President M Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia congratulated Bangladesh team for their great victory.
Earlier, Bangladesh was given a revised target of 212 in 40 over as the match was delayed due to wet outfield conditions following rains.
In response to the target, Bangladesh scored 213 for 5 with 17 balls remaining.
Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Nasir Hossain and Mahmudullah scored 59, 56, 36 and 32 respectively.
While Kulasekara and Senanayake of Sri Lanka bagged two wickets each.
Earlier, Mushfiqur Rahim invited Jayawardene to bat first after wining the toss.
Sri Lanka lost all wickets to score 232. Kapugedera scored 62 and Thirimanne 48.
Nazmul Hossain created pressure on Sri Lanka in the beginning by sending Jayawardene (5), Sangakara (6) and Jayawardene (19) to pavilion.
Abdur Razzak and Shakib Al Hasan picked up two wickets each while Shahadat Hossain and Mashrafe Mortaza bagged one each.
Sri Lanka however was knocked out of the Asia Cup. But they can still spoil Bangladesh or India’s chances of qualifying for the final.
Bangladesh also fought hard against Pakistan, won memorably against India by embarrassing a weak bowling attack and can’t be written off against a Sri Lanka team yet to recover from sizable defeats.
On Sunday India defeated Pakistan by six wickets in the 5th match. On March 16, India was defeated by host Bangladesh with five wickets.
On the other hand, Pakistan has already booked a place in the final defeating hosts Bangladesh and the Lankans in their previous two matches.
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