Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Highlights, Asia Cup 2025: BAN start off Super 4s with strong win, end SL's winning run

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Hit for four, but bounces back well! It's a thin edge as Perera slashes at it, and Litton has an easy catch.

Now 97/4 and Sri Lanka limping along.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Shanaka connects! What a hit. Sri Lanka really needed this. Need to try and get a move on.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Bangladesh will be very happy with this phase of play. They might think they are just ahead for the moment. Kusal Perera and Shanaka try to rebuild.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Yes, that was coming. Bangladesh have been very good since the field went out. Prompts Mishara to try an elaborate switch hit, and he swings right through it. Knocks his stumps over — he won't want to watch that one again.

65/3 now.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: What a big moment that could be! Sri Lanka have relied on one of their openers stitching things together, but now both are back in the hut. Mahedi gets his man, as the sweep doesn't get enough power behind it, and settles in for an easy catch.

It's 58/2, and now questions will be asked of this middle order on a tricky surface.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Just 3 off Fizz's first over. He will want to find some rhythm tonight. Really good one.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Great powerplay for Sri Lanka despite that wicket. On a pitch where scoring at 7 is difficult, they have gone at 9. Just the platform they needed. Bangladesh needs to tighten the screws, and find another wicket.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Gone! Nissanka tries the same shot again, and that's the risk with it . If the timing is off, it's asking for trouble. It's a simple catch in the outfield. Nissanka looked so good for his 22, but he has to go back to the dugout.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Some batting form, this. Gets one thigh high on his legs, not easy to put it away with as much authority as he has. Sensational shot.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: He's looked slightly scratchy, but that's more like it. Strides down, uses his feet, and launches a big six down the ground. Excellent cricket!

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Great cricket from Nissanka! After that pull for four, two more boundaries right down the ground. He's hitting them so well early on.

28/0 after 3.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: The kind of shot that tells you how well he is seeing it at the moment. Trusts his hands and his batspeed to connect well and clear midwicket. Flat, crisp, four.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Mendis cuts it away for a four, but that over only provides 5 runs. Nice and tight early on.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Good shot! He played a terrific innings in the last match, and this time he starts of well. Gets a comfy one on his pads, and the timing is so good to clear the leg side for the first boundary – a six!

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Off we go! Single into the legside to begin from Nissanka. Strong shape early.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: They have been in strong form, but with scoring set to be at a premium through the middle overs, the openers will need to get off to a really good start. Play starts soon.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Playing XIs for Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, Charith Asalanka (c), Dasun Shanaka, Kamindu Mendis, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Wellalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Thushara

Bangladesh (Playing XI): Saif Hassan, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Litton Das (wk & c), Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Litton Das calls correctly at the toss, and not a big surprise as he opts to bowl first and chase in Dubai! Says he is a bit confused about the pitch, but the odds are the chasing team has a little bit of an advantage. Two changes for Bangladesh. Sri Lanka with the same XI, Dunith Wellalage fights through grief to show up for his country tonight.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: These teams have faced off 10 times in the 2020s decade, and it has been a balanced head-to-head. Sri Lanka have won six matches, and Bangladesh have won four: in their last six matches, they have won three apiece. They keep going back and forth with results, and that might give Bangladesh confidence to prevent another heavy loss.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Toss will take place with Asalanka and Litton Das set to make a big call. Chasing is typically the way to go on this surface, will that be the direction they opt to go? 3 out of 5 won by the chasing team so far at this venue this tournament, Pakistan's two wins over Oman and UAE having come batting first.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Nuwan Thushara is another one of those Sri Lankan up-and-comers with that Malinga-esque slinging action, capable of deadly yorkers and of generating late swing, but also capable of a devilish slower ball. He burst through the top orders of both Bangladesh and Afghanistan earlier in this tournament: if he can keep that run of form going, he will be almost unplayable, even with limited help on offer for pace.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Nissanka started off with two consecutive fifties in the Asia Cup – the first tied him with Kusal Mendis on 16 T20I 50s, the second helped him overtake his opening partner. However, after he fell cheaply vs Afghanistan, it was Mendis who took over with a half-century of his own, drawing back level with Nissanka.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: Hasaranga has been absolutely sensational in this tournament so far, really givving the ball good revs, turning it both ways, mixing in his variations, but always hitting a good length and prpesenting a threat without allowing himself to be hit. He will hit the right area again and again in his spell, challenging both edges, and the stumps as well. How Bangladesh cope with spin of this calibre could decide the game on a pitch where he will have plenty of purchase.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: When these two teams met in the group stages, it was Sri Lanka all the way. They started off with a flurry of early wickets, taking control of the bowling innings, and even a late rescue act by Jaker Ali and Shamim Hossain only got BAN to a total of 139. In response, Sri Lanka hardly broke a sweat, taking only 14.4 overs to chase down the target. It was domination from the off, and a win that will give Sri Lanka plenty of confidence that they are the superior team at the moment.

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, SL vs BAN Super 4: There is only one match left in Abu Dhabi this season, which means an already slow and spinning Dubai surface will get slower and slower and tougher and tougher for batters. There are quality spinners on both sides of this matchup, and they should really enjoy getting to play on this surface.