Asia Cup 2025: Sri Lanka Cricket Board has announced a 16-member squad for the upcoming T20 Asia Cup 2025, which is scheduled to start on September 9 in the United Arab Emirates. The team will be led by left-handed batter Charith Asalanka, and includes star all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga and pacer Matheesha Pathirana.
Sri Lanka squad for Asia Cup 2025: Full list of players
Sri Lanka squad:
- Charith Asalanka (c),
- Pathum Nissanka,
- Kusal Mendis,
- Kusal Perera,
- Nuwanidu Fernando,
- Kamindu Mendis,
- Kamil Mishara,
- Dasun Shanaka,
- Wanindu Hasaranga,
- Dunith Wellalage,
- Chamika Karunaratne,
- Maheesh Theekshana,
- Dushmantha Chameera,
- Binura Fernando,
- Nuwan Thushara,
- and Matheesha Pathirana.
Sri Lanka Asia Cup Schedule 2025:
- September 13: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 15: Sri Lanka vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 18: Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
Here’s the full schedule, venue, and squads list for the Asia Cup 2025 tournament:
Asia Cup 2025 full schedule
League stage:
- September 9: Afghanistan vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 10: India vs UAE – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 11: Bangladesh vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 12: Pakistan vs Oman – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 13: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 14: India vs Pakistan – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 15: UAE vs Oman – 5.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 15: Sri Lanka vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 16: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 17: Pakistan vs UAE – 7.30 p.m. – Dubai
- September 18: Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 19: India vs Oman – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
Super fours:
- September 20: B1 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 21: A1 vs A2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 23: A2 vs B1 – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 24: A1 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 25: A2 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 26: A1 vs B1 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- Final: September 28. – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
(Asia Cup timings in IST)
Asia Cup 2025 full squads
| India | Pakistan |
|---|---|
| Suryakumar Yadav (c) Shubman Gill (vc) Jasprit Bumrah Varun Chakravarthy Shivam Dube Hardik Pandya Axar Patel Harshit Rana Sanju Samson (wk) Abhishek Sharma Jitesh Sharma (wk) Arshdeep Singh Rinku Singh Tilak Varma Kuldeep Yadav | Salman Ali Agha (c) Shaheen Afridi Abrar Ahmed Hasan Ali Faheem Ashraf Saim Ayub Sahibzada Farhan Mohammad Haris (wk) Salman Mirza Sufiyan Muqeem Hassan Nawaz Mohammad Nawaz Haris Rauf Khushdil Shah Hussain Talat Mohammad Wasim Jr. Fakhar Zaman |
| Afghanistan | Bangladesh |
|---|---|
| Rashid Khan (c) Fareed Ahmad Noor Ahmad Sediqullah Atal Sharafuddin Ashraf Fazalhaq Farooqi Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Naveen-ul-Haq Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Karim Janat Gulbadin Naib Mohammad Nabi Azmatullah Omarzai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Darwish Rasooli Ibrahim Zadran | Litton Das (c, wk) Nasum Ahmed Taskin Ahmed Jaker Ali (wk) Parvez Hossain Emon Nurul Hasan (wk) Tanzid Hasan Tanzim Hasan Saif Hassan Rishad Hossain Shamim Hossain Towhid Hridoy Shoriful Islam Mehidy Hasan Miraz Mustafizur Rahman Mohammad Saifuddin |
| Hong Kong | Oman |
|---|---|
| Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Haroon Arshad Kalhan Challu Martin Coetzee Mohammad Ghazanfar Ali Hassan Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Anas Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Adil Mehmood Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Kinchit Shah Ayush Shukla Mohammad Waheed Shahid Wasif (wk) | Jatinder Singh (c) Shakeel Ahmed Aryan Bisht Muhammed Imran Zikria Islam Aamir Kaleem Nadeem Khan Sufyan Mehmood Hammad Mirza Mohammad Nadeem Ashish Odedara Faisal Shah Hassnain Shah Samay Shrivastava Vinayak Shukla (wk) Karan Sonavale Sufyan Yousuf (wk) |
| Sri Lanka | United Arab Emirates |
|---|---|
| Charith Asalanka (c), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera, Nuwanidu Fernando, Kamindu Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Wellalage, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushmantha Chameera, Binura Fernando, Nuwan Thushara, and Matheesha Pathirana. | – |