Zimbabwe defeated Sri Lanka badlyImage Credit Source: X/Sri Lanka Cricket
The Asia Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), just before 2025, some tremendous results increased the tournament. Pakistan’s defeat at the hands of Afghanistan was not shocking, but the way UAE put the Pakistani team in trouble, he told that there will be a thorn in the tournament. But now the most shocking result was seen in a T20 match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, in which the current Asia Cup champion (T20 format) Sri Lankan team had to face a crushing defeat. The entire team of Sri Lanka, playing this T20 series for the preparations for the tournament, collapsed at a minor score of just 80 runs.
The Sri Lankan team was watching this T20 series going on in Harare as a preparation for the Asia Cup. Sri Lanka, captained by Charit Asanka, also expressed intentions by registering a strong win in the first match. But hardly anyone would have guessed that this team will be in such a bad condition in the next match. Everyone would have had some possibility and hope of winning a match in this series of Zimbabwe, but the Sri Lankan team will lose so much, hardly anyone would have thought.
Sri Lanka’s second shortest score
In this match, Sri Lanka batted first and the process of falling wickets started from the second over itself. Once this autumn started, then it stopped only after falling the last wicket in the 18th over. 8 out of 11 batsmen from Sri Lanka returned to the pavilion on a single digit score. Kamil Mishara scored the highest 20 runs in 20 balls, while captain Asalanka scored only 18 runs in 23 balls.
Zimbabwe’s captain Sikander Raza played the biggest role in doing such a plight of Sri Lanka. Alexander implicated 3 batsmen in his spin, while young pacer Brad Evans also took 3 wickets. It also became the second smallest score in Sri Lanka in T20 cricket. Sri Lanka’s shortest score is 77 runs, which came against South Africa in the World Cup 2024.
Zimbabwe wins by 5 wickets
Zimbabwe’s victory seemed to be decided from here, but for this he also had to struggle a little and Sri Lanka did not allow him to reach the target easily. Veteran fast bowler Dushmanta Chamera especially created difficulties and took 3 wickets for just 19 runs in 4 overs. Due to this, Zimbabwe spent 14.2 overs to achieve this target and lost 5 wickets. However, Zimbabwe did not allow the chance to win by winning the unbeaten innings of 21 runs in 14 balls of Tashinga Musskiva and equaled 1-1 in the series.
