Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score Streaming Online: Asia Cup Super 4.Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan, Super 4, Live Cricket Score Streaming and Updates: Dasun Shanaka’s Sri Lanka will take on Mohammad Nabi-led Afghanistan in the first Super Four match at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Saturday.
In the tournament’s opener, Afghanistan stunned five-time champion Sri Lanka, by a staggering eight wickets. Afghanistan topped Group B with two convincing wins against both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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Dasun Shanaka's Sri Lanka will take on Mohammad Nabi-led Afghanistan on Saturday.
A few glimpses of how it went when these two teams met the last time at the 2022 Asia Cup.
Here's how the two teams can line up today.
Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Charith Asalanka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dasun Shanaka (c), Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Asitha Fernando, Dilshan Madushanka.
Afghanistan: Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi (c), Rashid Khan, Azmatullah Omarzai, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Echoes of famed past float in but the Sharjah stadium, much like the city, has resigned to a slumberous nostalgia.
Read here: Ghost of a Match Day Friday at Sharjah
“We must deliver to our countrymen", "Afghanistan doesn’t have popstars or politicians to celebrate...cricketers are the heroes”. A win would barely change things for their loudest fans but for Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, cricket continues as they face off in the 2022 Asia Cup.
Read: Away from crises at home, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan face off in Asia Cup 2022
For Indian cricket fans, Dubai ushers in a certain coldness, an unfamiliarity even (India have played just 6 Odis and five T20s).There is no Sharjah-like warmth, or memories or moments, or nostalgia and sentiments, that burst forth like a water balloon pricked, but just an endless stretch of concrete wasteland, the emotional distance longer than it takes you to drive from Dubai to Sharjah.
Read here: Cricket in the desert: Nostalgia in ageing Sharjah, a coldness in future-ready Dubai
The Bangladesh-Sri Lanka rivalry might not be the largest or oldest subcontinental rivalry - never would it acquire the aura or stature of India-Pakistan - but it is the noisiest one around, marked by genuine loathing among the fans.
Read here: Sri Lanka eliminate sloppy Bangladesh in match of fluctuating emotions
Two features of Afghanistan medium pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi stand out. The first, and the most prominent is the late inswing he purchases against the right-handed batsmen. His action is not classically moulded, not a Trent Boult or Shaheen Afridi who glides into their release. The second is the energy he expends on his appeals. Both features rattled Sri Lanka’s batsmen. The swing first, and then the appeal.
Read here: Pacer Farooqi swings it Afghanistan’s way against Sri Lanka, from Sandip G
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Here we go then. The group walls have been brought down. Two off the six teams have been eliminated. Asia Cup 2022 moves into the Super 4 stage and we begin with the teams from same groups facing off each other first. Starting with Afghanistan taking off Sri Lanka at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Mohammad Nabi and co. beat Dasun Shanaka's side in the tournament opener. By a whooping eight wickets, dismissing Sri Lanka for 105 and then chasing down the total with 59 deliveries to spare. While the Afghans would want to take things forward having topped Group B with a hundred percent record, Sri Lanka would be feeling better since their last meeting having won a thriller against Bangladesh.