Sri Lankan players are playing impactful innings, almost everyone is contributing: Deep Dasgupta

In the last few innings that the Lankans have played, a pattern has been detected that the players are playing with absolute freedom and not with the baggage of contributing a significant amount of runs. India under Rohit Sharma wanted to play that brand of cricket and was playing at times but in the Asia Cup, under some pressure, that tactic completely disappeared. 

Deep Dasgupta, former India international believes these small innings that almost all the Sri Lankan players are playing are contributing to their success in the last few T20Is. Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis gave Lanka a very good start with an opening partnership of 97 runs but still with 77 runs to chase, the boys held their nerves and played some good cricket to take the team home.

“Sri Lanka played really well and they got together as a team. Even today, two of the players scored 50 while the others played impactful innings,” said Dasgupta on 'BatBricks7 presents Run Ki Runneeti' on CricTracker.

The 45-year-old added, “All of these innings come together. If you think about it, this is a really, really good unit. Sri Lanka won the match while chasing in the last three matches and as you can see, almost everyone has contributed. I think we have got to give credit to Sri Lanka.”

India still got a thin chance to qualify for the finals of Asia Cup

With back-to-back losses in the hands of Pakistan and Sri Lanka, India is on the verge of getting knocked out of the Asia Cup. However, there still remains a thin chance for India to qualify for the finals of the Asia Cup.

In order to do so, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka will have to defeat Pakistan in their respective matches. Meanwhile, India will have to beat Afghanistan by a huge margin. In such a scenario, India will qualify for the finals against Sri Lanka at Dubai International stadium.