2.07pm And that brings about an anti-climactic end to the Sri Lankan innings! In the end Afghanistan will need 269 to win, though Sri Lanka would have undoubtedly wanted more heading into the final over. Charith Asalanka, whose 95-ball 91 had anchored the Lankan effort, was run out off the first ball of the final over meaning they could get only five off it. On the whole though, Sri Lanka will be fairly pleased to have even got that much after the Afghan seamers had troubled them early on, and then the spinners had looked to throttle the middle overs. It took a 99-run fifth wicket stand between Asalanka and Dhananjaya de Silva (51) to rescue Sri Lanka from 84 for 4, with Asalanka stringing together stands with Dasun Shanaka and Dushan Hemantha to push the total along. For the visitors, each of the six bowlers used picked up at least a wicket, though Mujeeb Ur Rahman was the only one that was bowled out. The fact that Azmatullah Omarzai in particular, who picked up 1 for 35, only bowled eight overs might been seen as a misstep. Join Shashwat for the start of the chase in about 30 minutes or so.

And it gets worse for Sri Lanka, as it turns out Asalanka had miscounted the deliveries in the penultimate over, hence that ill-advised single.

Mayur: "Why did they take a single off that last ball? Sometimes the smartness in cricketers goes missing." Yup, amazing how one sub-optimal decision can have such a profound domino effect.

Afghanistan penalised for their slow over rate. They now must have 5 inside the circle

Ravin: "That poor LBW decision cost SL two dot balls which might have an impact in the game. ICC needs to look into changing the laws which allows the runs scored off a ball which the umpire has given out and successfully referred "

DPN: "What's going on with Omarzai and Fareed Ahmed? Why are they not bowling " Here's Fareed.

Kanishka: "AFG have to complete their 50overs by 1.30 P.M. isn't it??" yup, but there have been two injury stoppages. Even so, they are a few overs behind.