Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Bronze Medal: Sri Lanka has won the bronze medal in the men’s cricket tournament of the Asian Games 2026. In the bronze medal match played on 3 October, Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh badly by 63 runs. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 165 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Bangladesh team collapsed on the score of 102 runs in 17.3 overs. With this victory, Sri Lanka has won the bronze medal, while Bangladesh was left empty handed. Sri Lanka had lost to the Indian team by 124 runs in the semi-finals, due to which they had to play the bronze medal match. At the same time, Bangladesh had lost to Pakistan in the semi-finals. In such a situation, the bronze medal match was played between these two teams.
How did Sri Lanka win the match?
In this match, the Sri Lankan team came to bat first. Sri Lanka had a very bad start. Sri Lankan team had lost 4 wickets on the score of just 21. After this, captain Sahan Arachchige and Ashen Bandara took charge. There was a partnership of 33 runs between them. After this Tharindu Ratnayake took over the innings. He played a blazing inning of 65 runs in just 32 balls, in which he hit 7 fours and 5 sixes. On this basis Sri Lanka scored 165 runs. For Bangladesh, Mehdi Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman and Saif Hasan took 2-2 wickets, while Rishad Hussain and Alis Al Islam took 1-1 wicket.
Bangladesh’s shameful batting
The Bangladeshi team, which was chasing the score of 166 runs, had a very bad start. Top-3 batsmen of Bangladesh were out without opening the account. Openers Saif Hasan, Tanjeed Hasan and captain Liton Das were out without opening the account. Bangladesh had lost 4 wickets on the score of just 18 runs, after which the team could not make a comeback in the match. Nasum Ahmed scored the most for Bangladesh. Coming at number 9, he scored 26 runs in 28 balls with the help of 2 fours and a six. Apart from them, Yaril Ali scored 21 runs in 16 balls and Parvez Hussain Emon scored 20 runs in 26 balls. Apart from this, only Tauheed Hridaya (11) and Rishad Hussain (10) could touch double figures.
Excellent bowling by Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan bowlers performed excellently in this match. For Sri Lanka, Nuwan Thushara, Tharindu Ratnayake, Vijayakanth Vyaskanth and Vanuja Sahan took 2 wickets each. At the same time, captain Sahan Arachchige and Dushan Hemantha also got 1 wicket each. On this basis, Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh and won the bronze medal.