Dubai: Some scintillating batting from Bhanuka Rajapaksa (71 off 45 balls) adopted by a four-wicket haul by Pramod Madushan and a three-wicket over by Wanindu Hasaranga helped Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 23 runs to elevate their sixth Asia Cup title at Dubai Worldwide Stadium on Sunday.

Talking about their win, Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka mentioned, “I need to thank the group, they had been supporting us massively. And in addition to the followers at residence, hope we made them proud. These children know circumstances and scenario rather well. After shedding 5 wickets, Hasaranga-Rajapaksa made a distinction. Up entrance, Chamika and DDS batted rather well too. The last-ball six within the twentieth over was the turnaround level. 170 is all the time a tough complete.”

Speaking about their loss within the first sport, Shanaka mentioned, ” It may occur to any good workforce. It occurred to us for a very good cause. We had critical discussions after that. We now have gamers with good calibre, they usually stood up nicely. That is the place we turned champions.”

Congratulating Sri Lanka for his or her excellent win, Pakistan captain Babar Azam mentioned, “The way in which we dominated them early, their partnership after that was excellent. The pitch was good, just like the Dubai wicket, all the time enjoyable to play right here. As a batting unit we did not do in line with our potential. We did not end the way in which we might’ve needed to. However there are many positives from the match. Our fielding wasn’t on top of things at the moment, and our middle-order could not end nicely at the moment. However there have been lot of particular person performances– Rizwan, Shadab, Nawaz and Naseem.”

Bhanuka Rajapaksa, who was Participant of the Match for his 45-ball 71, mentioned after being 5 down, it wasn’t straightforward on the market. “They had been bowling nicely. Wanindu and I had a pleasant plan. Nature of SL workforce is to be constructive and never have stress. That helped us rating runs. When Iftikhar was bowling, Wanindu needed to assault, however fortuitously each of us had been getting the runs. I needed to change my sport at the moment since Pakistan had been high in the mean time. Needed to spend a while on the crease. When Chris got here to speak to us on the drinks break, I informed him that it seems to be like a 140 pitch. And finally we stayed until the tip and the eventual goal was a lot completely different. This can be a sport of momentum, and we set the momentum within the final over of the primary innings.”