Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka: T20 Asia Cup – start time, teams/lineups

Who: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
What: Asia Cup T20 Group B match
Where: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE
When: Saturday, September 13 astatine 6:30pm (14:30 GMT)

How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up connected Al Jazeera Sport from 3:30pm (11:30 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

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The archetypal crunch crippled of the 2025 Asia Cup comes successful Group B with six-time winners Sri Lanka taking connected a Bangladesh broadside that volition precise overmuch fancy their chances successful a crippled that is apt to spell a agelong mode to deciding the destiny of the pugnacious group.

With Afghanistan already up and moving successful the four-team radical with their triumph against Hong Kong, who Bangladesh besides bushed successful their radical opener, Sri Lanka volition beryllium feeling the unit to get connected the committee successful their archetypal outing.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a look astatine a conflict betwixt 2 sides hoping to assistance the trophy pursuing the September 28 final.

What is Bangladesh’s T20 signifier coming into the game?

A 33-ball half-century from skipper Litton Das handed Bangladesh an opening win successful the Asia Cup connected Thursday.

Bangladesh cruised to 144-3 for a seven-wicket triumph aft Hong Kong, which mislaid to Afghanistan successful its opening game, made 143-7 aft being enactment in.

Litton made a watchful commencement aft Parvez Hossain Emon (19) was deceived by Ayush Shukla’s slower shot and was caught astatine heavy mid-wicket successful the 3rd over.

Hong Kong struck erstwhile much wrong the powerplay erstwhile Nizakat Khan ran backmost from mid-off and held onto a drawback implicit his shoulders to disregard Tanzid Hasan, who struggled to people 14 disconnected 18 balls with lone 1 boundary.

But Litton and Towhid Hridoy (35 not out) ensured Hong Kong did not get a sniff to repetition its historical triumph against Bangladesh astatine the T20 World Cup successful 2014.

“Very important to triumph the archetypal game,” Litton said. “Last mates of series, we person played bully cricket, but successful the Asia Cup, a small spot of unit comes automatically.”

Bangladesh had beaten some Pakistan and Sri Lanka 2-1 successful their past 2 bilateral series.

Bangladesh’s Tanzid Hasan, right, and Bangladesh’s Litton Das tally betwixt the wickets to people during the Asia Cup Cricket lucifer against Hong Kong [Fatima Shbair/AP]

What is Sri Lanka’s T20 signifier like?

An unbeaten 73 from Kamil Mishara led Sri Lanka to an eight-wicket triumph implicit Zimbabwe successful Harare past Sunday to seal a 2-1 triumph successful their Twenty20 bid to lukewarm up for the Asia Cup.

Put successful to bat aft losing the toss, Zimbabwe made 191-8, but Sri Lanka cruised to the people with 14 balls to spare.

Mishara and Kusal Perera enactment connected 117 runs successful an unbeaten third-wicket basal arsenic Sri Lanka completed a white-ball double, having won the preceding one-day planetary bid against Zimbabwe 2-0.

Having scored conscionable 35 runs successful 4 erstwhile T20I innings, 24-year-old Mishara made his people with a match-winning knock, hitting 3 sixes and six fours from the 43 balls helium faced.

“It is simply a privilege to triumph a crippled for my country, I conscionable consciousness precise good,” said Mishara.

“There was pressure, of course, but the coaching unit conscionable told maine to play my mean game. I conscionable wanted to get into my bushed and past played my mean game.”

On apical of the 2-1 bid decision by Bangladesh, Sri Lanka mislaid their erstwhile T20 bid 2-1 to their hosts, New Zealand, successful December and January.

Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis top-scored with 73 successful his side’s triumph successful the opening T20 of the caller bilateral bid with Bangladesh [Eranga Jayawardena/AP]

What happened the past clip Bangladesh played Sri Lanka?

Bangladesh bushed Sri Lanka by 8 wickets to seal their three-game T20 bilateral bid earlier this year.

Having won the flip successful Colombo, Sri Lanka were restricted to 132-7 with opener Pathum Nissanka apical scoring with 46 disconnected 39 balls for the hosts.

Only 2 different batters made it to 20, however, with Dasun Shanaka coming successful astatine 7 and hitting 35 disconnected 25 to apical up the humble total.

Shak Mahedi Hasan claimed 4-11 disconnected his 4 overs for Bangladesh earlier Tanzid Hasan’s unbeaten 73 disconnected 47 made abbreviated enactment of the chase.

Bangladesh’s squad members airs for photographers with the winner’s trophy aft the 3rd Twenty20 cricket lucifer against Sri Lanka successful July [Eranga Jayawardena/AP]

What is Bangladesh’s Asia Cup record?

Bangladesh person yet to triumph the Asia Cup, but with each tourney that passes, the acquisition grows, and with it the anticipation that they volition soon clasp aloft the trophy.

They person been runners-up connected 3 occasions, the past being the 2018 final, erstwhile they were defeated by India by 3 wickets.

It was Bangladesh’s 3rd quality successful 4 finals, with India besides claiming triumph successful the 2016 last and Pakistan beating them successful 2012.

What is Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup record?

Sri Lanka has claimed six Asia Cup titles already. The islanders past lifted the trophy successful 2022, beating Pakistan connected location ungraded by 23 runs successful the final.

Their archetypal triumph came successful the 2nd edition, successful 1986, erstwhile they besides bushed Pakistan.

Between 1997 and 2008, Sri Lanka won 3 retired of 4 editions, and were the defeated finalists erstwhile Pakistan claimed the rubric successful 2000.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka squad news

After their opening win, Bangladesh look acceptable to beryllium unchanged for the crunch 2nd lucifer successful the group.

Janith Liyanage, meantime, was a precocious summation to the Sri Lanka squad for the Asia Cup. The seam bowling all-rounder’s summation to the squad means the Sri Lankans person a 17-strong radical for the tournament.

Sri Lanka chopped and changed their mode done the bilateral bid against Zimbabwe, with Nuwanidu Fernando replaced for the last lucifer by Kusal Perera.

Kamil Mishara was not selected for the archetypal lucifer of the three-game series, with the erstwhile 2 some playing, but played some the 2nd and 3rd games of the series.

Maheesh Theekshana besides dropped retired of the broadside from the 2nd lucifer to beryllium replaced by Matheesha Pathirana.

Nuwan Thushara, similar Theekshana, played the archetypal lucifer of the series, lone to beryllium replaced by Binura Fernando for the last 2 games.

Predicted Bangladesh lineup

Litton Das (c & w), Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tawhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali, Shamim Hossain, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed

Predicted Sri Lanka lineup

Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (w), Kamil Mishara, Nuwanidu Fernando, Charith Asalanka (c), Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka, Dushan Hemantha, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Binura Fernando