48.2 overs Afghanistan 228 (Gurbaz 68, Rahmat 58, Rajitha 3-31) vs Sri Lanka

As Rajitha took 3 for 31 from his nine overs, and the spinners shared four wickets between them, Afghanistan were dismissed for 228 with 10 balls left unused. Mohammad Nabi played a decent late hand, striking two sixes and two fours in his 34-ball 41. But he started running out of partners and had to take greater risks, and he eventually holed out in the 48th over.

Nabi was the last of Rajitha's victims. Although he struck Rajitha for a six previous ball, the bowler slowed up the next delivery, had him mistime the shot, and send a catch to long off, where Dhananjaya de Silva held on to a low one. In Rajitha's previous over, he had had Rashid Khan hit a slower one in the air to sweeper cover, before Mujeeb Ur Rahman top edged his second ball to the keeper.

Rajitha got his rewards in the back end of the innings, but he had bowled beautifully with the new ball. His first over cost just one run, his second was a maiden, and he conceded just 10 in his opening five-over spell. All up, he conceded only two boundaries (a six and a four) in the 54 legal deliveries he send down.

Sri Lanka's spinners were not quite so dominant, particularly in the first half of the innings, when Gurbaz was producing a typically belligerent innings, and Rahmat was building himself to another score. Those batters put on 113 for the second wicket off 133 deliveries.

Gurbaz hit four sixes in the arc between long-off and cow corner - some of these being release shots after pressure had been built up. After Theekshana had him caught at long off trying to hit his fifth, though, some of the oomph went out of Afghanistan's innings, and Sri Lanka's spinners dominated the next 10 overs.

Theekshana got another wicket - that of Najibullah Zadran - and finished with 2 for 49 from his 10. Hasaranga and de Silva claimed a wicket apiece and went for less than 40 from their full quotas.