The 15th season of the Asia Cup 2022 ended on Sunday. Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 23 runs to win the final of the T20 tournament. With this, Sri Lanka have won the Asia Cup title for the sixth time. India have won the Asia Cup a total of seven times while the Pakistan team has won the Asia Cup title only twice.
Sri Lanka played first in sunday's Asia Cup final match to post 170 for six. For the team, Bhanuka Rajapaksa top scored 71 to set a strong target in front of Pakistan. In response, Pakistan managed to score only 147 runs in 20 overs. Sri Lanka's Bhanuka Rajapaksa was awarded player of the match for her stellar performance in the match.
It is to be noted that Sri Lanka lost to Afghanistan by 8 wickets in the first match of the tournament. But after that the team won 5 matches in a row.
It is to be noted that this tournament is organized by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). After winning the Asia Cup final, Sri Lanka won $1.50 lakh or about Rs 1.20 crore as champions. At the same time, runner-up Pakistan received $75,000, or about Rs 60 lakh. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was also present at the awards ceremony of the Asia Cup. Team India was knocked out of the Super 4 this season of the Asia Cup.
On the other hand, leg spinner and all-rounder Wanindu Hachanga are considered as players of the films. In the t20 series, he managed to take 9 wickets at an average of 19 in 6 matches of the T20 tournament. Moreover, the best performance was to take 3 wickets in 21 runs. At that time, he had collected 66 runs on an average of 22 in the game and his record was 150. It is worth mentioning here that in the final game, he collected 21 runs and collected 36 runs while his record was 171. Moreover, he managed to take 3 wickets in 27 runs in the game. He took 3 wickets in the over and pushed Pakistan to the brink.
Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir commented on Star Sports that the Asia Cup 'T20 is the biggest event after the World Cup'. He said that there are strong teams like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh in the Asian continent. The Asia Cup 2022 has proved to be the toughest Asia Cup so far. It is learnt that no one considered Sri Lanka as champions before the tournament. But Sri Lanka surprised everyone by performing amazingly throughout the tournament.
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