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Hong Kong vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, Match 8, Asia Cup 2025
Result · Sep 15 2025, Mon - 08:00 PM (IST)
HONG KONG149/4
SRI LANKA153/6
Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets
CRR:8.12
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Asia Cup |
| Date: | Sep 15 2025, Mon - 08:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Dubai |
| Venue: | Dubai International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, Charith Asalanka (c), Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Nuwan Thushara |
| Hong Kong Playing XI: | Zeeshan Ali (wk), Anshy Rath, Babar Hayat, Nizakat Khan, Yasim Murtaza (c), Aizaz Khan, Kinchit Shah, Shahid Wasif, Ehsan Khan, Ayush Shukla, Ateeq Iqbal |
- This will be the first meeting played between Sri Lanka and Hong Kong in men’s T20Is; indeed, the Lions have never lost to an associate nation of the ICC in this format of the game.
- Sri Lanka have won each of their last six games in the men’s T20 Asia Cup; a win in this game would equal India’s winning streak of seven matches in this men’s competition’s, which ran from February 2016 to August 2022.
- Hong Kong have now lost each of their last three men’s T20I games in a row; the last time they recorded a longer such streak was for four matches in September 2023.
- Sri Lanka have won each of their last two men’s T20I games on the bounce, the last time they recorded a longer such streak was for a run of three games from October to November 2024.
- Hong Kong have won eight men’s T20I games in 2025, a win in this game would make it their second-most successful year with nine victories (8 wins in 2023); only in 2024 did they win more matches in the format (16).
- Sri Lanka have won each of their last four men’s T20I games played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, with their last loss at this venue coming against Afghanistan by eight wickets in this competition in 2022; meanwhile, Hong Kong have recorded just one win out of three matches at this venue, losing each of their last two in a row.
- Sri Lanka have a catch efficiency rate of 70.6% in men’s T20Is since the beginning of 2025, only Afghanistan (67.3%) and West Indies (69.2%) have a lower such rate among full-member sides during the same period; indeed, the Lions have dropped 10 of their 34 chances this year.
- Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka) has registered three scores of 50+ runs in men’s T20 Asia Cup, only Virat Kohli (4) has registered more in this competition; all three of Nissanka’s 50+ scores have come in his last four innings in the tournament, including the 50 he scored in Sri Lanka’s opener against Bangladesh on 13 September 2025.
- Aizaz Khan (994 runs) is just six away from becoming the fifth Hong Kong batter to reach 1000 runs in men’s T20Is; however, he has failed to score more than six runs in either of his two innings in this competition (6 vs Afghanistan and 5 vs Bangladesh).
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka) has picked up 11 wickets in men’s T20 Asia Cup, only Bhuvneshwar Kumar (13), Hardik Pandya (12) and Rashid Khan (12) have picked up more wickets in the Men’s T20 Asia Cup main tournament.
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