Srilankan stand-in skipper Angelo Mathews is uncertain, weather Lasith Malinga have father role to play in the ongoing Asia Cup in Bangladesh as he missed the game against the Bangladesh, which they lost by 23 run's.

Malinga in his comeback game against a motivated UAE side on Thursday took 4-26, but had to sit out of the second game due to, knee injury. The experienced pacemen come into this tournament carrying a niggle and Mathews was unable to predict for how long Malinga will be sidelined, with just 5 days remaining before the start of World Cup T20, its defence looks difficult.

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Australia, four time world champions in one day internationals and number one in test cricket has never won a T20 world cup, and their best result came when they reached the 2010 final. Australia will be looking to do well in upcoming T20 world cup in India starting next month, however, they suffered 3-0 drubbing from the hands of India in recent concluded T20 series in Australia has given them a lot to think on. Steve Smith, feels that it will be tough to beat host nation India in T20 world cup, because of their inexperience in T20 cricket.

The Australian team flew to South Africa on Sunday to prepare for series in African nation and smith told the reporters at the Sydney airport that "On any given day in T20 cricket any side can be dangerous, an individual can take a game away from you,"

Over the years no Australian captain has gone into the T20 tournament believing that victory is impossible, and Steve is no different to them.

 Australia, will begin their world T20 campaign with their first match against an aggressive and T20 professional side New Zealand in Dharamala on march the 18th.

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Indians overcame a fiery and sharp blowing spell from Mohammad Amir to chase down a total of 84 which never looked easy at Sher-e-Bangla stadium, which had something for the fast bowlers to beat Pakistan by five wickets in Asia Cup match 3 on Saturday.

India on a green top decided to bowl first and things went according to Ms Dhoni’s Plan to reduce Pak experienced batting lineup to 45 for 6 under the first ten over’s, Pakistani wicket keeper batsmen Sarfraz Ahmed top scored for his team and made 25 runs in a low total of 83.

When Indian openers begin their chase, from ball one it looked that the chase will not be a walk in the park and Amir rattled Indians with early blows, but thanks to modern day great Virat Kohali, who scored 49 runs, which is surely one of his greatest innings with Yuvraj Singh helped India to chase down target with 27 balls to spare.

India skipper Ms Dhoni after the match said” We are a team that loves to play aggressive cricket. But this pushes us to respect the conditions, which will be good going into the World Twenty20“.

Pak Captain Shahid Afridi expressed his concern over his batsmen’s to read the wicket "We have played so much cricket. We should have read the pitch, we did not play according to the pitch," said Afridi.

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Whenever Brendon Mcculum walked through the pavilion and marked his crease to start his innings, the word of ultra aggression came in our mind, but this is now a thing of past. In cricket over the years, there has been a debate going on that who is the best limited over’s player of all time. Many will say Sachin Tendulkar, others feel Ricky Ponting, Chris Gayle, Virender Sehwag and the list is endless because the game of cricket is blessed with legends.

But if cricket fans were asked to list top five players whom they love to watch and I’m pretty sure that Brendon Mcculum will occupy a spot somewhere near the top in the list.

Bredon Maccullum was a special player, who attracted millions cricketing fans from around the globe to travel miles to see him bat. So, when he decided to retire, cricket fans with a lot of regret, accepted this decision, because we all know that every beginning has ending and Baz is no exception.

Brendon Mcculum on his last match against the arch revivals Aussies in Christchurch did what he does best and scored hundred off just 54 deliveries, which is the fastest hundred in the test history.

Baz wasn’t always a match winner, but a player who when came into his own would destroy even the strongest bowling attack in the world and he has a healthy cricketing record to prove it right.

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Defending champions Srilanka defeated minnows UAE by 14 runs and saved themselves from an unexpected upset in Asia cup 2016 match 2 on Thursday. UAE after winning the toss choose to invite islanders to have a bat first.

Srilankans after making a pretty good start with 68-0 could only manage a modest total of 129 -8,  thanks to some excellent bowling efforts from skipper Amjad Javed claiming 3-25 at  Sher-e-Bangla stadium, Mirapur.

But the chances of an upset was soon jolted when Lasith Malinga making his comeback from knee injury removed both the UAE openers in the first over after the break and Nuwan Kulasekara, who missed on recent India t20 tour also made a strong impression to help Lanka to reduce UAE to 16-4.

Indian origin lower middle order batsmen Swapnil Patil do provided some hiccups in islander camp by making 37 before becoming the third victim of Malinga, in his second spell.


UAE will now face hosts on Friday match 3 Asia cup 2016.

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