Hong Kong made this legend before Asia Cup 2025 (Photo- Francois Nel/Getty Images)
The Asia Cup 2025 schedule has been announced and it is starting from 9 September. The final match of this tournament will be played on 29 September. A total of 8 teams are participating in this tournament, one of which is also Hong Kong. Hong Kong qualified for this tournament by performing a bang in the Asia Cup qualifiers. Now before the start of this tournament, Hong Kong has included a veteran in his team. He has made the former Sri Lankan Test player the head coach of his team.
Hong Kong announces head coach
Hong Kong Cricket has created the new head coach of his team, Kaushal Silva, a former Sri Lankan player. Kaushal Silva made his Test debut against Pakistan in 2011 for Sri Lanka. He was part of the Sri Lankan team for 7 years and scored 2099 runs in 74 innings of 39 Test matches at an average of 28.36. He also scored 3 centuries and 12 half -centuries. He has participated in Test cricket only from Sri Lanka. Now Test players will be seen playing an important role in Hong Kong cricket team.
Burji Shroff, chairperson of Cricket Hong Kong, said, ‘With the arrival of Kaushal, the players of the team will get to learn a lot. We want to improve the future of Hong Kong’s cricket and we are very happy with his arrival. It is expected that the players of the team can perform strongly in their coaching. Hong Kong recently participated in the Asia Pacific Cricket Champions Trophy in Singapore, where he was runner -up after losing to Malaysia in the final. Many fans were quite happy with the team’s performance.
Tournament starting on 9 September
A total of 8 teams are divided into two groups in the Asia Cup 2025. Group A stars India, Pakistan, Oman and UAE while Group B has Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. Hong Kong has to play their first match against Afghanistan on 9 September, after which the team will play their second group stage match against Bangladesh on 11 September. The team will play their last league match against Sri Lanka on 15 September. Hong Kong would definitely like to give a tough competition to big teams in this tournament.
