The Asia Cup 2025 is going to be held in September. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has not officially confirmed this, but according to reports the Asia Cup will be held till September 5-21 September. 8 teams including India and Pakistan will participate in this tournament. India vs Pakistan Match (IND vs Pak Asia Cup) has not yet come updated, but this question is definitely being asked whether Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will play in the Asia Cup?

Will Rohit-Virat play in Asia Cup or not?

The Asia Cup was last held in the year 2023. At that time the tournament was played in ODI format, but this time the matches will be played in T20 format. Therefore, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will not play in the upcoming Asia Cup 2025, as both have retired from T20 format. Virat and Rohit announced his retirement from T20 cricket after a historic victory in the final of the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were last seen playing in the Indian jersey in the Champions Trophy 2025. On 9 March 2025, Team India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets in the final of the Champions Trophy. A few days later, during the IPL 2025, both of them also took retirement from Test format and brought a stir in the cricket world.

How many times has India won the Asia Cup?

The Asia Cup was organized for the first time in the year 1984, after which a total of 16 times the Asia Cup has been organized. India, which has won this tournament the most often, has won the Trophy of Asia Cup, a total of 8 times. Even the defending champions are India, which defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the final of the 2023 Asia Cup. Apart from this, Sri Lanka has won this tournament 6 times and Pakistan twice.

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Asia cup 2025 schedule: There is news about the Asia Cup 2025 that a big decision can be taken on the tournament in the first week of July. It has been reported that the Asia Cup can begin from September 10. Earlier reports were revealed that the UAE as well as the UAE can be declared the co-genre of the Asia Cup as the Pak team will not come to India to play. Now according to the new update, this uncertainty regarding the Asia Cup schedule may end very soon.

According to Cricbuzz, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) can release the schedule in the first week of July. Let us tell you that the Asia Cup is to be played in T20 format, in which a total of 6 teams will participate. After the ACC meeting in July, the schedule can be approved. There will be 6 teams participating in the tournament, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and UAE.

After the tension between India and Pakistan last months, the situation is still not clear when Team India participates in the Asia Cup. Last month, BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia rejected the rumors of the Indian team not participating in the Asia Cup. Now quoting Inside Sport, a BCCI source said that the board is currently waiting for the response of the Government of India in this regard.

This year, the Women’s ODI World Cup is going to be, which will be played with a round-robin format, so each team will definitely face each other once. BCCI nor PCB has raised any objection to this schedule. As far as the Asia Cup 2025 is concerned, the boards of the two countries will be well aware of the fact that if any of them withdraw the name from the Asia Cup, it can have a bad effect on the upcoming ICC and ACC events.

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