Pakistan vs United Arab Emirates, 6th Match

UAE 129/6 (20.0 Ovs)

PAK 131/3 (18.4 Ovs)

Pakistan won by 7 wkts

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Shoaib Malik

Bangladesh won by 23 runs

BAN 147/7 (20.0 Ovs)

SL 124/8 (20.0 Ovs)

Bangladesh won by 23 runs

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Sabbir Rahman

A good win for Bangladesh then, their first over the Islanders in this format. What this does among other things is that it raises their stock considerably. On the other hand, Sri Lanka continue to flounder. Just can't seem to settle in on a formula. Need to pull their socks quickly from here. Anyway, that's it from us for today. Tomorrow will see Pakistan squaring off against UAE. See you then. Cheers!

Mortaza: "Very important win. We have been struggling in T20Is, so a good one going forward. The wicket was pretty good to bat on but with 147, you can fight it out. It was on the slower side. Shakib played a good role but Sabbir Rahman was phenomenal. These boys are making my job easy and hopefully we can keep going."

Rahman: "Big opportunity it was for me after the first wicket went early. Stuck to my strengths and played positively. Just rotated strike and played to my strengths."

Sabbir Rahman is Man of the Match for his superb knock of 80 off 54 balls

Mathews: "We made a real game out of it. Should have just milked it around. After the initial start, we lost our way. Credit to the Bangladeshi bowlers who came hard and fought well. The options we took weren't very good. Unfortunately, we lost wickets consistently. Our bowlers had done a good job to restrict them under 150 on a wicket which was a good one to bat. Yes, the ball was sticking occasionally but it still was a good one. We have to be patient with the youngsters, it's a learning curve. All seniors need to take responsibility. I haven't been batting very well too. Hopefully we can pull ourselves up."

Hunting down 148 against Dhaka-backed hosts and on a pitch sans a Movember just doesn't eventualize every fortnight. And it fell short by a country mile tonight. Chandimal was rewarded a life with a first-over drop in the slips and he did ride on his luck-wheels to run-a-ball 37. Chandimal and Jayasuriya then threatened but a 56-run partnership was just too short-lived to parry Sri Lanka over. Dilshan's marooned form stayed long distanced, this time courtesy a Soumya Sarkar stunner, and Chandimal's terminally cute switch-hit only opened the floodgates. Sri Lanka panicked with every rising decibel, runs dried for as long as 7 overs after the half-way mark and Mustafizur resultingly rolled his wrists to frugal figures of 1/19. Mathews' wicket all but lidded off the fight and some late order assaults from Shanaka were relegated to impotent entertainment. A big shoulder-ramping win this for Bangladesh.

Just the sheer delight on those faces. The raw emotions of a young team getting a taste of success. So good to watch. "That's a very good confidence booster going into the Pakistan game and we'll play with confidence there as well," says an upbeat Mahmudullah. He has a word for the crowd as well "Thank you very much, keep supporting us." Yes, the crowd has been brilliant. Kept buzzing right through and were right behind their team.

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Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat

Feb 28, 2016 - 5th Match at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur (night)

Bangladesh 147/7 (20/20 ov)



Target: 148
Sri Lanka

Indomitable Mashrafi and undefeatable Malinga

Weapon of Bangladesh

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka - Twenty International Records (Since 2007)

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka - Twenty International Records (Since 2007)

Total Match - 4

Sri Lanka Won - 4

First T20I: ICC World Cup Twenty20 - Sri Lanka won by 64 runs at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, September 18, 2007
Last T20I: 2nd Twenty20 - Sri Lanka won by three wickets at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong on Feb 14, 2014.

Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Match

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Bangladesh
Possible XI: Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Mithun, Sabbir Rahman, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Nurul Hasan (wk), Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Taskin Ahmed, Al-Amin Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman
Sri Lanka
Possible XI: Shehan Jayasuriya, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Angelo Mathews, Chamara Kapugedara, Dasun Shanaka, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Sachitra Senanayake, Rangana Herath, Lasith Malinga (c)

Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Match

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India won by 5 wickets (with 27 balls remaining)

Pakistan 83

v

India 85/5 (15.3/20 ov)

India won by 5 wickets (with 27 balls remaining

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Big match ....huge excitement

Pakistan Asia Cup 15-man squad:

Shahid Afridi (Captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Anwar Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khurram Manzoor, Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Amir, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Nawaz, Sarfraz Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Sami, Sharjeel Khan
Pakistan probable playing XI: Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Mohammad Hafeez, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi (C), Umar Akmal, Anwar Ali, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Irfan, Imad Wasim

India Asia Cup 15-man squad:

MS Dhoni (Captain), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuvraj Singh​, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pawan Negi
India probable playing XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (C&wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Ashish Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah

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UAE is going to sit for their ability against Bangladesh

Malinga marks return with match-winning spell against UAE

Feb 25, 2016 - 2nd Match at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur (night)

Sri Lanka 129/8 (20 ov)

United Arab Emirates 115/9 (20 ov)

Sri Lanka won by 14 runs

SL 129/8 (20.0 Ovs)

UAE 65/6 (13.2 Ovs)  CRR: 4.88  REQ: 9.75

United Arab Emirates need 65 runs in 40 balls

Sri Lanka 129/8 (20/20 ov)

United Arab Emirates 38/5 (7.5/20 ov)

United Arab Emirates require another 92 runs with 5 wickets and 12.1 overs remaining

United Arab Emirates RR 4.85

Last 5 ovs 26/3 RR 5.20

Required RR 7.56

Sri Lanka RR 6.45

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	Current time 21:54 local, 15:54 GMT	T20I Career
Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR This bowler Last 5 ovs Swapnil Patil (rhb) 7 9 0 1 77.77 1 (2b) 7 (9b)		Mat Runs HS SR 15 156 34 86.18
Bowlers O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s This spell Rangana Herath (sla) 0.5 0 2 1 2.40 3 0 0 0.5-0-2-1 Angelo Mathews (rfm) 2.0 0 17 0 8.50 7 2 1 2-0-17-0		Mat Wkts BBI Econ 10 13 5/3 5.80 60 32 3/16 6.79

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Last bat Shaiman Anwar c †Chandimal b Herath 13 (15b 2x4 0x6) SR: 86.66
Fall of wicket 38/5 (7.5 ov); Partnership: 22 runs, 4.0 overs, RR: 5.50 (Shaiman Anwar 13, Patil 7)

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7.5

Herath to Shaiman Anwar, OUT, slides on outside off, Anwar skips back to cut a not-so-short ball. He can only edge it behind to the keeper. The UAE procession continues

Shaiman Anwar c †Chandimal b Herath 13 (15b 2x4 0x6) SR: 86.66

7.4

Herath to Shaiman Anwar, no run, pushed through quicker, drifts in, and then breaks away to beat the batsman. He drives and misses

7.3

Herath to Patil, 1 run, drifts in, down the track and flicked to the left of the diving Malinga at short midwicket

7.2

Herath to Patil, no run, flighed on middle, pushed back to the bowler on the front foot

7.1

Herath to Shaiman Anwar, 1 run, looped up on middle, nudged to square leg

Herath, for the first time in T20Is since SL's World T20 title win in 2014

UAE is going to face Srilanka in the evening (7.30 am)

Drop catch of Ruhit has taken us away from match : Mashrafi

Mustafiz action but fails to take any wicket.............

Some faces will never die

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ONE OF THE TRAGIC MOMENT IN THE CRICKET HISTORY THAT THE CRICKET WORLD WITNESSED IN ASIA CUP 2012 IN BANGLADESH

Number One

T20 Asia Cup 2016: Bangladesh will host the 2016 Asia Cup and 11 matches will be played starting from 24th February 2016. 1 team will qualify to play alongside four usual Asian teams Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The first match will be between India and Bangladesh on 24th while the marquee game between India vs Pakistan is set to take place on 27th February 2016 in Dhaka.
Asia Cup has been played since 1986 on frequent basis with Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh competing in the competition over the years. Cricket Asia Cup has always been a one day tournament but with Asian Cricket Council (ACC) now terminating their operations and getting absorbed by ICC it has been announced that 2016 Asia Cup will be a Twenty20 tournament played between 4 full test nations plus 2 associate teams from Asia. In the meeting which was concluded last week here are some of the new suggestion made for Asia Cups future.

Asia Cup T20 2016 – Teams Confirmed

In 2016 Asia Cup There will be 4 confirmed full test teams (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) plus one associate team from the four asian teams who already have T20 status (Afghanistan, UAE, Nepal and Hong Kong). So teams will compete in next years Asia Cup which will provide good experience for Asian teams to get themselves ready for T20 world cup to follow immediately.

• Asia Cup will be played regularly every two years from now on.
• In the Twenty20 World Cup year, Asia Cup will feature T20 competition and 2016 Asia Cup will be the first T20 event.
• Asia Cup 2016 will take place February or March before the T20 world cup in India.
• More associate teams will be included in the T20 competition.
• While in the year of 50 Over World Cup, Asia cup will be a one day tournament played before the world cup for example Asia Cup 2018 will be 50 over competition to be played before the 2019 world cup in India.
• While 2020 Asia Cup will again return to T20 format.

Asia Cup T20 2016 – Schedule & Dates:

Bangladesh will host 2016 Twenty20 Asia Cup from 24th February 2016 to 06 march 2016 but the venues and the match will be announced in couple of months time.
Sri Lanka and India has won the Asia Cup 5 teams each while Pakistan were victorious on 2 occasions. Total 12 tournaments has taken place since 1986.

QUALIFY ROUND

ndia: MS Dhoni (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi.
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (Captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed, Immad Wasim, Anwer Ali, Babar Azam, M Nawaz, M Aamir, Iftikhar Ahmed, M Irfan, Rumman Raees, Wahab Riaz, Khurram Manzoor.
Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (Captain), Shakib Al Hasan, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Mithun, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Arafat Sunny, Abu Hider, Nurul Hasan
Afghanistan: Asghar Stanikzai (Captain), Noor Ali Zadran, Mohammad Shahzad, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah, Rashid Khan, Amir Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Yamin Ahmadzai
Hong Kong: Tanwir Afzal (Captain), Aizaz Khan, Anshy Rath, Babar Hayat, Christopher Carter, Mark Chapman, Haseeb Amjad, Adil Mehmood, Nadeem Ahmed, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Ninad Shah, Tanveer Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Waqas Khan
Oman: Sultan Ahmed (Captain & wicketkeeper), Aamir Kaleem (vice-captain), Aaqib Sulehri, Adnan Ilyas, Amir Ali, Munis Ansari, Bilal Khan, Jatinder Singh, Ajay Lalcheta, Mehran Khan, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Sufyan Mehmood, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Zeeshan Maqsood, Zeeshan Siddiqui.
UAE: Amjad Javed (Captain), Mohammad Kaleem, Rohan Mustafa, Shaiman Anwar, Mohammad Shahzad, Swapnil Patil (VC), Usman Mushtaq, Ahmed Raza, Zaheer Maqsood, Mohammad Naveed, Farhan Ahmed, Qadeer Ahmed, Mohammad Usman, Fahad Tariq, Saqlain Haider
 

Four qualifying teams of Asia Cup Afghanistan, Oman, Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates are going to arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday (today). A single team will qualify for participating in the main competition of the first ever T20 Asia Cup.

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