SL vs BAN: Match changed in 3 balls..!? Sri Lanka in shock..!

Sowmiya Sriram
SL vs BAN: Match changed in 3 balls..!? sri lanka in shock..!
 The 2024 t20 world cup Group D match between sri lanka and bangladesh was held in Dallas. Batting first in this match, sri lanka scored 124 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. The team's opener Padum Nissanka scored 47 runs off 28 balls. Other players did not add many runs. Also, they bowled slowly and wasted the balls. The Sri Lankan team could only add 124 runs. After this, bangladesh started chasing after scoring 125 runs. The team got off to a poor start losing 2 wickets for 6 runs in the second over. Then Liton Das and Tawheed Hiruthoi combined for the fourth wicket to rescue the team. Hitting three sixes in the first three balls of the 12th over, Hiruthoi was in action. His hat-trick of sixes turned the match upside down.
The pressure increased for the Sri Lankan team. After that, the bangladesh team lost wickets after scoring 33 runs in 48 balls. Hiruthoi lost the game after scoring 40 runs off 20 balls. After that, bangladesh lost successive wickets. However, as they needed to score fewer runs to win, they stumbled a bit and won by scoring 125 runs for the loss of 8 wickets at the end of 19 overs. Despite losing 8 wickets, sri lanka lost by 2 wickets as Tawheed Hiruthoi failed to control the run accumulation.

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