Indian squad for Asia Cup 2022: The Asia Cup 2022 is scheduled to begin on August 27 and run through September 11, and Team India will enter the tournament as the defending champion.

This time, the tournament will be played in T20 format. When this competition was last contested in 2018, it was in a 50-over style. However, the Asian Cricket Council planned to stage the tournament in a twenty-20 format to aid teams in getting ready for the ICC T20I World Cup in October of this year.

The official schedule of the Asia Cup 2022 is not been announced as of now, but as per media reports team India will start their campaign against Pakistan on August 28 and will be eyeing to take revenge as when the last time both met India suffered a dreary 10-wicket defeat against the neighbours in the T20 World Cup 2021.

India’s squad for Asia Cup 2018 Vs 2022:

When the last time Asia Cup was held in 2018, team India won the title under Rohit Sharma by defeating Bangladesh in the finals by 3 wickets.

While Virat Kohli was the all-format captain of team India at the time, but considering his workload, selectors gave him rest and handed the captaincy to Rohit Sharma in his absence with Shikhar Dhawan as Sharma’s deputy.

The Indian middle order in 2018 was a lot different from this edition’s squad as this time there will no MS Dhoni in the squad as the legendary captain already took retirement from international cricket, so as Ambati Rayudu. While the other middle order batters like Manish Pandey, Kedhar Jadhav not the part of current team scheme.

Hardik Pandya will remain the common all-rounder in both squads, while Ravindra Jadeja was not the part of 2018’s squad but he will be there in 2022’s one.

Bowlers, however, are almost similar with 1-2 changes.

Common players in team India squad for 2018 vs 2022:

Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah

Team India’s squad for Asia Cup 2018:

Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar Dhawan (VC) , KL Rahul, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed.

Team India’s Predicted squad for Asia Cup 2022:

Batters: Rohit Sharma (c), Deepak Hooda, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav,

Wicket-keepers: Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik

All-rounders: Hardik Pandya,   Ravindra Jadeja,

Bowlers:  Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna