Oman: The final match of the Emerging Asia Cup 2024 was played between Sri Lanka A and Afghanistan A at the Al Emirates Cricket Ground. Afghanistan won this match by 7 wickets. He has now become the new boss of Asia at the junior level. Let us tell you that last year Pakistan had won the Emerging Asia Cup. Now Afghanistan has won this title. Afghanistan had earlier defeated India A, captained by Tilak Verma, by 20 runs in the semi-finals. Let us know how Afghanistan A defeated Sri Lanka A in the final.Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat
The Sri Lanka A captain had won the toss and elected to bat first in the final against Afghanistan A. In such a situation, Sri Lanka A scored 133 runs on the board for 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Sahan Arachchige scored the highest score of 64 runs for Sri Lanka A. Sri Lanka’s top order completely failed.
Bilal Sami took maximum 3 wickets for Afghanistan A while Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar also took 2 wickets. Afghanistan A had to chase the target of 134 runs to win the final.
Afghanistan won the match 11 balls earlier
Chasing the target of 134 runs, Afghanistan A’s start was not so special. They lost their opener Zubaid Akbari on the very first ball of the innings. However, after this, Sediqullah Atal kept playing holding one end and remained unbeaten till the end. He scored unbeaten 55 runs with the help of 3 fours and 1 six.
Captain Darwish Rasooli (24) and Karim Janat (33) supported him well. Finally Mohammad Ishaq came quickly and scored unbeaten 16 runs on 6 balls. In this way, Afghanistan A chased this run chase in 18.1 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.