Another match against Sri Lanka in the 11th Asia Cup under-19 cricket tournament to be held in the United Arab Emirates is scheduled to be held tomorrow (3rd).
The match is scheduled to start today at 10.30 am at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. There, the Bangladesh under-19 team is scheduled to enter the competition field along with the Sri Lankan team, which is undefeated in the tournament so far.However, this is the last match that the Sri Lankan youth team will face in the 'B' group of the preliminary round of the Under-19 Asia Cup.
The Sri Lanka youth team, which has won both the matches that Sri Lanka faced in the tournament, has taken the lead in the 'B' group points table and has booked its place in the semi-finals.That is, in the preliminary round of this tournament, the Sri Lanka under-19 team won an easy 55-run victory against the Nepalese youth team in the first match. After that, yesterday (1st) Sri Lanka youth team won a huge victory of 131 runs in the match against Afghanistan youth team.Wicket keeper Shanujan Shanmuganathan, who engaged in a superb batting, scored 102 runs in 132 balls.
In this year's Under-19 Asia Cup, matches will be held under 2 groups as 'A' and 'B' in the preliminary round. Group A includes India, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Japan.Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Nepal are included in Group 'B'.
The first semi-final match of this year's Youth Asia Cup One Day Cricket Tournament will be held on December 6 in Dubai. The second semi-final is scheduled to be held on the same day in Sharjah.The teams topping the points table in each group in the preliminary round will qualify for the semi-finals. The final of the tournament is scheduled to be held on December 8 in Dubai.
Meanwhile, Vihas Thevmika, a right-arm spinner born at Thurston College, Colombo, has the responsibility of leading the Sri Lankan youth team in the Youth Asia Cup.However, it is special that Shanujan Shanmuganathan and Pulindu Perera, who represented the Youth World Cup held in South Africa, have been included in this squad.
Sri Lanka Squad - Vihas Thewmika (captain), Pulindu Perera, Tanuja Rajapaksa, Dulnith Sigera, Lakwin Abeysinghe, Vimat Dinsara, Ramiru Perera, Kavija Gamage, Viran Chamuditha, Praveen Manisha, Yenula Devthusa, Shanujan Shanmuganathan, Newton Rajkumar, Kugadas Mathulan, Geetika De Silva.
