Seeing the Indian squad of the Asia Cup, the strange reactions of Pakistanis are coming out. Pakistan’s legendary cricketer Shoaib Akhtar is also shocked to see the strong Team India. In fact, on a Pakistani show, Shoaib Akhtar, Missbah ul Haq and Omar Gul discussed the Indian squad of the Asia Cup. When he saw the combination of Team India, everyone was shocked.

Shoaib Akhtar predicted that in today’s match, the Indian team will bat first, after scoring a big score in front of UAE, the huge win will register. Akhtar was also asked what was his opinion on the Indian squad. When he looked at all 15 players, the words like him fell short.

Man who will sit outside …

Shoaib Akhtar, shocked at the Indian squad, said, “Good Abhishek has also come, Bumrah is also there. Sanju is also Samson, Tilak Bhi, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh is also. Shubman is, Shubman, Surya Hai, Shivam Dubey, Shivam Dubey, Apna Akshar Patel.

The condition of ‘Rawalpindi Express’ Shoaib Akhtar’s face was clearly explaining how the strength of the Indian squad has surprised him. However, Misbah ul Haq and Omar Gul expressed some possibility of UAE’s victory against India after seeing the recent performance of UAE in the Tri -series. But Akhtar remained firm on his reply and said that today the only good thing can be for UAE, it is not to lose badly against India.

In the first match of the Asia Cup 2025, Afghanistan had crushed Hong Kong by 94 runs. At the same time, the Indian team is going to face UAE in the first match today. Pakistan will play its first match with Oman on 12 September.

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The date of 17 September 2023, when the Indian team defeated Sri Lanka by 10 wickets to win the Asia Cup 2023 title. Now in the Asia Cup 2025, Team India will land as defending champions. That victory of the Indian team has been only 2 years, but 7 main players have disappeared from the playing XI including Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The names of these 7 players can surprise you.

India became champion in 2023

The Sri Lankan team was reduced to just 50 runs in the 2023 Asia Cup final. In response, Team India captured the trophy by finishing the match in just 37 balls. In that match, Mohammad Siraj alone took 6 wickets for Team India and Hardik Pandya also took 3 wickets.

Indian playing XI in 2023 Asia Cup final: Ishaan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Jaspreet Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj

Seven players are missing

Out of the 2025 Asia Cup squad, 7 such players are missing, who played in the 2023 Asia Cup final. Of these, 2 biggest names are Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who have said goodbye to T20 cricket only last year. Ravindra Jadeja is also named among these players, he also retired from T20 after the 2024 T20 World Cup. At the same time, Mohammad Siraj has been rested from the Asia Cup after the fatigue of the England Tour.

Ishaan Kishan has not been able to return to Team India after November 2023, while KL Rahul has not been selected in the squad. Washington beautiful has appeared in good form, unfortunately the selectors have not given them a chance in the Asia Cup squad.

These 7 players are not in the squad: Ishaan Kishan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Mohammad Siraj

Indian Squad in Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice -captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

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The Asia Cup starts from 9 September, the first match of which will be played between Afghanistan and Hong Kong on 9 September. At the same time, Team India will start their campaign on September 10 from the match against the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Indian team is placed in Group A along with Pakistan, Oman and UAE. This time the presence of 8 teams will increase the level of competition, but know the 3 reasons here, which makes India win the Asia Cup almost fixed.

1. India did not lose any T20 series in the last one year

Gautam Gambhir became the head coach after becoming the 2024 T20 World Cup winner. Gambhir prepared a young T20 team, which has been captained by Suryakumar Yadav. After the World Cup, the Indian team has won 5 T20 series in a row. India has lost only three T20 matches since the 2024 Zimbabwe Tour. This rhythm can be helpful in becoming a champion for Team India.

2. World No-1 team and defending champion

India has the number-1 position in the T20 rankings. Last year itself, the World Cup is winning and India is the last champion of the Asia Cup. The team has Varun Chakraborty, who is the Asia Cup number-1 bowler in T20. At the same time, Abhishek Sharma is the world’s number-one T20 batsman in the batting, Tilak Verma is on the second. Hardik Pandya is also the world’s number-one T20 all-rounder. When there are so many T20 specialists in the team, then India’s chances of victory will be very high.

3. India has World Class Playing XI Combination

The top players like Shreyas Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal have not been selected in the Indian squad, but there are still players in the squad, which can prepared the world’s top playing eleven combination. Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma opening, then the batsmen like Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav are in the team. Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel and Shivam Dubey are all -rounders. In bowling, apart from young Josh like Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, the team also has spinners like Varun Chakraborty and Kuldeep Yadav, who can turn the match from anywhere. Such a playing eleven combination can be prepared from these players, which will not be easy for other teams to compete.

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There was a ruckus with the announcement of the Indian squad for the Asia Cup. The big veterans raised questions when Shreyas Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal did not get a place. However, even without Iyer-Jayaswal, the combination of the Indian team is looking very strong. Team India also has strong batting and bowling line-ups, while there is also a lot of all-rounders. Now former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi has not been able to stop himself from praising the Indian squad.

India has great …

While discussing a Pakistani channel, Shahid Afridi specially praised the Indian all -rounder players. He said, “To be honest, India has 3 best all -rounders. Nowadays there is very little look in the teams where there are three magnificent all -rounders players.”

Shahid Afridi is talking about Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel and Shivam Dubey here. Afridi said that being such a magnificent all -rounder makes it easy for the team to create a combination and take decisions for the captain. Pakistan’s legendary cricketer further said in the praise of the Indian squad that the playing of all -rounders in the playing XI has a huge impact on the match.

Former Pak team captain Shahid Afridi further said, “All -rounder players never let us know that there is a burden on the team. They are real packages, because often all -rounder matches also work as winners.”

How many batsmen, bowlers and all -rounders in Indian squad

If you look at the Indian squad, there are 7 batsmen in it, in which Abhishek Sharma can bowling if needed. The team has three world -class all -rounders as Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel and Shivam Dubey. At the same time, in fast bowling, India will play Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana and the chief spinner will play Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakraborty.

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Ever since Gautam Gambhir has become the head coach of the Indian cricket team, his record in white ball matches has been excellent. He has also had to be trolled due to mixed performance in the Test series. Now the Asia Cup 2025 pass is coming, which will be played in T20 format. Head coach Gambhir will have a chance to win the third multi-rules tournament to Team India within just 15 months. Earlier, Gambhir’s Under India has won 2024 T20 World Cup and 2025 Champions Trophy. Before the Asia Cup, see how Gautam Gambhir’s coaching record is in T20.

Gautam Gambhir’s report card in T20

Since head coach Gautam Gambhir has become the head coach, the Indian team has played a total of 13 T20 matches, in which it has won 11 times. As a coach Gambhir’s winning percentage in T20 is around 85. Gautam Gambhir became the head coach after the 2024 T20 World Cup. For the first time, he took over as the head coach in the series against Sri Lanka, before that VVS Laxman went as an interim coach on the Zimbabwe Tour. These 2 defeats of Team India in 13 matches have come only against South Africa and England.

After Gambhir became the coach, Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma and especially Varun Chakraborty have shown very well in the T20 team. This is the first time that India will be presenting a claim in the Asia Cup while Gautam Gambhir’s coach.

Gautam Gambhir’s record in Asia Cup

In the Asia Cup tournaments played in ODI format, Gautam Gambhir scored 573 runs in 13 matches at a great average of 44.07, including a century and 5 Half-Sinnuri. Gambhir has never played in the Asia Cup in T20 format. He was last seen playing in the Asia Cup in 2012.

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India batting line-up in asia cup 2025: Team India is already very strong in T20 format. India also won the T20 World Cup (T20 World Cup 2024) in 2024, but at that time the Indian team was commanded by Rohit Sharma. After this World Cup, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced retirement. After this, the command of India’s T20 team came in the hands of Suryakumar Yadav and India’s youth team was ready. India has been performing better in T20 since then.

India’s batting line-up in Asia Cup 2025

The Asia Cup is going to be in T20 format this time. At the same time, the Indian squad includes one of the one older than one. This team was already very strong under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, but now Shubman Gill’s joining the team can create a ruckus in the Asia Cup. Gill has made the Indian batting line-up even stronger.

Shubman Gill can come with Abhishek Sharma to open in India’s playing XI. After this, Tilak Verma can give a strong start to the team at number three. In the middle order, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya will be the batsman to speed up the runs. After this, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma and Akshar Patel can be seen in the role of power hitter. With this batting line-up, India will have batting up to number 8. In the 20 -over game in the Asia Cup, India can bat from the beginning from the beginning.

In Asia Cup Shubman Gill will create ruckus

With the arrival of Shubman Gill, India’s T20 squad has become even more aggressive than before. Gill became the highest run -scorer in the five -Test series played in England recently. Shubman Gill scored more than 750 runs in 5 matches as captain. At the same time, Gill scored 650 runs in 15 innings in IPL 2025. Gill’s batting figures are constantly telling the hunger for runs inside him. On the other hand, if Gill’s bat also attacks in the Asia Cup, then it can be a very profitable deal for India to include this player in the team.

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The next goal of the Indian cricket team is to win the Asia Cup, for which the BCCI has announced Team India on Tuesday. The team has 7 players left handers, the team has 3 all -rounders players. Batting and bowling unit also looks great. Shubman Gill has been elected vice -captain, Jaspreet Bumrah is also included in the team. Although some fans are angry with Shreyas Iyer and many big players, but despite this, this team is a strong contender to win the title.

India’s first match is with the UAE on 10 September, followed by 14 with Pakistan and then the last match of the group stage with Oman on 19 September. India will easily reach Super 4 of the Asia Cup, where it will get a challenge from one of the best 2 teams of its group and the best 2 teams of its group. The second group has teams from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Let’s once look at 15 players selected in Team India’s squad.

7 left handers in Indian team

There are 7 players in the Asia Cup squad who are left handers. They are Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Akshar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav. Out of these, 4 players will play at least in India’s playing 11. Explosive batsman Abhishek Sharma is set to play, he specializes in setting big hits with the first ball. Akshar Patel can also play in almost every match, he also bats well with bowling and is also amazing in fielding.

With Shubman Gill coming back, he can open with Abhishek Sharma, in such a situation, Sanju Samson can handle the middle order. Tilak Verma can play at number three, he is also left handers and can do well on UAE pitches.

Left handers can benefit on Dubai pitch

The initial 2 matches of the group stage will be played at the Bharat Dubai International Cricket Stadium, including the India Pakistan match to be held on 14 September. Dubai’s pitch is helpful for spinners, the Indian team has good spinners in the form of Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty. Although left handers play well against spinners here, that is why it is also a good thing to have so much latency in the team.

Spinners get a lot of turn in Dubai, it is not easy to score runs here and batsmen get trapped here but left -handed batsmen can spoil the line length of spinners here. Tilak Verma, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey are great batsmen, while Akshar Patel also bat well.

Indian team squad for Asia Cup

• Batsman: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-Qetan), Abhishek Sharma, Jitesh Sharma, Sanju Samson, Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma
• All -rounder: Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Shivam Dubey
• Bowler: Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav.

Many big names are out of the Indian Squad of Asia Cup 2025. The stormy opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal is not in the 15 -member Squad Asia Cup. At the same time, despite being in excellent form, Shreyas Iyer has not got a place in the team. Chief selector Ajit Agarkar and captain Suryakumar Yadav announced Team India by holding a press conference. In this press conference, Ajit Agarkar told why Jaiswal and Iyer were not elected.

Why did I not chosen Iyer-Jayaswal?

On the selection of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer, Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar said, “It is very unfortunate for Yashasvi Jaiswal that Abhishek Sharma is doing very well, he can also bowl when he falls. One of them had to be out. Shreyas Iyer will say

Shreyas Iyer’s fault

Ajit Agarkar said about Shreyas Iyer, “There is no mistake of Shreyas Iyer in the lack of selection in the team. I respect him, but whose place he could take, there is no mistake in him or not.”

Shreyas Iyer has not played any T20 match since December 2023, but his recent figures in the white ball format could prove him to be the trump card of Team India in the Asia Cup. Iyer has so far scored 1,104 runs in a 51 -match T20 career at an average of 30.67.

Jaiswal is in standby players

Yashasvi Jaiswal may not have made a place in the 15 -member squad due to team combination, but he has got a place in five standby players. If a player does not play in the tournament due to injury or any other reason, Jaiswal or any other standby player can get a chance to play in the Asia Cup.

Indian Squad for Asia Cup: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (Vice -captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

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The BCCI has announced the Indian cricket team for the Asia Cup 2025. BCCI has announced a 15 -member team for this tournament. Suryakumar Yadav is the captain of the team. At the same time, Shubman Gill has got vice -captain. Jitesh Sharma has also been included in the team. But many big players including Shreyas Iyer have not found a place in the team.

After announcing the team, Suryakumar Yadav said, “We have good players with amazing skills that make my work easy.” At the same time, Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar, taking the names of Shreyas Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal, said that they were not elected in the team, it is neither their fault nor ours.

Indian squad for Asia Cup

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (Vice -captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

#Teamindia‘s squad for the #ASIACUP 2025

Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arashdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana,…

– BCCI (@Bcci) August 19, 2025

India’s match schedule in Asia Cup 2025

• 10 September: Ind vs UAE (Dubai) – 7:30 pm
• 14 September: Ind vs Pak (Dubai) – 7:30 pm
• September 19: Ind vs Oman (Abu Dhabi) – 7:30 pm

Asia Cup plays playing in 2025

A total of 19 matches will be played between 8 teams from 9 September to 28 September in the Asia Cup. 8 teams are divided into 2 groups. Which is as follows.

• Group A: India, Pakistan, Oman and UAE
• Group B: Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Hong Kong

The Asia Cup will be played in 2025 T20 format. First there will be a group stage, in which every team will play 1-1 match with 3 teams of their group. After this, the top 2-2 teams of both groups will enter Super 4 and the remaining 4 teams will be out. In Super 4 too, all teams will play 1-1 matches from each team, after which there will be a final match between the top 2 teams on September 28.

India vs Pakistan match may be 3 times in Asia Cup

India and Pakistan are included in the same group, so a match between the two is scheduled on September 14, but a total of 3 matches between the two are possible in the tournament. If both teams reach Super 4, then one match and will be seen between these two, it is more likely because both are the strongest teams in their group. If both reached the finals, then a total of 3 matches in the Asia Cup will be between these two teams.

The Asia Cup will start from 9 September, the Indian cricket team will start their campaign with the match against UAE from 10 September. After this, on September 14, there will be India vs Pakistan match, which is eyeing the whole world. Both teams do not play bilateral series, so whenever it is face to face in the ICC tournament or ACC tournament, the curiosity increases further. Although the situation is slightly different this time, but despite its advertisements, the demand for this match is being told the most.

Broadcasters also want to capitalize on this opportunity. The media rights of the Asia Cup 2025 is with Sony Picture Network India, live broadcast on TV on Sony Sports Network while live streaming will be on Sony Live app. According to reports, the broadcaster has released the rates of advertisements, the rates for India’s matches are higher and the most demand is about India vs Pakistan match.

India’s advertisement rate in Asia Cup

India’s 3 matches are fixed in the Asia Cup, but there is every possibility that India will enter Super 4. In such a situation, the number of matches will be 6 and if it reaches the final, then India will have a total of 7 matches. If Pakistan also reaches Super 4, then India vs Pakistan will also be finalized, if both teams clash in the finals, then there will be a total of 3 matches between them.

The Business Standard report quoted the Economic Times as saying that Sony Network has fixed the highest rates of India’s matches. These are 14 to 16 lakh rupees per 10 seconds. That is, if the companies want to show their advertisements in India vs Pakistan match, then they will have to pay a hefty amount. In TV advertisements, Rs 18 crore will have to be paid for presenting sponsorship and Rs 13 crore for Associate Sponsorship.

Digital deal for live streaming app

30 crore rupees per company for co-prestige and highlights partner, 18 crore for co-guard by package. 30 percent of digital advertisements have been reserved for India’s matches. The Cricket Asia Cup will be held in UAE from 9 September to 28 September. A total of 19 matches will be played between 8 teams, it will be in T20 format. 8 teams are divided into 2 groups of 4-4.

• Group A: India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE
• Group B: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka.