New Delhi, Aug 10: The Asia Cup 2022 will be held in the United Arab Emirates between August 27 and September 11 where six teams from the continent will be fighting for the coveted trophy. Unlike 2018 when it was held in the ODI format, the tournament will be held in the T20 format this time around. The previous edition of the tournament was also hosted in the UAE.
This will be the 15th edition of the continental tournament which will have six teams in the main event. Defending champions India are also the most successful team, having won the trophy seven times. India defeated Bangladesh in the 2018 Asia Cup final under the leadership of the then-stand-in captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit will now be leading India this year as a full-time skipper.
The six teams are divided into two groups India, Pakistan, and Hong Kong - winners of the Qualifiers - have been put in Group A. While Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan comprise Group B.
Each team plays the other once in the group stage the top two teams from each group will advance to the Super 4 round. The top 2 teams from Super 4 will qualify for the final.
India and Pakistan were the first two teams to announce their squads for the multi-nation event.
Here we take a look at all the squads and captains for this year's tournament:
Group A
India: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan. Standby: Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Deepak Chahar.
Captain: Rohit Sharma
Pakistan: Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Mohammed Hasnain, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir.
Captain: Babar Azam
Qualifier: Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Yasim Murtaza, Nizakat Khan, Babar Hayat, Kinchit Shah, Aizaz Khan, Scott McKechnie(w), Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Ehsan Khan, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Ayush Shukla, Wajid Shah, Aftab Hussain, Dhananjay Rao, Mohammad Waheed, Ahan Trivedi, Ateeq Iqbal.
Captain: Nizakat Khan
Group B
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Ashen Bandara, Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Praveen Jayawickrama, Chamika Karunaratne, Dilshan Madushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Nuwanidu Fernando, Dushmantha Chameera, Dinesh Chandimal.
Captain: Dasun Shanaka
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Musaddek Hossain Saikat, Mahmud Ullah, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Shaif Uddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Shabbir Rahaman, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain, Parvez Hossain Emon, Md Naim
Captain: Shakib-al-Hasan
Afghanistan: Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Afsar Zazai, Azmatullah Omarzai, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Karim Janat, Mujib ur Rahman, Najibullah Zadran, Naveen ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rashid Khan and Samiullah Shinwari. Reserves: Nijat Masoud, Qais Ahmad, and Sharafuddin Ashraf
Captain: Mohammed Nabi