Full schedule, venue, and squads list for the Asia Cup 2025 tournament: After considerable deliberation, the Indian team is all set to participate in the upcoming Asia Cup men’s T20 tournament, scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates from September 9 to 28.
India and Pakistan will face each other in Dubai on September 14.
The eight-team tournament will consist of two groups, each comprising four teams. While India, Pakistan, UAE and Oman are placed together in Group A, Group B comprises Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Hong Kong. The top two teams from each group will then proceed to the Super Fours stage, with the top two teams qualifying for the final.
Oman will make their debut in the Asia Cup tournament. The team earlier featured in three T20 World Cup editions, in 2016, 2021 and 2024.
Here’s the full schedule, venue, and squads list for the Asia Cup 2025 tournament:
Asia Cup 2025 full schedule
League stage:
- September 9: Afghanistan vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 10: India vs UAE – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 11: Bangladesh vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 12: Pakistan vs Oman – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 13: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 14: India vs Pakistan – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 15: UAE vs Oman – 5.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 15: Sri Lanka vs Hong Kong – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 16: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 17: Pakistan vs UAE – 7.30 p.m. – Dubai
- September 18: Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 19: India vs Oman – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
Super fours:
- September 20: B1 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 21: A1 vs A2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 23: A2 vs B1 – 7.30 p.m. – Abu Dhabi
- September 24: A1 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 25: A2 vs B2 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- September 26: A1 vs B1 – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
- Final: September 28. – 7.30 p.m.- Dubai
(Asia Cup timings in IST)
Asia Cup 2025 full squads
India squad: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), Harshit Rana and Rinku Singh.
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- Reserve players: Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Pakistan squad: Salman Ali Agha (c), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Waseem Jnr, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufyan Moqim.
Sri Lanka squad: Yet to announce
Afghanistan Squad: Rashid Khan (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Darwish Rasooli, Sediqullah Atal, Azmatullah Omarzai, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mohammad Ishaq, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb ur Rahman, AM Ghazanfar, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen ul Haq.
- Reserve players: Wafiullah Tarakhil, Nangeyalia Kharote, Abdullah Ahmadzai.
Bangladesh squad: Litton Das (c), Jaker Ali, Nurul Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanzid Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mohammad Saifuddin, Nasum Ahmed, Rishad Hossain, Saif Hassabn, Shamim Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakibn, MMustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Taskjin Ahmed
- Reserve players: Soumya Sarkar, Mehidy Hassan Miraz, Tanvir Islam, Hasan Mahmud.
UAE squad: Yet to announce
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Hong Kong squad: Yasim Murtaza (c), Babar Hayat (vc), Zeeshan Ali (wk), Haroon Arshad, Kalhan Challu, Martin Coetzee, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Ali Hassan, Ateeq Iqbal, Aizaz Khan, Anas Khan, Ehsan Khan, Nizakat Khan, Adil Mehmood, Nasrulla Rana, Anshuman Rath, Kinchit Shah, Ayush Shukla, Mohammad Waheed, Shahid Wasif (wk).
Oman squad: Jatinder Singh (c), Vinayak Shukla, Mohammed Nadeem, Hammad Mirza, Aamir Kaleem, Sufyan Mehmood, Ashish Odedra, Shakeel Ahmad, Aryan Bisht, Samay Shrivastava, Karan Sonavale, Hassnain Ali Shah, Muhammed Imran, Sufyan Yousaf, Nadeem Khan, Zikriya Islam, Faisal Shah.