SL vs BAN Playing XI: Bangladesh challenge defending champions Sri Lanka, Know the likely playing XI

SL vs BAN Playing XI: The second match of the Asia Cup 2023 between the defending champions Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be played today i.e. Thursday 31 August at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. It will be important to register a win in today’s match for both the teams who are plagued by injuries. In fact, Sri Lanka, the third team in the group from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and in recent times, this team has performed brilliantly and caused several major upsets. No one would make the mistake of taking the Afghanistan team lightly in such a situation. Apart from this, it cannot be said about which matches will be washed away due to monsoon rains.

In the second match of the Asia Cup 2023 today, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be looking to get off to a winning start with players recovering from injuries.

Sri Lanka was the last team to announce the squad for the Asia Cup. The Sri Lanka Cricket Board announced its squad a day before the start of the tournament. The board announced the squad late as several players in their squad were injured and some were infected with Kovid-19. Sri Lankan players Wanindu Hasranga, Dushmantha Chamira, Lahiru Kumara and Dilshan Madhushanka are struggling with injuries while Kusal Perera is yet to recover from the Covid-19 infection.

The Sri Lankan team can take solace from the fact that the Bangladesh team is also struggling in a similar situation. The Bangladesh team will miss the injured Tamim Iqbal, fast bowler Ibadat Hussain and wicketkeeper-batsman Liton Das. Das is still not recovered from the viral fever that ruled him out of the entire Asia Cup on Wednesday. Wicketkeeper batsman Anamul Haque Bijoy was included in place of Das.

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Sri Lanka Probable XI: Pathum Nisanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis (wk), Sadira Samarawickrama, Charith Aslanka, Dhananjay de Silva, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dushan Hemantha, Mahish Thekshana, Mathisha Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha.

Bangladesh Probable XI: Tanjeed Tamim, Naeem Sheikh, Nazmul Hussain, Tauheed Hridoy, Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Mehdi Hasan, Mehdi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmood, Mustafizur Rahman/Shoraful Islam.