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Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Stalled

1-2

Scoreline for the last five overs, which has included four maidens

Chipping in

2011

Suranga Lakmal has taken at least one wicket for SL in the last 12 ODIs he's played. The last time he went wicketless was in Aug 2011 v Australia

Need a captain's innings

2

No. of fifties by Mohammad Nabi in chases for Afghanistan

Mendis menace

14.7

Ajantha Mendis' strike-rate in the Asia Cup. He has taken 22 wickets in 7 matches, with two five-fors

Have practice

76

No. of times Sri Lanka have defended a score under 255

The finisher

4

Angelo Mathews has remained unbeaten four times in his last five ODIs

Chasing's no problem

13

Afghanistan have won 13 out of 20 ODIs fielding first

Consistent performer

2

Only two times in the ten ODIs he has played has Dawlat Zadran not contributed with a wicket

Sloppy again

23-2

Sri Lanka could not reverse their issues with the batting powerplay in this Asia Cup.

Batting Powerplay blues

2

In both their previous Asia Cup games, Sri Lanka have lost two wickets in the batting powerplay. Against Pakistan they scored 29 and against India 30

Another golden run

For the second time since 2013, Sangakkara has hit fifty-plus scores in four consecutive ODI innings. Only the second SL batsman after Jayasuriya to do this twice.

Starts and stops

26.78

Dinesh Chandimal's batting average over the past 12 months, with only two fifties