Umar Gul celebrates Nasir Hossain's wicket as Shakib Al Hasan watches

Pakistan will play Sri Lanka in their first game of the Asia Cup 2012 at Dhaka on Thursday, March 15, 2012.
The match will start at 14:00 local | 08:00 GMT | 13:30 IST. See live scorecard.

Sri Lanka lost their opening game against India by 50 runs. Pakistan won their opener against Bangladesh. They are almost thru to the finals if they win this match. Watch live streaming.

This is a kind of a must win match for them. India, with the help of Gautam Gambhir’s 100 and Virat Kohli’s century piled up 304 runs, after batting first.

The news from Sri Lanka is that, Mathews’ departure from Bangladesh with a calf injury is a severe blow for Sri Lanka.

The absence of their fast bowler Lasith Malinga’s from the playing eleven against India was a major talking point. Malinga bowled and batted in the nets today and will play todays game.

The probable squads are as below:

Sri Lanka: 1 Mahela Jayawardene, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Dinesh Chandimal, 4 Kumar Sangakkara, 5 Lahiru Thirimanne, 6 Upul Tharanga, 7 Chamara Kapugedera, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Seekkuge Prasanna, 11 Lasith Malinga.

Pakistan: 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Nasir Jamshed, 3 Younis Khan 4 Umar Akmal, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Asad Shafiq, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Sarfraz Ahmed, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Aizaz Cheema.

The highlights videos can be watched here after the game is over.