The All-India Senior Selection Committee has pick India’s squad for the upcoming Asia Cup 2022 to be play from 27th August to 11th September 2022.
The 15th edition of the tournament will be play in the UAE between six teams (main event).
Defending champions India are also the most successful team, having won the trophy 7 times.
And the last edition of the tournament was held in an ODI format, this edition will feature the T20 format.
The six teams are divide into two groups with India, Pakistan and a qualifying team in Group A and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan forming Group B.
Each team plays the other once in the group stage with the top two teams from each group advancing to the Super 4 round.
The top 2 teams from Super 4 will qualify for the final.
Rohit Sharma will lead the team, while former captain Virat Kohli is back in the squad after a break.
Premier paceman Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the tournament due to an injury.
KL Rahul return to the Indian squad as vice-captain after recovering from injury and COVID-19.
Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik are the two wicket-keeping options in the squad of 15.
Three specialist spinners are part of the squad which includes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi.
Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja are the two all-rounders.
Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav are the two batting options.
In Bumrah’s absence the pace attack will be led by the experienced Bhuvneshwar Kumar with youngsters Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh.
India’s squad for Asia Cup
- Rohit Sharma (Captain),
- KL Rahul (vice-captain),
- Virat Kohli,
- Suryakumar Yadav,
- Deepak Hooda,
- Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper),
- Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper),
- Hardik Pandya,
- Ravindra Jadeja,
- R. Ashwin,
- Yuzvendra Chahal,
- Ravi Bishnoi,
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar,
- Arshdeep Singh,
- Avesh Khan
Note
• Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel were not available for selection owing to injuries. They are currently undergoing rehab at the NCA in Bengaluru.
• Three players Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel and Deepak Chahar have been named as standbys.
Asia Cup 2022 Live Streaming and Live Telecast Details
In India
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on the Star Sports network in India and Disney + Hotstar will stream the online coverage of the event.
The same network will provide live coverage to Asia Cup 2022 in other subcontinent regions like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
In Pakistan
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on PTV Sports and Ten Sports, the former has the exclusive rights for the event for both TV and online streaming.
In Bangladesh
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on Gazi TV (GTV) in Bangladesh
In Australia and New Zealand
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on Yupp TV in the Oceania countries of Australia and New Zealand.
In South Africa
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on the SuperSport network while online streaming will take place on SuperSport.com.
In USA and UK
Asia Cup 2022 will be streaming on Hotstar in USA and UK.
In the Middle East
Asia Cup 2022 will be telecaste on OSN Sports Cricket HD.
