{"id":4463,"date":"2022-09-12T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=245109"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:26:36","slug":"asia-cup-finals-it-is-a-wonderful-moment-to-play-one-of-my-best-innings-bhanuka-rajapaksa-cheers-up-after-leadings-the-hosts-to-a-miracle-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-finals-it-is-a-wonderful-moment-to-play-one-of-my-best-innings-bhanuka-rajapaksa-cheers-up-after-leadings-the-hosts-to-a-miracle-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup Finals: \u201cIt is a wonderful moment to play one of my best innings,\u201d Bhanuka Rajapaksa cheers up after leadings the hosts to a miracle win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by a margin of 23 runs to win the Asia Cup for the\u00a0<strong>sixth time<\/strong>. Bhanuka Rajapaksa\u2019s (71* off 45) and Wanindu Hasaranga\u2019s (36 off 21) counter-attacking batting performance, which raised Sri Lanka from 58\/5 and set Pakistan a target of 171, proved to be too much for Babar Azam and company on sunday evening. For the first time since April 2014, Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup with five straight wins after being bowling Pakistan out for 147 in 20 overs in the finale clash.<\/p>\n<p>Bhanuka Rajapaksa, who led Sri Lanka to victory in the Asia Cup final, considered his effort, which included 71* off 45 balls, to be among his greatest ever because it helped the team\u2019s innings get going and move them closer to a winning score. Before Rajapaksa intervened and led his team to victory, the hosts were facing a low total of 58 for 5 in the ninth over.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cOf course it\u2019s a wonderful moment and one of the best innings that I\u2019ve played in a very short period of time,\u201d Rajapaksa said in the post-match press conference. The left-hander said he and the team wanted to show their aggression in the game and hoped to ride on this success leading to the World Cup next month.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\u201cWe wanted to show the world\u2026 A couple of decades back, we had some sort of aggression in our side. And we wanted to create those moments again. I think as a unit we\u2019re doing it fantastically well at the moment and we just want to look forward to the World Cup as well and to keep up this momentum,\u201d Rajapaksa said.<\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BhanukaRajapak3\/status\/1569042557149102081<\/div>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cAs a nation, I think it is a great win with all the crises happening back home. These are tough times for Sri Lankans and we are glad and we hope we brought some smiles to their faces,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by a margin of 23 runs to win the Asia Cup for the\u00a0sixth time. Bhanuka Rajapaksa\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,2268,737],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-bhanuka-rajapaksa","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}