Last night the Asia Cup 2018 witnessed an unexpected ouster with Afghanistan knocking out five-time champions Sri Lanka from the tournament. Afghanistan won the game by 91 runs and left the Sri Lankan fans in a state of shock with Lanka making an exit from Asia’s flagship event. After winning the toss, Afghanistan elected to bat first and they put up a total of 249 runs on the board. In reply, the Angelo Mathews’ led Sri Lankan team collapsed like a pack of cards on 158 runs. Asia Cup 2018 Schedule. 

This definitely did not go down well with the fans as the team did not even put up a convincing fight against Afghanistan. While some expressed their displeasure, the others were quite taken aback by the team’s performance. Social media since last night has been full of reactions and here are a few tweets. Sri Lanka loses against Afghanistan by 91 runs. 

Akash Chopra seemed to be in a state of shock. At least that’s what is tweet suggests.

“Srilanka beating Afghanistan will be called an upset. Afghanistan beating Srilanka was expected!Cards have turned around #SLvAFG #AsiaCup2018,” read another tweet.

Sri lanka beating my galli's team will be called an upset😂

Another netizen wrote, “Not at all. SL beating AFG will actually be called an upset.”

“Pretty sadly ...Being an ardent Jayasuriya/Sanga fan feels sorry for current side..But definitely they are missing Chandi and also seem luck deprived...All d best for the remaining tournament,” read another tweet.

After losing the match, Angelo Mathews was in a state of shock as the team got all out on 150 odd runs in both the games. He went on to blame the batting unit for the ouster of Sri Lanka from the Asia Cup 2018. "It's just the batting unit that let us down. We played better cricket in the latter part of the South Africa series. Just disappointing to see the way the boys went about it. We just couldn't handle pressure. Not passing 150 on both occasions is very shocking and disappointing."

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