Sri Lanka (SL) vs Hong Kong (HK) Live Cricket Score, Asia Cup 2025 T20 Match 8 Updates: Sri Lanka will look to make it two out of two as they take on Hong Kong in a Group B Asia Cup encounter on Monday. The Lankan Lions had bulldozed through Bangladesh in their last match and will be aiming to go on top of the table before their last group clash against Afghanistan.
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Sri Lanka look a pretty balanced side coming into this encounter with their batting and bowling lineups meshing together in almost flawless symphony against Bangladesh in their last match. Nuwan Thushara, Dushmantha Chameera and Wanindu Hasaranga tightened the screw against the Bangla batting lineup, restricting them to 139 before Pathum Nissanka and Kamil Mishara helped them get to the target in just over 14 overs.
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Hong Kong, meanwhile, already have a foot out of the Asia Cup, already losing to Afghanistan and Bangladesh. With Sri Lanka in hot form, they might not be able to get on the points board at all. But in case, they can pull off an upset, they’ll at least get something out of this tournament.
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Kamindu Mendis: A cricketer more versatile than Pradeep Mathew, the magical fictitious Lankan spinner
Kamindu has time and touch, grace and grandeur, was the third fastest ever to 1,000 runs in Test cricket; averages an unearthly 62.66, makes more than 50 runs in every two-and-a-half innings. (X/ Sri Lanka Cricket)
Before Kamindu Mendis, there was Pradeep Mathew. The left-arm wrist spinner had more variations than any bowler ever had. The flipper, the darter, the skidder, the floater, the infamous double bounce ball that spun one way and then the other. Had his career fully bloomed, he could have been a bigger match-winner than Muttiah Muralitharan, “or the second behind him.” Except, of course, that Pradeep Mathew is a fictitious character in Shehan Karunatilaka’s tour de force novel Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew.
The closest a Sri Lanka cricketer has come to the imaginary Mathew is Kamindu. He bowls left-arm orthodox spin to right-handed batsmen; at the sight of left-handers, he switches to right-arm off-spin. But he has one far more precious gift that Mathew did not have. The gift to bat, and bat better than most in the world. He has time and touch, grace and grandeur, was the third fastest ever to 1,000 runs in Test cricket; averages an unearthly 62.66, makes more than 50 runs in every two-and-a-half innings. In times of flux—seemingly eternal — he is the compass that’s guiding Sri Lanka through the rough seas.
