{"id":141126,"date":"2025-09-13T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:04:06","slug":"sri-lanka-beat-bangladesh-with-ease-in-asia-cup-encounter-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141126\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh with ease in Asia Cup encounter &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka won against Bangladesh with ease in their first Twenty20 International (T20I) encounter of the men\u2019s Asia Cup 2025 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan men\u2019s side chased down the target in just 15 overs after restricting the Tigers to 139 in the first innings.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka skipper Charith Asalanka had won the toss in Abu Dhabi and elected to bowl in their first match of the Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh made one change to their playing eleven from their victory over Hong Kong, as left-arm pacer Shoriful Islam came in for the right-arm Taskin Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh skipper Litton Das had top-scored with 59 as Bangladesh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1941283\/litton-guides-bangladesh-to-win-over-hong-kong-in-t20-asia-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat<\/a> a spirited Hong Kong by seven wickets in their first match of the Asia Cup on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-nation T20 tournament began on Tuesday with Afghanistan beating Hong Kong by 94 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, India, Oman and UAE are in Group A, while Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Bangladesh form Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each Group will qualify for the Super Four stage.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams will then play the September 28 final in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Teams:<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wicket-keeper), Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, Charith Asalanka (captain), Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dushmantha Chameera, Matheesha Pathirana, and Nuwan Thushara.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh: Pervez Hossain Emon, Tanzid Hasan, Litton Das (capt and wk), Towhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali, Shamim Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Shoriful Islam, and Mustafizur Rahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka won against Bangladesh with ease in their first Twenty20 International (T20I) encounter of the men\u2019s Asia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,93753,85],"class_list":["post-141126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-mens-asia-cup-2025","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}