Sri Lanka is a part of Group D along with South Africa, Netherlands, Bangladesh and Nepal. In the previous T20 WC in Australia back in 2022, Sri Lanka could not make it past the group stage, finishing at the fourth spot in group one with two wins and three losses.
While answering an answer about the team's chase, the spinner said that the team never thought they were out of the hunt at the halfway mark. He refuted claims of his team being under pressure at mid-innings.