HIGHLIGHTS : PAK vs SL 5th Match Asia Cup Super 4 HIGHLIGHTS | Sri Lanka won by 2 wkts #pakvssl #5thmatch #highlights In the fifth and most exciting mega match of the Super Four of Asia Cup 2023, once again the two biggest teams in the history of cricket faced each other. This time, Dasun Shanaka's Sri Lankan team was standing in front of Babar Azam's Pakistan team. In a great match, Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat first and invited the Sri Lankan team to bowl first. After that, two veteran opener batsmen of Pakistan entered the field with the intention of scoring runs. Get down. Abdullah Shafiq and Fakhar Zaman had a huge responsibility on their shoulders to give their team an explosive opening start in this great match. Due to rain, overs were reduced in this match and from the beginning this match was played for 45 overs instead of 50 overs but Pakistan's opening pair also failed in this do-or-die match and the bowler Pramod Madhushan, who came to bowl, bowled Fakhar Zaman. Clean bowled. Fakhar Zaman was out after scoring 4 runs in 11 balls. But after Fakhar Zaman was out, Pakistan captain Babar Azam came out to bat and then from here the pair of Abdullah Shafiq and captain Babar Azam took over the Pakistan innings and started batting in amazing style. Both The players were batting amazingly in this semi-final match. Especially Abdullah Shafiq was seen in a different form in this match. But his teammate and Pakistan captain Babar Azam was meanwhile stumped by Dinooth Wallelage at the hands of Kushal Mendis. Babar Azam scored 29 runs in 35 balls. Got out. After dismissing a big batsman like captain Babar Azam, now Sri Lanka's bowling had once again made a comeback in this match. But now after taking the wicket, Mohammad Rizwan came out to bat and meanwhile, Abdullah Shafiq, who was set in the 21st over of the innings, completed his half-century. But soon after completing the half-century, Mathisha Patirana got Abdullah Shafiq caught out by Pramod Madhushan. Abdullah Shafiq was out after scoring 52 runs in 69 balls. Mohammad Haris, who came to bat immediately after him, was also caught out by Mathisha Pathirana on his own ball. Mohammad Haris would be out after scoring 3 runs in 9 balls. Within no time, the Pakistan team had lost its four batsmen for only 108 runs but now Mohammad Nawaz came to the field to support Mohammad Rizwan but Mohammad Nawaz was also clean bowled by Mahesh Tikshana. Mohammad Nawaz was out in just 12 balls. He was out after scoring 12 runs. But after him Iftikhar Ahmed came into the field to bat. But then once again the match was stopped due to rain and due to time loss, more overs were reduced, now this match was 42 overs. But then after the start of the match, Iftikhar Ahmed started building an important partnership with the settled Mohammad Rizwan and handled Pakistan's wavering innings, especially friends, Rizwan was batting aggressively in this match and then in this match, Meanwhile, Rizwan completed his brilliant half-century in this match. His teammate Iftikhar Ahmed was also batting amazingly in this match and soon the partnership of 100 runs was completed between them. But then in the 41st of the innings, How did Iftikhar Ahmed get out to Dasun Shanaka on the ball of Pathirana while trying to play big shots in the over? Iftikhar Ahmed was out after scoring 47 runs in 40 balls. In the very next over, Shadab Khan was also caught out by Pramod Madhushan at the hands of Kushal Mendis. But Rizwan again hit a brilliant four on the last ball and with this the Pakistan team set the target of 252 runs for the Sri Lankan team. But after that, to chase the target of 252 runs from Pakistan, Sri Lanka's two veteran opener batsmen, Pathum Nissanka and Kushal Perera, had a big responsibility on their shoulders to give a great opening start to their team in this great match, but Sri Lanka's openers Batsman Kushal Perera was run out by Shadab Khan in the fourth over of the innings. Kushal Perera was out after scoring 17 runs in 8 balls. After Kushal Perera's early dismissal, Kushal Mendis came out to bat and then Kushal Mendis and Pathum Nissanka batted brilliantly in this match and started hitting fours and sixes on Pakistan's fast bowling and Mohammad came to bowl the 8th over of the innings. In this over of Wasim Junior, Kushal Mendis and Nissanka together hit three brilliant fours. Pakistan captain Babar Azam was now looking worried. Gradually the pressure was increasing on Pakistan's bowling. But then in the 14th over of the innings, Pathum Nissanka was caught out by Shadab Khan on his own ball. Pathum Nissanka was out after scoring 29 runs in 44 balls.