Stats – A rare bat-first win in Dubai, and Sri Lanka's remarkable comeback

All the statistical highlights from Sri Lanka’s 2022 Asia Cup win

Sampath Bandarupalli12-Sep-20223:18

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4/18 – Win-loss record of teams batting first in men’s T20Is in Dubai since the start of 2021. Sri Lanka’s total of 170 for 6 was the lowest among the four instances of teams successfully defending in Dubai in the last 12 months.0 – Previous instances of Sri Lanka winning a men’s T20I after losing their first five wickets inside ten overs when batting first. Before the 2022 Asia Cup final, only once did Sri Lanka win a T20I – batting first or second – despite losing half their side in fewer than 8.5 overs (as was the case on Sunday) – against Australia in 2017, when they lost their top five within 4.3 overs.Related

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2013-14 – Last time Sri Lanka won five consecutive men’s T20Is before this Asia Cup was in the 2013-14 season. They won five T20Is in succession before losing to England in the group phase of the 2014 T20 World Cup.3 – Sri Lanka is only the third team to win a men’s T20I final while defending a total [among the 13 finals involving two Full-Member teams]. India won by five runs against Pakistan in the 2007 T20 World Cup final, while West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs in the 2012 T20 World Cup final.5 – Consecutive wins for Sri Lanka in T20Is against Pakistan, all with Dasun Shanaka as captain. Shanaka also led them to a 3-0 series win in 2019. Before this winning run, Sri Lanka had only five T20I wins against Pakistan in 18 meetings.Sri Lanka had bowled Pakistan out four times in this five-match winning streak but had done it only twice in the first 18 games against them.2:05

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2 – Fifty-plus partnerships for Sri Lanka in the final, after losing their fifth wicket. It is only the third instance in men’s T20Is where a team had two fifty-plus stands for the last five wickets. Pakistan had done it against Sri Lanka in 2015 and Norway against Switzerland earlier this year.71* – Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s unbeaten innings of 71 is the highest individual score while batting at No. 5 or lower in a men’s T20I knockout game. The previous highest was 68 by Tamoor Sajjad of Qatar while batting at No. 6 against Saudi Arabia in the final of the 2019 Western Region T20.2 – Players with 30-plus runs and three-plus wickets in a men’s T20I knockout between two Full-Member nations. Carlos Brathwaite is the only player to have achieved this double before Wanindu Hasaranga in this match. Brathwaite scored 34* and took three wickets in the 2016 T20 World Cup final against England.