Afghanistan-A has won the Emerging Asia Cup title for the first time. The team defeated Sri Lanka-A by 7 wickets in the final played at the Al Emirates Stadium on Sunday. This is a historic win for Afghanistan cricket. This is the team's first title in any cricket format or age group tournament.
Afghanistan-A team reached the semi-finals in the year 2017 and 2019. This time he reached the final for the first time and also won the title.
In this match, Sri Lankan captain Nuwanidu Fernando won the toss and decided to bat first. Sri Lanka, playing first against Afghanistan, scored 133 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs and gave the Afghanistan team a target of 134 runs to win. In reply, Afghanistan achieved the target by losing 3 wickets in 18.1 overs.
Siddiquullah Atal scored a half-century for Afghanistan. He scored half centuries in all 5 matches of this tournament.
Celebrating victory in Afghanistan
Afghanistan won the first ICC trophy. The team defeated Sri Lanka in the final of the Emerging Asia Cup.
A large number of fans gathered in Kabul and celebrated the victory.
Celebrations continued late into the night in Kabul.
Siddiqullah's unbeaten half-century Sidiqullah Atal scored an unbeaten 55 from Afghanistan. Karim Janat played an innings of 33 runs. Mohammad Ishaq scored an unbeaten 16 runs. Sahan Arachige, Dushan Hemantha and Ishan Malinga got 1 wicket each.
Sahan scored an unbeaten 64 runs Sri Lanka A got off to a very poor start with 4 wickets falling for just 15 runs. From here Sahan Arachige played an important innings for the team. He scored a half century. He scored 64 runs off 47 balls. Pawan Ratnayake contributed 20 runs. Nimesh Vimukti also played an innings of 23 runs. Bilal Sami scored 3 runs while Allah Ghazanfar scored 2 runs for Afghanistan-A.
Afghanistan reached the final by defeating India in the semi-finals Afghanistan team has made a place in the final after defeating India in the semi-final. When Sri Lanka reached the final by defeating the Pakistan team.
Pakistan and Sri Lanka won two titles each This was the sixth season of the ACC Men's Emerging Asia Cup. Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won two titles each. India has won once. India won the title in 2013 by defeating Pakistan.
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