Latest Cricket News and Updates on Asia Cup 2023
Get ready to watch Asia Cup 2023 live on YuppTV from August 30 to September 17, and enjoy nonstop cricket coming your way. Co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the Asia Cup will have six nations fight for the coveted title. As the marquee event is all set to begin tomorrow, let us look at the latest news and updates.
For the first time in its four-decade history, Asia Cup is hosted by multiple nations. Although the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) designated Pakistan to host this edition, Sri Lanka was chosen as another host as the Indian team has expressed concerns about traveling to Pakistan for safety reasons. ACC decided to follow a hybrid model for the first time. Besides the hosts Pakistan and Sri Lanka, four other Asian teams, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal, will participate in the tournament.
As the championship rotates between ODI and T20 formats alternately, the 2023 edition takes place in the ODI format. The tournament will have six teams divided into two groups, Group A and B.
Group A: India, Pakistan and Nepal
Group B: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan
There will be 13 matches, including 6 group stages, 6 Super 4s, and one final. Every team will play against every other in the group stage once in a round-robin format. The two best-performing teams in this stage will qualify for Super 4s. The top two teams from the Super 4 stage will enter the final.
India’s star batter, KL Rahul, is likely to miss the Ind vs Pak game due to the niggle after his surgery. Ishan Kishan is expected to keep the wickets. Also, the Indian team picked Sanju Samson as backup for KL Rahul. India’s head coach Rahul Dravid confirmed that KL Rahul will be unavailable for the first two games as the team does not want to take any risk with him.
Injuries have hit the Sri Lankan camp as most of their star players might be unavailable for the Asia Cup. Leg-spinning all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga, Pacers Dushmantha Chameera, Lahiru Madushanka, and Lahiru Kumara are among these suffered injuries. Binura Fernando and Pramod Madushan are included to replace them.
Here are the squads for the Asia Cup
India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, and Sanju Samson (back up)
Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (captain), Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Tayyab Tahir, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi
Nepal: Rohit Paudel (captain), Mahamad Asif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Bhim Sharki, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Aarif Sheikh, Sompal Kami, Pratish GC, Kishor Mahato, Sundeep Jora, Arjun Saud, Shyam Dhakal
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Litton Das, Tanzid Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Sheikh Mahedi, Nasum Ahmed, Shamim Hossain, Afif Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Ebadot Hossain, Naim Sheikh
Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Gulbadin Naib, Karim Janat, Abdul Rahman, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Suliman Safi, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka ©, Pathum Nissanaka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Janith Perera, Kusal Mendis (vc), Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage, Matheesha Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Dushan Hemantha, Binura Fernando, Pramod Madushan.
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