India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2025 Final: The Asia Cup was played for the first time in the year 1984. After that the Asia Cup took 17 seasons between 2025 years. There is a distance of 41 years between 1984 and 2025. But this will be the first time that India-Pakistan will face each other for the first time in the final of this transformed tournament.
Overall, this is considered to be the biggest twist of this tournament. Pakistan defeated Bangladesh in the Super-4 match on 25th September and booked its seat to play the final against India.
Overall, India and Pakistan will clash in the final of the Asia Cup for the first time in the 17th edition of the Asia Cup. That is, this is an important turn. India has won the final of this tournament 8 times. These include 1984, 1988, 1990–91, 1995, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2023. The Asia Cup was a T20 format in 2016.
At the same time, Pakistan has won this cup only twice in 2000, 2012 and in the year 2000. But the biggest twist here is that both countries have never come in the finals in front of each other. Sri Lanka won this tournament 6 times in 1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2022. The Asia Cup of 2022 has been the T20 format as of now.
How many times Pakistan and India runner-up of Asia Cup
The Indian team is the leading in terms of winning the Asia Cup. At the same time, he is also a runner-up. The Indian team also lost in 1997, 2004, 2008 finals. Sri Lanka made him all three times in the final. Now when India plays in the final of the Asia Cup against Pakistan, it will be its 12th Asia Cup final. At the same time, Pakistan has been a runnerup of 1986, 2014, 2022 (T20 format).
Asia Cup did not play India in 1986
India did not play the 1986 Asia Cup as cricket relations with Sri Lanka were not good at that time. Pakistan also boycot the 1990–91 tournament due to a bad political relationship with India. For this reason, the 1993 Asia Cup was also canceled. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) later decided that from 2009 the tournament would be played once every two years. The ICC also decided that all the matches played in the Asia Cup would be considered as the official ODI match.
After shortening the size of the Asian Cricket Council in 2015, the ICC (International Cricket Council) announced that the Asia Cup will be played in ODI and T20 format from 2016, it will depend on which format the next big tournament is in. For this reason, the 2016 Asia Cup was played in T20 format for the first time. Later it took place in T20 format in 2022 and Ab 2025.
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