Both the teams have already booked their places for Sunday’s title match in the practice tournament of the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in October-November.
Hasaranga returned figures of 3-21 with his leg-spin to help bowl out Pakistan for 121 in 19.1 overs after he elected to field first in Dubai.
Sri Lanka slipped 29-3 in their chase first pathum nissanka (55 not out) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa (24) put on a crucial stand of 51 as the island nation chased down their target with three overs to spare.
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Left-handed Rajapaksa fell after his 19-ball knock, but Nisanka persevered and Hasaranga scored the winning run as Sri Lanka registered their fourth straight victory.
It was the Sri Lankan bowlers who started the team’s dominance as debutant pacer Pramod Madushan hit a four in their first over.
He sent off in-form Mohammad Rizwan, who is second only to Virat Kohli in the run-scoring charts of the tournament.
Chamika Karunaratne ended Fakhar Zaman’s stay for 13 runs and Pakistan slipped further when Hasranga’s Azam was bowled.
Babar, who has struggled with scores of 10, 9, 14 and zero in his last innings in the tournament, started off with a pleasant straight drive for four but could not score a match-defining score.
Pakistan lost wickets and Hasranga finished his spell with two consecutive wickets to level Pakistan’s batting, which survived only 19.1 overs despite a late cameo of 26 runs by Mohammad Nawaz.
Spinners Mahesh Thekshana and Madhushan took two wickets each.
The Pakistan pacers also picked up three early wickets to put Sri Lanka on the back foot before Nissenka and left-arm Rajapaksa got the chase back on track.
Mohammad Hasnaini On the second ball of the innings, Kusal Mendis was dismissed for a duck on the first ball and gave the team a great start.
Teammate Tej Haris Rauf took a wicket each in his first two overs, dismissing Danushka Gunathilaka for zero and Dhananjay de Silva for nine.
Nissenka then went with Rajapaksa and scored his seventh T20I half-century for Sri Lanka despite losing his partner after a strong stand.
He was then joined by captain Dasun Shanaka, who turned 31 on Friday and scored 21 off 16 balls before being dismissed for Hasnain.
India, having lost two of their three Super Four matches, were knocked out of pre-tournament favorites India after losing to Pakistan in Afghanistan on Wednesday.