T20 World Cup: Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan by six wickets to keep semi-final hopes alive

Sri Lanka kept their semi-final hopes live arsenic they bushed Afghanistan

Sri Lanka kept their semi-final hopes live with a six-wicket triumph implicit Afghanistan astatine the Men's T20 World Cup successful Brisbane.

Dhananjaya de Silva's unbeaten 66 past steered Sri Lanka to their people with 9 balls to spare astatine the Gabba.

Afghanistan, whose 2 erstwhile games were washed out, person been eliminated.

Sri Lanka request to bushed England and for Afghanistan to bushed Australia successful bid to suffice for the semis.

After winning the flip and choosing to bat, Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Usman Ghani added 42 for the archetypal wicket arsenic they capitalised connected immoderate escaped bowling and fielding errors.

But the instauration of Hasaranga changed the people of the crippled arsenic helium applied the unit and did not concede a bound successful 4 overs.

It was a below-par full and connected a transportation with ample boundaries, Sri Lanka made airy enactment of the chase.

De Silva eased the nerves aft opener Pathum Nissanka fell early, batting calmly and eliminating the menace of Afghanistan spinners Rashid Khan and Mujeeb ur-Rahman, who took 2 wickets each.

Afghanistan play Australia successful Adelaide connected Thursday astatine 08:00 GMT, portion Sri Lanka look England successful Sydney connected Saturday astatine 08:00.

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