The Asia Cup is to start from 9 September. The Indian team will start their campaign against UAE on 10 September. But before that the Indian players will be seen playing in the Dalip Trophy. The Dilip Trophy will start from August 28, which will be played by 15 September. A total of 6 teams will participate in this tournament. The tournament will be played in the knockout format.

Indian players will spread in the Dalip Trophy before Asia Cup

A total of 6 teams are participating in this tournament. Which includes the names of North Zone, East Zone, Central Zone, North East Zone, South Zone and West Zone. Some Indian players of the Asia Cup team will be seen playing in this tournament.

Kuldeep Yadav will be part of the Central Zone team. At the same time, fast bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana will play for North Zone. Tilak Verma will be the captain of the South Zone team.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurael will also be seen playing in the Dalip Trophy. All these players have been included in the Asia Cup team as a reserve player. Jaiswal will be part of the West Zone team. Ryan Parag will be seen playing for the East Zone. At the same time, Jurael will captain the Central Zone.

Dilip Trophy schedule

The Dalip Trophy will start from August 28. Where the first quarterfinal will be played between North Zone and East Zone. The second quarter-finals will be played between Central Zone and North East Zone. At the same time, South Zone and East Zone were finalists in the last edition, so she has already reached the semi -finals.

The semi -finals will be played from 4 September to 7 September. While the final match will be played from 11 September. All the matches of the Dalip Trophy will be played at the BCCI Center of Excellence Ground in Bangalore.

These star players will also be part of the Dalip Trophy

Ishaan Kishan, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Rituraj Gaikwad, Sarfaraz Khan, Rajat Patidar, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Akashdeep will also be seen playing in the Dalip Trophy.

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The Asia Cup 2025 is to start from 9 September. The 15 -member Indian team was selected for this tournament. Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian team will land with the intention of winning the Asia Cup. Shubman Gill has returned after about 1 year in the team. He has been made the vice -captain. In such a situation, let’s look at those three players who can score runs in the Asia Cup.

These three Indian players can score runs in Asia Cup

1- Suryakumar Yadav

Captain Surya’s record in T20 International has been excellent. Surya has a strike rate of 167 in T20 International. Surya has performed brilliantly for India on many occasions. Surya also had a great performance in IPL 2025.

Surya created panic with the bat while playing for Mumbai Indians. Surya was the second highest run -scorer in the IPL this year. Surya hit 717 runs at an average of 65.18 and a strike rate of around 168.

2- Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill has returned to the Indian team after about a year. But in the Asia Cup, Gill can create panic with the bat. Gill’s recent performance has been excellent. Gill scored more than 750 runs in the Test series in England.

Earlier, Gill also batted brilliantly in IPL 2025. Gill scored 650 runs at an average of 50. Gill had a strike rate of about 156 in the IPL. Looking at Gill’s recent performance, it seems that in the Asia Cup too, his bat can be scored with his bat.

3- Tilak Verma

Left -handed batsman Tilak Verma has performed brilliantly in T20 for India. Tilak has scored 749 runs in 25 matches at an average of around 50. During this time he has also had a great strike rate of 155.07. Tilak has scored three half -centuries and two centuries during this period.

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