In a welcome move, Sri Lanka Cricket's Emerging team are currently touring Japan for a five match T20 series. The Japan Cricket Association hope the series will serve as useful preparation for the East-Asia Pacific qualifying final for the 2024 T20 World Cup.

The tour began today with the tourists restricting Japan to 97-6 from their 20 overs and chasing down the target in 15.3 overs to win by five wickets.

The remaining matches will be on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

It is only the second time a representative side from an ICC full member has toured Japan, the only other time being when a Pakistan A Women's side toured for a three match series against Japan.

Japan Squad

Kendal Kadowaki-Fleming (c), Ryan Drake, Koji Hardgrave-Abe, Vinay Iyer, Raheel Kano, Shogo Kimura, Kohei Kubota, Piyush Kumbhare, Wataru Miyauchi, Supun Navarathna, Kento Ota-Dobell, Sabaorish Ravichandran, Reo Sakurano-Thomas, Dinesh Sandaruwan, Alexander Shirai-Patmore, Declan Suzuki-McComb, Mian Muneeb Siddique, Tsuyoshi Takada, Ibrahim Takahashi, Makoto Taniyama, Ashley Thurgate, Marcus Thurgate, Souta Wada, Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake

Sri Lanka Emerging Squad

Dellon Peiris (c), Sakuna Liyanage, Dunith Jayathunga, Sahil Dias, Ranmith Jayasena, Shehan Fernando, Yohan Liyanage, Sithara Hapuhinna, Hirantha Jayasinghe, Lakshan Gamage, Theesan Vithusan, Imithiyaz Slaza, Sithum Dissanayake, Harshana Wickramasinghe, Danal Hemananda