Asia Cup 2022 News Digest

August 26

IPL experience will make great energy for SL: Bhanuka Rajapaksa

The daring, thrill-a-minute player - who knocked some people's socks off in the beginning stage of IPL 2022 with his appearances - is expecting to convey the 'uplifting tones' of IPL to the Sri Lankan side at the Asia Cup. Sri Lanka have the second-best count of Asia Cup wins (5 to India's 7) however their last triumph returned 2014.

"As far as I might be concerned, the experience I acquire subsequent to playing the IPL will make great energy for the side," Rajapaksa said. "Perhaps of the best talk I had with Liam [Livingstone] was the point at which he said, 'Assuming it's in the V, ensure the ball is in the trees'. He'd quite recently be just forceful. Legitimate hammer bang player.

"Returning to the Sri Lankan side, I have gotten a ton of energy subsequent to addressing a ton of the IPL players, as Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal and KG [Kagiso Rabada]. I don't think have opportunity and willpower to make sense of exhaustively the discussions we had, yet there were a ton of uplifting tones. I'm trusting we can take that equivalent brand of cricket to the world."

They can put this 'brand' to test on the premiere night (August 27) of the multi-group competition, when they take on Afghanistan in Dubai.

Random data: Rajapaksa crushed his 209 runs for Punjab Kings in IPL 2022 at a strike pace of 159.7
Hong Kong qualify

Like in 2018, Hong Kong have come to Asia Cup once more. They're in similar gathering as India and Pakistan - like 2018 once more. They face Rohit Sharma's side on August 31 and Pakistan on September 2 - in Dubai and Sharjah separately.

Asia Cup 2022 Squads

India:Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Virat Kohli, Deepak Hooda, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan

Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohamad Wasim Jr., Shadab Khan, Mohammad Rizwan, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Usman Qadir, Shahnawaz Dahani, Mohammad Hasnain

Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (c), Pathum Nissanka, Nuwanidu Fernando, Danushka Gunathilaka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Kusal Mendis, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dinesh Chandimal, Ashen Bandara, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Praveen Jayawickrama, Chamika Karunaratne, Dilshan Madhushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Asitha Fernando, Pramod Madushan, Nuwan Thushara

Bangladesh:Shakib Al Hasan (c), Sabbir Rahman, Mohammad Naim, Afif Hossein, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mehidy Hasan, Anamul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Taskin Ahmed

Afghanistan: Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Usman Ghani, Samiullah Shinwari, Afsar Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Azmatullah Omarzai, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Karim Janat, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Naveen-ul-Haq, Noor Ahmad, Fareed Ahmed Malik, Rashid Khan