Asia Cup 2025: Schedule, teams, squads, venues, format, timings, live streaming details and all you need to know

Asia Cup 2025 will witness a battle among eight teams for the title.

The 17th edition of the Asian Cricket Council’s (ACC) Men’s Asia Cup is all set to begin on 9th September, 2025. This will be the third T20I edition of the tournament and will work as preparatory campaign for teams ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka next year. The tournament, which will see eight teams battle, will see the summit clash on September 28.

Eight teams have been divided into two groups – A and B. India, Pakistan, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are placed in Group A, while Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Hong Kong are clubbed in Group B.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are two venues that will host all the matches of Asia Cup 2025. A total of 19 games will be played during the tournament with Afghanistan and Oman locking horns in the tournament opener on September 9.

Notably, this will be the third time that the Asia Cup will be played in the T20I format. Previously, the 2016 and 2022 editions were played in T20I format.

Since the tournament’s inception in 1984, India have won the most number of titles (8) in the Asia Cup history. Sri Lanka are next with six titles in their kitty. Pakistan have won the tournament on two occasions.

Asia Cup 2025 Schedule

Asia Cup 2025 Teams

Eight teams are part of the Asia Cup 2025. They are India, Pakistan, UAE, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. All these teams are divided into two groups. India, Pakistan, Oman, and the UAE are placed in Group A. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong are part of Group B.

Asia Cup 2025 Venues

Despite the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) being the hosts, Asia Cup 2025 will be played in the UAE due to political conflict between India and Pakistan. Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai and Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi are the two venues which will host the entire tournament.

Asia Cup 2025 Format

The tournament will see a double round-robin format, where eight teams have been divided into two groups of four teams each. All four teams in the same group will face other three teams once in the group stage before the top two teams from each group proceed to the Super Four round, where they will face other three teams once.

At the end of Super Four round, the top two teams in the points table will then make it to the finals, which will be played on September 28.

Asia Cup 2025 Squads

India: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

Afghanistan: Rashid Khan (C), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Darwish Rasooli, Sediqullah Atal, Azmatullah Omarzai, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mohammad Ishaq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Allah Ghazanfar, Noor Ahmad, Farid Malik, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Bangladesh: Litton Das (C), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Saif Hassan, Tawhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali Anik, Shamim Hossain, Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Shaif Uddin

Hong Kong: Yasim Murtaza (C), Babar Hayat, Zeeshan Ali, Niazakat Khan Mohammad, Nasrulla Rana, Martin Coetzee, Anshuman Rath, Kalhan Marc Challu, Ayush Ashish Shukla, Mohammad Aizaz Khan, Ateeq ul Rehman Iqbal, Kinchit Shah, Adil Mehmood, Haroon Mohammad Arshad, Ali Hassan, Shahid Wasif, Ghazanfar Mohammad, Mohammad Waheed, Anas Khan, Ehsan Khan

Oman: Jatinder Singh (C), Hammad Mirza, Vinayak Shukla, Sufyan Yousuf, Ashish Odedera, Aamir Kaleem, Mohammed Nadeem, Sufyan Mehmood, Aryan Bisht, Karan Sonavale, Zikriya Islam, Hassnain Ali Shah, Faisal Shah, Muhammed Imran, Nadeem Khan, Shakeel Ahmad, Samay Shrivastava.

Pakistan: Salman Ali Agha (C), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Waseem Jnr, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Afridi, Sufyan Moqim.

Sri Lanka: Charith Asalanka (C), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera, Nuwanidu Fernando, Kamindu Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Wellalage, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushmantha Chameera, Binura Fernando, Nuwan Thushara, Matheesha Pathirana.

UAE: Muhammad Waseem (C), Alishan Sharafu, Aryansh Sharma, Asif Khan, Dhruv Parashar, Ethan D’Souza, Haider Ali, Harshit Kaushik, Junaid Siddique, Matiullah Khan, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Jawadullah, Muhammad Zohaib, Rahul Chopra, Rohid Khan, Simranjeet Singh, Saghir Khan.

Asia Cup 2025 Live Streaming details

Live streaming of Asia Cup 2025 will be available on SonyLiv app and website in India. The live telecast will be available on Sony Sports Channels.

Details of other countries to be updated soon.

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