Sri Lanka The Asia Cup will be against Afghanistan in the eleventh match of 2025. This article offers details about playing Afghanistan’s 11 vs Sri Lanka for the eleventh match of the tournament.
Afghanistan 11 vs Sri Lanka- Asia Cup 2025, Match 11:
Opener: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK), Sedikullah Atal
Despite a major victory in the Asia Cup opener against Hong Kong, Afghanistan finds itself in a strange position, as Rashid Khan -led side needs to win the final group stage match against Sri Lanka with a big margin to qualify for the next round.
This scenario has been designed courtesy of a loss that the team faced against Bangladesh in the previous game, where Afghan could not pursue a target of 155 runs.
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Chasing a score of 150 plus against full -member Asian countries is a poor record of Afghanistan, and would like to correct that if that kind of situation arises again in the upcoming competition.
Afghan will be on the opener to make the team start well in the first six overs.
Saying that, the initial pair of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sedikullah Atal want to capital the middle-order batsmen on the platform kept by them.
Senior batsman Rahmullah Gurbaz wants to take responsibility and play a match winning innings for Afghanistan.
Gurbaz’s early partner, Sedikullah Atal, who was rejected on the first ball of Chase against Bangladesh, would see it as a bad day in the office and go about his work in his normal aggressive way.
Middle-order batsman and all-rounders: Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarjai, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan (C)
The Afghan Middle Order will have to keep its hand up and work for the team if they bat second against Sri Lanka.
Gulbadin Naib, Karim Janat and Mohammad Nabi want to bat till the end if either of the three sets and takes the team on line.
Gulabdin Naib and Karim Janat, in particular, have to be good with the bat, given that they do not bowl late despite being all -rounders.
Although Afghanistan lost the previous match due to disappointing performance with the bat, the biggest positive to the team was the form of Azmatullah Omarjai with both the positive bat and the ball.
The all -rounder tried his best to win the game for the team, but failed, and would have itching to do so in the match against Sri Lanka.
Bowler: Noor Ahmed, AM Ghazanfer, Fazalhak Farooqui
Unlike batting, the bowling of the team did a good job by limiting the opposition to a score of less than 160 runs after making a solid start in the first ten overs of Litton Das.
The return was led by Afghan spinners, in which captain Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmed had a pickle of bowlers.
The spinners were well -supported by the fast bowling pair of Fazalhak Farooqui and Azmatullah Omrajai, who banned Bangladesh from scoring independently in the last few overs.
Afghanistan is expected to go with an unchanged play XI, which means they will bank on their spinners to maintain good work, and fast to give them good support for bowlers.
