Things are heating ahead of a Bangladesh-Sri Lanka game in the 2022 Asia Cup, an urgent match for both teams, with players from both sides, past and present, taking pot shots at the opposition. Following comments from Bangladesh team director and former captain Khalid Mahmood on the eve of the match that the Sri Lankan team did not have bowlers of note, that was a reaction to Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka, who played Bangladesh in the first week. Speaking of attack, former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene has swung into action. He tweeted on Thursday morning:

Today’s match will decide which of the two teams will go from Group B to Super 4

Today’s match will decide which of the two teams will advance from Group B to Super 4 with Afghanistan having already defeated both. Sri Lanka lost to Afghanistan to open the tournament, being bowled out for 105 before Afghanistan chased down the target with eight wickets and 59 balls to spare. Later that route, looking forward to a must-win game for his team, Shanaka said:

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“Afghanistan has a world-class bowling attack. [But] we know that Fiz (Mustafizur Rahman) is a good bowler. Shakib (Al Hasan) is a world-class bowler. But apart from him, there is no world-class bowler on the side. So if we compare with Afghanistan, Bangladesh is an easy opponent.”

Bangladesh in turn was beaten by Afghanistan by seven wickets two days earlier to set up straight knockouts with Sri Lanka. After this Mahmood was tough on his team’s batsmen, but it also took time to get going on Shanaka. “I don’t know why Dasun made this remark.

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“Afghanistan has a better team. We have only two bowlers in our line-up, but I don’t see any bowlers in Sri Lanka. At least Bangladesh has world-class bowlers like Mustafiz and Shakib,” he said. They don’t even have him.”