Afghanistan dump holders Sri Lanka out of Asian Games cricket

They beat the defending champs by eight runs to book a semifinal against Pakistan.

HANGZHOU: Gulbadin Naib and Qais Ahmad grabbed three wickets apiece as a battling Afghanistan beat defending champions Sri Lanka by eight runs today to book an Asian Games semifinal against Pakistan.

Twenty20 cricket has been played at the Asian Games twice before, at Guangzhou 2010 and Incheon 2014, with Afghanistan runners-up both times, to Bangladesh and then Sri Lanka. The uneven pitch also proved a problem though for Sri Lanka, with boundaries hard to come by and no-one able to get going.

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