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Shanaka happy with bowlers for today’s final – By Dhammika Ratnaweera Source : sundayobserver Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka said that his team has got the bowlers to deliver in today’s Asia Cup cricket final against Pakistan in Dubai. “Our bowling combination starting with left arm fast bowling, the off-spinner, leg spinner and variations can challenge any kind of batting line-up and that is a good advantage for us. Our spinners and pacemen have proved their ability”, said Shanaka. He said beating Pakistan in the last Super Four match on Friday gave the team good momentum to go forward in the final. Shanaka also said that picking up wickets with the new ball will be crucial in the final. Sri Lanka began their Asia Cup 2022 campaign losing to Afghanistan but they haven’t looked back since completing a stunning win over Bangladesh in a must-win group-stage match. Sri Lanka were not ...

Australia pulls off breathtaking win over Pakistan to reach final – by Sunil Thenabadu (Sports editor – eLanka) Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade combined together with an unbeaten 81 run partnership for the sixth wicket when defeat was staring at them to direct Australia to a fantastic five-wicket win to play New Zealand on Sunday who also won in spectacular fashion in an identical impossible run chase in pursuit against favourites England..In both games played to almost full houses the supporters of favourites England more particularly Pakistan were made speechless and dumfounded.. Both Stoinis and Wade played some well-calculated shots and took the game deep to launch an assault late in the run-chase against Pakistan pacers. Wade finished the game with three back-to-back sixes off Shaheen Shah Afridi two of them the last two balls of the penultimate over scooping over deep fine leg to finish the game with an ...