Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan Group 1 T20 World Cup 2016

The super10 stage matches are going in ICC T20 World Cup 2016. Two groups are formed having 5 teams each Group 1 and 2. We have seen matches where New Zealand defended a low score and a Match where West Indies chase down a big total of 183 runs in just 19th over. So no one can predict the winning team in the tournament. Today on 17th March in Men category we have only one Match from Group 1 Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan of T20 World Cup 2016 which will be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. The match will start at 7:30 pm.

Preview of the Match :

Afghanistan team came from the qualifier round where they won all the 3 qualifying matches and became the participant of the super10 round of the tournament. All the players of them are playing good cricket. In the leading run scorer table their batsman Mohammad Shahzad is on the second position scored 142 runs in just 3 matches.

Sri Lanka will play their first match of the World T20 2016 and it will against a small Asian team. The recent Asia cup tournament was not good for Sri Lanka only won 1 matches out of four and didn’t qualify to the finals of the tournament. Hope they have learnt a lot from their mistakes done in the past and will not take this upcoming match lightly since Afghanistan looking good and can surprise us all today.

In the Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan match, the match will start under the stars so the toss will be very crucial as due factor came into play in the second innings. If we look onto the previous 5 games of both the team, Sri Lanka won only 1 game where Afghanistan won all their 5 games. So the confidence of the Afghani players will be high and they will try to maintain their winning anthem on in this match too where captain Angelo Mathews will look forward for their first win of the T20 World Cup to gain all the boost and confidence they required.

Here is the squads of both the teams :-

Afghanistan Squad :-

1. Asghar Stanikzai (Captain)
2. Noor Ali Zadran
3. Mohammad Shahzad
4. Usman Ghani
5. Mohammad Nabi
6. Karim Sadiq
7. Shafiqullah
8. Rashid Khan
9. Amir Hamza
10. Dawlat Zadran
11. Shapoor Zadran
12. Gulbadin Naib
13. Samiullah Shenwari
14. Najibullah Zadran
15. Yamin Ahmadzai

Sri Lanka Squad :-

1. Lasith Malinga
2. Angelo Mathews (Captain)
3. Dinesh Chandimal (wk)
4. Tillakaratne Dilshan
5. Niroshan Dickwella (wk)
6. Shehan Jayasuriya
7. Milinda Siriwardena
8. Dasun Shanaka
9. Chamara Kapugedera
10. Nuwan Kulasekara
11. Dushmantha Chameera
12. Thisara Perera
13. Sachithra Senanayake
14. Rangana Herath
15. Jeffrey Vandersay

Here is the Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan T20 World Cup 2016 Match Detail :-

Match 4th, Group 1, Super10
	Vs
Venue	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date	17th March 2016
Time	7:30 pm (Local Time)
Toss	Afghanistan won the toss and opted to bat first

The Match updates will be shown here..

Match Result : Sri Lanka won the match by 6 wickets.

Man of the Match : Dilshan

Match Scorecard :-