A few brilliant performances from the Sri Lankan players took them towards their 6th Asia cup win. An amazing half-century by Bhanuka Rajapaksha. In addition, Two top bowlers made the difference for the host nation. Wanindu Hasaranga and pacer Pramod Madhushan defeated Pakistan by 23 runs in the finals. Soon after the win of Lanka over Pakistan, the Afghanistan fans started celebrating the win. In a video shared by the Afghani journalist Abdulhaq Omeri. It was seen that a large number of fans are dancing in joy.
Many people came to their social media handles and congratulated the Lankan Lions for their massive victory. However, Netizens were not behind making fun of their counterpart Pakistan about the performance they had put in the finals. Moreover, Pakistan was trolled for their funny fails that came during their fielding. On one of the Twitter handle of the user, he had stated
“Congratulations Thank You Sri Lanka for making us very Happy. Afghanistan is cheering & celebrating Sr Lanka win,”
Another user trolled Pakistan on an Instagram Post where ICC had posted the winners. The user trolled the other team saying Pakistan couldn’t defeat Sri Lanka even once. While Afghanistan in its first match gave bad bruce to Lankan lions. The exact comment on the post said
“We beat the Asia Cup champions but you lost 2 times”
Under the same post, another social media user had posted a video of Afghanistan citizens dancing and grooving to the music in celebration. The comment of the user read
“This is how Afghanistan people celebrate Sri Lanka’s victory. #AsiaCup2022,”
The Sri Lankans proceeded to the super 4 phase in a very heroic manner. Sri Lanka after being defeated by Afghanistan in the first match went on to play Bangladesh. In the match Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh.
