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

The promo Video

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.

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