ODI World Cup 2023: 3 players with most runs in the history of Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan clashes

Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka could be a hard task for batters to score runs, so let’s take a look at top batters from the matches between these two teams.

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Afghanistan is looking strong in this world cup by beating Pakistan and England, today this challenge is going to show up in front of Sri Lanka who has beaten England in the last game. Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka is going to take place at MCA Pune. both Asian teams have performed Equally well in this tournament. Afghanistan has won 2 out of five games and sitting at number seven, Sri Lanka is holding its fifth position with two wins in five games. Both teams have chances to qualify for the semifinals but from here they have to win almost every game to make it through but today only one team’s going to take a step forward in that journey and the other will be just enjoying it’s group stage matches. 

Both teams have faced each other in 11 ODI games where Sri Lanka has prevailed over Afghanistan in 7 games and Afghanistan has won three out of them. Last time when both teams faced each other in this setup Sri Lanka has clinched a thriller with two runs in Asia this year. In world cups there were only two games played between these two teams and Sri Lanka has overpowered Afghanistan in both of them. There were many players from both sides who became the reason for their team’s dominance over the other. Both teams mostly win games at the expense of their bowlers, so it will be interesting to see which batter has stood out in these bowling dominated teams. So let’s see the top three batters of this rivalry. 

Ibrahim Zadran 

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Explosive opener of Afghanistan Ibrahim Zadran is the highest run scorer in this list. He has played seven games against Sri Lanka from last year where he scored 459 runs with an average of 65.57 which include 2 tons. last year at Pallekele while batting first against Sri Lanka Zadran smashed 162 runs in just 138 balls which is the highest score for Afghanistan in ODIs.   Zadran is the only Afghani batter who scored centuries in this list. Ibrahim is in decent form in this World cup cup also he has made 173 runs in five games and the way he enjoys batting against Sri Lankan team, he can add some more runs in his bucket.   

Rahmat Shah

Afghanistan’s batting allrounder Rahmat Shah has scored 349 runs in 9 games which he played between 2018 to 2023. He batted with an average of 38.77 and made 4 fifty plus scores. Rahmat Shah is the highest run scorer for Afghanistan in ODIs. he has 3419 runs in 104 games between 2013 to 2023. He has 29 fifty plus scores which is highest for Afghanistan in this Format five of them are triple digit scores. In this world cup he has scored 150 runs in five games and still there are many games left to add more runs in his career. He could help Afghanistan to handle Sri Lankan bowlers. 

Pathum Nissanka

Sri Lankan opening batter Pathum Nissanka has scored 296 runs in 7 games from last year. He batted with the average of 49.33 and scored two half centuries. Pathum is having a great world cup, he owns 243 runs in five games. He has batted with a terrific average of 60.75 and has four fifty plus scores. In the last game against England he scored unbeaten 77 runs which later led Sri Lanka to win the game. He could be the biggest threat for Afghanistan in today’s game. 

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