Sri Lankan team announced for Asia CupImage Credit Source: PTI
Every team’s squad is being announced for the Asia Cup 2025 and now Sri Lanka’s name has also been added to it. The Sri Lankan team, which won the previous Asia Cup in the T20 format, will once again come down with the intention of winning the title and has been entrusted to Charit Asanka to get this success. Sri Lanka Cricket announced a 16-member squad for the tournament on Thursday 28 August, with the most important thing that spin-all-rounder Vanindu Hasranga has also got a place.
The selection panel of Sri Lanka Cricket announced the squad for the tournament on Thursday. The announcement of this team must have given some relief to the Sri Lankan fans as Hasranga has also been included in it. In fact, just before the Asia Cup squad, the Sri Lankan Board had also declared a team for the T20 series against Zimbabwe but there was no Hasranga in it. The reason for this was his fitness, due to which it was feared that he will probably not participate in the Asia Cup.
Hasranga has been given a place in the team on the basis that he will prove his fitness. In such a situation, the fans of Captain Asanka and the team will have a little hope that their most important spinner will be available for such a big tournament. Apart from these, most of the players in the team are the same players who have been continuously part of the team. But in these too, star pacer Dushmanta Chamera is important because this time he is constantly looking fit and can prove to be important for the team.
Sri Lanka T20i Squad Announced for the Asia Cup 2025📷 The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has Named the Following Squad for the Folling Squad for the Accc Mens T20 Asia Cup 2025. The Squad: https://t.co/lupablnzhj#Srilankacrick #Asiacup2025 pic.twitter.com/f5achdovg
– Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OFFCIALC) August 28, 2025
The Asia Cup T20 2022 champion Sri Lanka is in Group B this time, where it is accompanied by a team of Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Hong-Kong. Sri Lanka will take on Bangladesh on 13 September in their first match. Although the team is one of the claimants of the title, but Sri Lanka’s recent performance has not been good at all. At the end of last year, he was defeated in the T20 series at the hands of New Zealand. After this, she lost in the series in her house from Bangladesh. Now he has a competition with Zimbabwe before the Asia Cup and his performance here will tell how the team shows the game in the Asia Cup.
Charit Asanka (Captain), Pathum Nisanka, Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera, Nuvanidu Fernando, Kamindu Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dasun Shanka, Vanindu Hasranga, Dunith Vellage, Chamika Karunaratne, Mahish Tithi, Dushmanta Chamera, Binura Fernando, Nuwan Tukharana and Mantisha Patirna.
