The back-to-back wickets in the eighth over of Sri Lanka 's innings swung this Asia Cup Super Four match towards Pakistan - this was how Sri Lanka captain Charith Asalanka , who was the first of the two batters to be dismissed in that passage, saw it.

Sri Lanka had been 58 for 3 after 7.1 overs, when Asalanka was caught at deep square-leg off the bowling of Hussain Talat. Next ball, Dasun Shanaka poked at a delivery in the channel and sent a thin edge to the wicketkeeper. Sri Lanka were suddenly five down with more than 60% of the overs remaining. The limped to 133 for 8 in the end.

"Although we didn't get a great start from the openers, at the end of the powerplay we still had 53 runs. We'd lost three wickets, but we were still in a good place, because it's not easy to score tha

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