Sri Lanka 308 for 6 (Asalanka 97*, Mendis 61, Omarzai 3-56) beat Afghanistan 153 (Rahmat 63, Ibrahim 54, Hasaranga 4-27) by 155 runs.

Sri Lanka’s center request driven by Charith Asalanka heaped on a second progressive 300 or more aggregate, assisting them with getting a 155-run win in the second ODI in Pallekele. Afghanistan collapsed in their pursuit to lose the three-coordinate series with a game to go.

Pursuing 309, Afghanistan had set themselves up well for a late charge, especially when Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmat Shah were in their 97-run second-wicket stand. Yet, when Asitha Fernando had Ibrahim choked down the leg, the Afghan innings went into drop. They lost their next eight wickets for only 25 runs as Sri Lanka wrapped the innings up inside 34 overs.

Asalanka, Hasaranga level Afghanistan to seal series for Sri Lanka

Wanindu Hasaranga got figures of 4 for 27, while Asitha – playing his most memorable ODI in more than a year – and Dilshan Madushanka had two each. Pramod Madushan excessively wrapped up with one to his name.

Afghanistan has displayed in the past that their attempted and tried technique for pursuing enormous sums is to take the game profoundly, and that plan was obvious at every turn.

Neither Rahmanullah Gurbaz nor Ibrahim volunteered to pursue the bowling right off the bat – a huge piece of which was down to the tight lines and lengths of the Lankan seamers.

Asitha moved one to crease away barely to the point of getting the edge of Gurbaz for a strangely curbed 8 off 20.

Ibrahim and Rahmat then, at that point, put on the main genuine organization of the innings, yet they excessively battled to stay aware of the expected rate. When Ibrahim fell in the 27th over, the necessary rate went above 7.5 an over – still very gettable.

Notwithstanding, Hasaranga struck two times inside the space of an over. He caught Rahmat’s leg before with a googly and afterward bowled Hashmatullah Shahidi through the entryway after he had neglected to get to the pitch of a leg break. That is the point at which the wheels started to fall off.

Azmatullah Omarzai, who scored 100 years in the initial game, inside-edged a fullish one from Madushan onto the stumps using his cushions. Hasaranga then, at that point, delivered his second twofold wicket over of the game.

The first to go was Mohammad Nabi, the other centurion from Friday, missing the forward guard to a top spinner before Ikram Alikhil was pursued out some incredible work at in reverse square leg.

Madushanka then, at that point, dumbfounded the third twofold wicket of the innings, having Qais Ahmed get at profound square leg and catching Noor Ahmad lbw’s first ball.

Hasaranga then, at that point, wrapped up the innings, excusing Gulbadin Naib lbw, as Afghanistan lost their last eight wickets in the range of five overs.

Sri Lanka too lost wickets two by two in their innings, however essentially united and reconstructed after every one of those difficulties. What that implied was four of their players scored the fifties and pushed them up to 308 for 6 having chosen to bat first.

Asalanka put on the last little details on a gradual process outing, finishing unbeaten on a 74-ball 97. His stand of 50 from 32 close by Hasaranga pushed Sri Lanka’s all out past 300 – a decent recovery after Afghanistan had hoped to choke the center overs.

Alongside Asalanka, Kusal Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama Janith Liyanage struck fifty. A couple of century organizations – the first among Mendis and Samarawickrama and the second among Liyanage and Asalanka – moored the innings before the Asalanka-Hasaranga partnership assisted Sri Lanka with scoring 96 in the last ten overs.

Omarzai was the pick of the Afghan bowlers with figures of 3 for 56, yet three gets were dropped off Fazalhaq Farooqi’s bowling. Farooqi alongside Noor Ahmad and Qais Ahmad wound up with a wicket each.

After Sri Lanka chose for bat, Nissanka searched in great touch, striking three limits in his 17-ball 18. In any case, his surge was stopped when he missed a full and straight one from Omarzai to be out lbw.

In a bad way, Avishka Fernando fell a couple of overs later, edging a back-of-a-length ball calculating across, directly to point – suggestive of his three excusals in the new series against Zimbabwe.

This united Mendis and Samarawickrama, who reconstructed with limits just filling in as a road to deliver the rising tension. Mendis was likewise given an early relief, a delicate opportunity spilled by Gulbadin Naib at short midwicket.

Yet, similarly, as they focused on up the scoring, Samarawickrama hurled one to mid-off positioned on the edge of the circle. Mendis before long pulled one directly to profound square leg the exceptionally next finished. Asalanka and Liyanage then modified before changing gears.

The last option raised his fifty with a hurled six down the ground yet fell one ball later, got at long-on hoping to go large again.

Afghanistan didn’t offer themselves numerous courtesies in the demise overs, dropping both Asalanka and Hasaranga. This implied Asalanka was around to guarantee Sri Lanka had a serious all-out to safeguard, something they did effortlessly eventually.