Middle over batting must improve - Karunaratne

Sri Lanka Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne says the teams batting needs improvement following yesterdays narrow win against Afghanistan.

Speaking at the post-match press conference Karunaratne was relieved with the result however he called for improvement in batting in the middle overs.

He said We had a good start after a long time but suddenly, we lost a couple of wickets and were on the back foot. That's the negative part but otherwise, the bowling and fielding was really good.

We have the experience in these conditions and that helped. Only thing we need to work on is to improve our batting in the middle overs.

Sri Lanka collapsed to 201 all out as Afghanistan grabbed nine wickets for 57 runs in a dramatic first innings after they were put into bat.

Sri Lanka made a promising start but fell apart in the middle order due to the wily spin of Mohammed Nabi and the seam bowling of Mohammad Shahzad.