Asia Cup 2016: India Aim To Maintain Winning Momentum, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Look For Good Performance
The Asia Cup 2016 will be played as a Twenty20 International tournament due to the upcoming ICC World Twenty20 in March. India, the number one ranked team, will be aiming to continue their winning momentum.
The Asia Cup 2016 will be played in the Twenty20 format as teams aim to assess their strengths and weaknesses ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 in March. Before the start of the main tournament, there was a qualifying event played before the Asia Cup that saw the likes of Oman, UAE, Hong Kong and Afghanistan competing for the one spot. UAE won all the three matches which secured their qualification to the main draw. Here is a look at the schedule
February 24: India vs Bangladesh, Mirpur
February 25: Sri Lanka vs UAE, Mirpur
February 26: Bangladesh vs UAE, Mirpur
February 27: India vs Pakistan, Mirpur
February 28: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, Mirpur
February 29: Pakistan vs UAE, Mirpur
March 1: India vs Sri Lanka, Mirpur
March 2: Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Mirpur
March 3: India vs UAE, Mirpur
March 4: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, Mirpur
March 6: Final, Mirpur
Time: All matches to begin at 19:00 hrs IST
Squads:
India: MS Dhoni (c and wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Hardik Pandya, Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh
Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Abu Hider, Al-Amin Hossain, Arafat Sunny, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Nasir Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Nurul Hassan, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Taskin Ahmed
Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (c), Anwar Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Sami, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz
Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), Angelo Mathews, Dushmantha Chameera, Dinesh Chandimal, Niroshan Dickwella, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Rangana Herath, Shehan Jayasuriya, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senanayake, Dasun Shanaka, Milinda Siriwardana, Jeffrey Vandersay
UAE: Amjad Javed (c), Ahmed Raza, Fahad Tariq, Farhan Ahmed, Mohammad Naveed, Mohammad Shahzad, Muhammad Kaleem, Muhammad Usman, Swapnil patil (wk), Qadeer Ahmed, Rohan Mustafa, Saqlain Haider, Shaiman Anwar, Usman Mushtaq, Zaheer Maqsood