Hashmatullah Shahidi:
“Today was a bad day for our batters, but it happens in cricket. It was a good batting wicket, but we lost early wickets because of bad shot selection. We need to improve in our batting, we have a series with Bangladesh so we will work harder. Ibrahim has been doing very well in the past year, so I hope he continues. The positives were definitely Ibrahim and some of the bowlers as well.”
Dasun Shanaka:
“After going down 1-0 in the series it was very special to wrap it up today. Dimuth has been outstanding over the last few years, so he has a lot more to offer Sri Lanka Cricket. These couple of games we played as a group, and showed exactly what we could do. Especially Chameera and Kumara how they started today, especially how the wicket was. They showed a lot of character, and I hope they will carry this on to the qualifiers.”
Player of the Match and Player of the Series awards go to Dushmantha Chameera: “Feel happy to be back after surgery. I worked hard on my fitness and bowling. First match there was a little bit of pressure having played after 10 months, but I was okay after the first over and got into my rhythm.”
Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan Highlights today. 3rd ODI, Wednesday 7-6-2023, Afghanistan tour of Sri Lanka 2023, Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota.
Toss: Afghanistan chose to bat.
Sri Lanka team: Dimuth Karunaratne, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Charith Asalanka, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushmantha Chameera, Lahiru Kumara
Afghanistan team: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Rashid Khan, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Gulbadin Naib, Farid Malik
Head to Head In ODI’s: 9
Sri Lanka Won: 5
Afghanistan Won: 3
Sri Lanka ODI Rankings: 9th
Afghanistan ODI Rankings: 8th
Form guide
(Last five matches, most recent first)
Sri Lanka WLLLL
Afghanistan LWLWW
Match Timings: 4:00 AM GMT | 9:30 AM Local
Umpires – Nitin Menon, Ruchira Palliyaguruge
TV Umpire – Michael Gough
Match Referee – Ranjan Madugalle
Reserve Umpire – Prageeth Rambukwella
Match number – ODI no. 4583
