Brimming with talent…still a century away…Lanka’s star roars ahead of World Cup

New Delhi. The Asia Cup (Asia Cup 2023) has moved towards its final stage. Bangladesh team is playing a do-or-die match against Sri Lanka after losing to Pakistan in the Super-4. In this match, Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan won the toss and decided to bowl. But could not penetrate the Sri Lankan top order. 3 of the top-4 batsmen troubled Shakib and Co. There was one batsman in this list who has the talent to take on any team, yet unfortunately fell short of scoring a century.

We are talking about Sri Lankan batsman Sadira Samarawickrama who came up as a wall against Bangladesh. But fate struck that he fell victim to the nervous nineties. This is not the first time that Sadira has missed a century, she has played big innings twice before but was unable to convert it into a century. Sadira played a valuable innings of 93 runs in this match and took his team to a fighting score. But he missed his century by just 7 runs. He bowled just 72 balls for this innings, which also featured 8 fours and 2 towering sixes.

Scored 70 runs three times in 17 innings

Sadira had a very poor start to her ODI career. He returned to the pavilion for a wicket in the first two matches. But he hasn’t looked back since. The rising star from Lanka has so far scored 5 fifties in 17 innings, out of which he has scored more than 70 runs three times. Before this innings of 93 runs, he played a brilliant innings of 82 runs against Ireland in June. When talking about Asia Cup, he has scored 150 runs in 3 matches. Sadira has played both innings of 54 and 93 runs only against Bangladesh.

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Apart from Sadira, Kushal Mendis also scored a half century. He scored 50 runs in 73 balls with the help of 6 fours and 1 six. At the same time, opener Pathum Nishanka also scored 40 runs. With the help of this innings, Sri Lanka has given Bangladesh a target of 258 runs.

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