The Asia Cup 2025 hosts are India but will be played in UAE compared to it. The reason for this is the poor relations of India and Pakistan. If the Asia Cup matches were held in India, Pakistan could have done a boys for the tournament or he would have demanded to be held in some other country. The BCCI decided to take the middle way to the tournament in UAE and made it useless Pakistan’s attempt to create any dispute.
The Asia Cup is to be played after two years. Last time this tournament was played in ODI format. This time it will be played in T20 format. Players have also changed with changing the format. In 2023, when India won the Asia Cup after defeating Sri Lanka, Rohit Sharma was the captain and Virat Kohli was the biggest star of the team. Both these players have now retired from T20 and Test formats. Therefore, there was no question of being selected in his team. Yes, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal were contestants to be elected in the team but the selectors did not consider him worthy.
Indo-Pak collision on 14 September
8 teams will participate in the Asia Cup, which are divided into two groups of 4-4. Group A has Pakistan, UAE and Oman with India. Group B has Hong Kong with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan. India will start its campaign on September 10, but the fans will wait more than 14 September. India and Pakistan will be played on 14 September.
Indian Team: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice -captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Jaspreet Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh. Reserve: Famous Krishna, Washington Sundar, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurael, Yashasvi Jaiswal.