Bangladesh is the team which has impressed everyone with their performances in international cricket last year 2015. The team won series against India, South Africa and Pakistan. The team has shown growth and is capable to return back into the game anytime. Bangladesh Team will be led by Mashrafe Mortaza and will be benefited by the experience player like Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib al Hasan are all experienced cricketers. Though the team is weak in bowling section, early breakthroughs are expected from Mustafizur Rahman and Shakib.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) the opponent team is the weakest team in the tournament but their latest performance in qualifying round where they won all matches against Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Oman will make the other team to rethink about their strategies for the match. The will be led by captain Amjad Javed

Bangladesh vs UAE team squad

Previous Performance of Bangladesh in Asia Cup

Bangladesh best performance in Asia Cup was in 2012, where the team reached to the final but was not able to win against Pakistan and lost the match by 2 runs. Till now the team has played 37 matches and were successful in only 4 matches loosing 33 matches. The winning percentage is only 10.81.

Previous Performance of UAE in Asia Cup

The United Arab Team have qualified for Asia Cup only twice in 2004 and 2008.UAE has played only 4 matches in Asia cup and has lost all four.

Bangladesh vs UAE previous encounter

Both team have played only one match against each other that too in group stage of Asia Cup 2008. The match resulted into Bangladesh huge win by 96 runs over UAE.

Bangladesh vs UAE Match-3 Asia Cup 2016

Date: 26 February 2016, Friday

Venue: Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur

Time : 7:00 pm (Indian Standard Time)

Match 3 Live Score

Toss: UAE won the toss and opted to field first.

Bangladesh : 133/8 in 20 overs

UAE : 82/10 in 17.4 overs

Match Result : Bangladesh won the match by 51 Runs and moved to 3rd position in asia cup 2016 points table.

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Sri Lanka, the defending champion 2014, will like to win their first match with a great margin to boost themselves and come back into the winning platform. Since the last two series against India and New Zealand were a disastrous for them as they lost both the series in the absence of their senior players Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Angelo Mathews and Rangana Herath. The return of their senior players back into the playing squad will increase the morale of the team. The top order batsman Dilshan will be the key player with the middle order batsman Chamara Kapugedara and Anglo Mathews. Huge shots round the boundaries are much expected from the bat of Thisara Parera and Mathews.

The only good thing for Sri Lanka against India series was the impressive bowling by their youngster Dushmantha Chameera. If he is included in the playing XI, the bowling will be strengthened more.

On the other hand United Arab Emirates (UAE) has surprised everyone by qualifying for Asia Cup 2016. UAE secured their qualification against Hong Kong, Oman and Afghanistan. Though the team has made their way to qualification with an all round performance but their further journey in Asia Cup 2016 will not be the easy one as they have to compete with the few of the top World teams.

Since T20 format of the cricket is a game of uncertainties, we can only expect UAE to give a strong competition to five times champion Sri Lanka.

Previous Performance of Sri Lanka in Asia Cup –

The defending Champion has been playing in Asia Cup since the first tournament in 1984. Sri Lanka  have won the championship 5 times (1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014). They have played 48 matches, won 34 and lost 14 with winning percentage of 70.83.

 Previous Performance of UAE in Asia Cup –  

UAE has qualified only two times for Asia Cup in 2004 and 2008. The team had played 4 group matches and lost all. But this time Asia Cup is being played in T20 format in which they have won all three matches in qualifier round.

Possible Playing XI:

2nd Match Asia Cup 2016 SL vs UAE :-

Match – Sri Lanka vs UAE

Time – 7.00 pm (Indian standard time)

Venue – Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh

Second  Match Live Score 

Toss : UAE won the Toss and Elected to field

Match Result : Sri Lanka won the match by 14 runs.

Man of The Match : SL Malinga for his amazing bowling performance 4 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs

Match Scorecard :

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Before the last qualifying match, Afghanistan vs Hong kong T20 was played where Afghanistan won the match by 66 runs and went to the top spot in the points table with 4 points. The last qualifier match of asia cup was going to decide which was played between unbeaten United Arab Emirates and Oman. In this match UAE made 172/6 in 20 overs where Oman only scored 101/8 at the end of the innings and decided the fifth team of Asia cup 2016 as UAE.

Now United Arab Emirates going to the tournament and will play their first match against Sri Lanka on 25th February 2016.

UAE Asia Cup 2016 Matches :-

So a very good news of the all Arabians fans on becoming the 5th team of Asia cup.

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4th qualifying match Asia Cup 2016 will start at 1:30 pm and will be played on Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah. United Arab Emirates will look forward to their 2nd win & try to  maintain their 1st position in the points table. In 2nd Qualifier match Hong Kong defeated by Oman with just 5 runs. Will they make it this time in front of UAE. lets find out in the cricket match going to start with in few minutes.

Here is the team squad of both of the teams for the 4th Qualifying match  :-

Hong Kong squad: 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

UAE squad: 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

Here is the match details and live score update from the match center.

Hong Kong vs United Arab Emirates Asia Cup 2016 :

The live score of HK vs UAE 4th Qualifier T20 match –

• Date : 21 February 2016
• Venue : Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah
• Match : 4th Qualifier
• Teams : Hong Kong and UAE
• Match Timing : 1:30 pm ( Local Time )

4th Qualifier Live Score Asia cup 2016:

Toss :Hong Kong won the toss and opted to bat first.

HK: 146/7 in 20 overs

United Arab emirates needs 147 runs to win in 20 overs.

UAE: 147/4 in 18.3 overs

United Arab Emirates won the match by 6 wickets and still on the top of the points table with 4 points.

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