known for his work rate and leadership qualities, he now shoulders the responsibility of rallying the side in a high-stakes encounter.

With pride and parity in the series at stake, the Tuskers will be aiming for a more disciplined and clinical display as they attempt to turn the tables on a resilient New Zealand outfit.

Line-up for the final match

Forwards: Deshan Vimukthi, Pulasthi Dassanayake, Hansitha De Silva, Thilina Bandara, Naveen Marasinghe, Tharindu Chathuranga (captain), Lahiru Thilakarathne, Omalka Gunarathna

Backs: Kavindu de Costa, Thenuka Nanayakkara, Dilulksha Dange, Arkash Maduranga, Manika Ruberu, Jayathu Rajarathna, Murshid Doray

Bench: Venura Kodhagoda, Charith Silva, Nisal, Lasindu Karunathilake, Denuwan Wickramaarachi, Oliver Buckle, Vidhuna Amaneth, Yuwan Pathirana

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Sri Lanka U-19 Players Face Charges Over Alleged Hotel Recording Incident

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Two players from Sri Lanka’s Under-19 cricket squad have been taken into custody allegations that they covertly recorded individuals inside a hotel in the Narahenpita area, according to police.

The arrests came after multiple complaints were lodged by female medical professionals attending a conference at the hotel. The complainants reported that they had been secretly filmed while bathing in their rooms, allegedly using mobile phones.

Authorities revealed that preliminary investigations suggest the suspects may also have captured footage involving male guests at the same premises. Police are continuing inquiries to determine whether any of the recordings were distributed through online platforms.
The suspects were presented before the Aluthkade Magistrate’s Court and subsequently released on personal bail set at Rs. 500,000 each. Further investigations are ongoing.

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