Asia Cup Final: India To Lock Horns With Sri Lanka Today

India will face Sri Lanka in the high-voltage final match of the Asia Cup. The two teams will fight for the title today Sunday (17 September) at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The match will start at 3:30 pm Bangladesh time.

Sri Lanka holds the current champion title of the Asia Cup. But this time compared to Sri Lanka, the Indian team is full of stars. There is no shortage of star players in the team to attract world cricket. India is a very strong team. As such, India will enter the field as the clear favorite in today's Asia Cup. On the other hand, the Lankans made it to the final by defeating Bangladesh and powerful Pakistan in the Super Four.

As the final was confirmed, the Indian team management made several changes to the eleven in the last match of the Super Four against Bangladesh. Yet they were in no way less powerful. India could not score 266 runs despite Shubman Gill's brilliant innings of 121 runs.

This one defeat seems to have broken the morale of the Indians. Even if they try to forget the defeat against Bangladesh and focus on facing Sri Lanka in the final today, the shock of defeat can weaken Rohit Sharma from the inside. It remains to be seen how much they can overcome the wounds of this defeat.

Indians can also carry with them the memory of defeating Sri Lanka in the Super Four. Despite scoring only 213 runs in that match, Rohit Sharma's team won the match by 41 runs by all out the Lankans for 172 runs.

Sri Lanka is now the 8th-ranked team. They also had to play qualifiers for the World Cup. But the consistency shown by the Lankans from the qualifying round is unbelievable. The Lankan spinners bowled brilliantly in the Super Four match against India. All 10 wickets were taken by the Lankan spinners. However, the Lankan top order failed in front of the Indian pace bowling, they had to lose. Otherwise, the Lankans could have returned home with victory that day as well.