Sri Lankan Lions Vs Afghanistan Pathans Eliminator 15 March 2025

Eliminator • Miraj International Cricket Stadium • Rajasthan

Sri Lankan Lions

230/3 (20)

Afghanistan Pathans

204/7 (20)

SLL won by 26 runs

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Stats

Playing XI

Date & Time

15 Mar, 06:30 PM IST

Venue

Miraj International Cricket Stadium, Rajasthan

TV/Streaming

Disney Hotstar, Fancode

Match

Eliminator,

Toss

Sri Lankan Lions elected to bat

Pitch Report

We are playing on pitch number 8. Off side boundary 65 metres while leg side boundary 70 metres. The pitch is rock hard and even sprinkling on grass. There are few spots of crustiness and grass. The real dry area is near the popping crease which is a half volley. It will be a field day for the batters, a tough day for the bowlers. It's all about holding your nerves in a knockout game.

1st Innings

158Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

144.89Avg SR

2nd Innings

147Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

140.32Avg SR

Playing XILineups Out

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

SLL

1- 0

AFGP

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Sri Lankan Lions

Afghanistan Pathans

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Asghar Afghan

AFGP . ALL

136 Runs

3 Matches

Mausib Khan

AFGP . BAT

64 Runs

3 Matches

Shoaib Khan

AFGP . WK

63 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Vikum Sanjaya

SLL . BOWL

8 Wkts

3 Matches

Upul Indrasiri

SLL . BOWL

7 Wkts

3 Matches

Thisara Perera

SLL . ALL

4 Wkts

3 Matches

Playing XILineups Out

Venue Details

Miraj International Cricket Stadium, Rajasthan

1st Innings

158Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

144.89Avg SR

2nd Innings

147Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

140.32Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

33%Bat First Bowl First67%

Team Batting First

67%Wins Losses33%

Recent Matches on venue

Match 7 • Mar 13 • Asian Legends League

ANS 93/8 (10)

SLL 87/6 (10)

ANS won by 6 runs

vs live score

Match 5 • Mar 12 • Asian Legends League

SLL 169/9 (20)

AFGP 156/10 (19.1)

SLL won by 13 runs

vs live score

Match 4 • Mar 11 • Asian Legends League

IR 161/10 (19.5)

SLL 115/10 (19.2)

IR won by 46 runs

vs live score

Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

Sri Lankan Lions

Afghanistan Pathans

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

SLL

1- 0

AFGP

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

123

Average Score

171

169/9

Highest Score

216/3

87/6

Lowest Score

142/9

SLL

AFGP

Info

Sri Lankan Lions

230/3 (20)

Batters

Leo Fransisco

40.00

c A Afghan b M Ansari

Tillakaratne Dilshan

100.00

c VS Rajawat b M Ansari

Mevan Fernando

144.64

Not out

Lasith Lakshan

126.67

runout (VS Rajawat / Shabir Noori)

Thisara Perera

(C)

108

300.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 11.5)

230/3

Did not Bat

Raveen Sayer, Lahiru Gamage, Malinda Pushpakumara, Vikum Sanjaya, Upul Indrasiri, Chamikara Edirisinghe

Bowlers

EXT

Sahejadkhan Pathan

10.50

Munis Ansari

10.00

Ayan Khan

16.25

Farman Ahmed

7.00

Ashraf Pathan

11.00

Asghar Afghan

18.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Leo Fransisco

c A Afghan b M Ansari

1-3

1.2

Tillakaratne Dilshan

c VS Rajawat b M Ansari

2-16

3.1

Lasith Lakshan

runout (VS Rajawat / Shabir Noori)

3-75

9.4

Afghanistan Pathans

204/7 (20)

Batters

Mausib Khan

187.50

b PM Pushpakumara

Shabir Noori

129.41

b JRMVB Sanjaya

Shoaib Khan

0.00

c PM Pushpakumara b SADU Indrasiri

Ayan Khan

136.84

c RS Sayer b PM Pushpakumara

Asghar Afghan

(C)

225.81

c WWWL Lakshan b JRMVB Sanjaya

Asad Pathan

210.00

b JRMVB Sanjaya

Farman Ahmed

116.67

b SADU Indrasiri

Vikram Singh

120.00

Not out

Sahejadkhan Pathan *

66.67

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 1, W: 6)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 10.2)

204/7

Did not Bat

Munis Ansari, Ashraf Pathan

Bowlers

EXT

Vikum Sanjaya

8.00

Malinda Pushpakumara

7.75

Upul Indrasiri

9.50

Tillakaratne Dilshan

11.00

Lahiru Gamage

8.33

Thisara Perera

18.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Mausib Khan

b PM Pushpakumara

1-18

1.4

Shoaib Khan

c PM Pushpakumara b SADU Indrasiri

2-19

2.2

Shabir Noori

b JRMVB Sanjaya

3-65

7.2

Ayan Khan

c RS Sayer b PM Pushpakumara

4-142

14.1

Asghar Afghan

c WWWL Lakshan b JRMVB Sanjaya

5-189

17.3

Asad Pathan

b JRMVB Sanjaya

6-194

17.6

Farman Ahmed

b SADU Indrasiri

7-197

19.1

Match Info

Date & Time

15 Mar, 06:30 PM IST

Venue

Miraj International Cricket Stadium, Rajasthan

TV/Streaming

Disney Hotstar, Fancode

Match

Eliminator,

Toss

Sri Lankan Lions elected to bat

0 1wd 2 6 0 1wd 6 6

Over 17

Runs: 22

0 1 W 4 1 W

Over 18

Runs: 6

0 1 0 1 1 0

Over 19

Runs: 3

W 0 1 1 2 4

Over 20

Runs: 8

All Overs

Commentary

That brings us to the end of our coverage for this Asian Legend's League contest. The eliminator is done and dusted and we move to Qualifier 1 slated to be played tomorrow. Like always it was a pleasure to be part of Sportskeeda's commentary for today's game. Up until the next time, this is myself (Arya Sekhar Chakraborty) signing off also on behalf of my fellow commentator and good mate Lavil Saldanha. Goodnight fellas.

Thisara Perera is the Player of the Match, here is what he had to say: First of all its an awesome feeling when you are in a winning in a big game like this. Coming back to the six sixes, I struck five sixes and a four during my ODI career but hitting six sixes is special. When I jump to the field, I don't think about others. I always stay like this in pressure situation. I felt I could hit my hundred in the last over. Dream came true for me as I scored my 2nd T20 century. An awesome feeling to be honest. So I had to thank Mewan, I told him to play normal game and rotate the strike. Whatever the situation don't give up. Me and Dilshan told Mewan that you are the anchor and we guys can play around you. We were one batter shorter so we wanted to bat first and put up a good score to put them under pressure. We had only five batters, all others were bowlers.

Asghar Afghan (captain, Afghanistan Pathans): Congratulations to them, Thisara played very well. We could have chased this down but then this is cricket. Enjoyed the tournament, the ground was very well. Hopefully we come here again to play

Sri Lanka Lions won by 26 runs

Thisara Perera 108*(36) | Vikum Sanjaya 3/32(4)
Asghar Afghan 70(31) | Munis Ansari 2/40(4)

The Afghanistan Pathans on the back of a splendid knock from the blade of Asghar Afghan ran the Sri Lanka Lions close but the score of 230 proved to be a bit too much for the Pathana as the Lions won the match by runs and will now play the winners of the first qualifier which will be held tomorrow. Mausib Khan provided a blistering start with a 16 run opening over which paved the way for the other batters to follow the template.

However they lost the plot in the second over itself, losing two quick wickets of Mausib and Shoaib Khan to put them on the backfoot. Ayan Khan was the next man in and tried to complement Shabir Noori but the rate kept climbing, putting further pressure on the rest of the batters coming in. It was the captain Asghar Afghan who turned the game on its head with a blistering knock of 70 which came in just 31 deliveries.

He batted superbly and gave a realistic chance to the Pathans to chase this down. He smashed as many as eight sixes during his knock and brought the equation down to 42 required off the last three overs. However his wicket in the 18th over turned out to be the final nail in the coffin as the lower order couldn't quite cope up with the required rate. Eventually the Sri Lanka Lions won the match by 26 runs with Vikum Sanjaya finishing as the leading wicket taker with figures of 3/32.

overs

204 /7 score

7 runs

Vikram Singh *

6 (5)

Sahejadkhan Pathan

2 (3)

Upul Indrasiri

2 /38

19.6

Upul Indrasiri to Shezad Phathan, FOUR! DOESN'T MATTER, SRI LANKAN LIONS WIN! Full and on the line of the leg stump, Shezad gets an inside edge that races down to deep fine leg for a boundary to end the chase. Sri Lankan Lions win by 26 runs and advance into Qualifier 2!

19.5

Upul Indrasiri to Shezad Phathan, back of a length delivery outside the off stump. Shezad gets a leading edge that drops safe. They take a brace

19.4

Upul Indrasiri to Vikram Rajawat, length delivery on the line of the off stump. Played towards deep midwicket for a single

19.3

Upul Indrasiri to Shezad Phathan, full and outside the off stump. Hit down to long off for a single

19.2

Upul Indrasiri to Shezad Phathan, length delivery on the line of the off stump. Knocked towards square leg

Sahejad Khan, RHB comes out to the crease.

19.1

Upul Indrasiri to Farman Khan, BOWLED! Length delivery on the line of the off stump, Farman comes down the track and looks to send it over the boundary but misses and has his off stump pegged back

That's a tremendous over from Lahiru Gamage, just three runs coming off that over and with 34 runs required off 6 deliveries, it is safe to say that the Sri Lanka Lions have pocketed the game.

overs

197 /6 score