[WATCH] Nuwan Thusara foxes Rashid Khan with slow yorker during SL vs AFG Asia Cup 2025 clash
Watch the video where the Sri Lanka right-arm pacer, Nuwan Thusara, foxes the Afghanistan captain, Rashid Khan, with a slower yorker at the stumps during the SL vs AFG clash in the Men's T20 Asia Cup 2025.
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Afghanistan came into their last group-stage clash of the Men’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 with lots of expectation. It was a do-or-die clash for the Rashid Khan-led side, who needed to win the game to qualify for the Super 4 stage of the tournament after losing their last clash against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi. And they got what they wanted.
Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to bat first on a surface he expected to get slow in the second innings. Moreover, the runs on the board will also be vital in a crucial encounter. They also decided to bring Mujeeb Ur Rahman into the playing eleven for the fixture. But Afghanistan couldn’t bat well at all.
They found themselves 79/6 in 12.1 overs before Rashid Khan and Mohammed Nabi got a good stand of 35 runs for the seventh wicket. The expectation was to get runs off the captain, who ended with 24 runs in 23 balls. By the time he got out, they were 114/7 in 17.1 overs.
Watch: Nuwan Thusara dismisses Rashid Khan with slow yorker in Asia Cup 2025
On the opening ball of the 18th over, Nuwan Thusara went with a slower yorker at the stumps as Rashid looked to sweep the ball that drifted under his bat to hit the stumps. The batter couldn’t get a bat on the ball as the bowler started to appeal, only for the umpire to finger the stumps being broken with the slower delivery.
Mohammed Nabi, however, smashed five successive sixes on the last over against Dunith Wellalage to celebrate the joint fastest T20I fifty for Afghanistan in 20 balls as he pushed the side to 169/8 in their allotted 20 overs of the first innings. Thusara ended with fine figures of 4/18 in four overs.
It was the third-highest total for a full-member side after losing six wickets for under 80 in a Men’s T20I game, after Australia got bundled out for 178 against South Africa in Darwin last month, and West Indies’ 170/8 vs England in Barbados three years ago.
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