After a gap of four years, the much-anticipated tournament Asia Cup is back. Let us dive into the Aisa Cup Schedule, squads, and How many teams are participating in Asia Cup 2022? and much more details here at stumps and bails.
The 2022 edition of Asia Cup be the 15th edition of the prestigious tournament. The event is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka. However, due to political and financial crisis in the country the tournament can be likely to held at Bangladesh, nothing is finalized yet regarding this matter as the ACC will decide this after a meeting later this month.
Although, Sri Lanka had successfully hosted 2 major series against big teams in the recent times. Australia just finished their one-month long series yesterday. While during the last week of June and first week of July Indian women’s team were in the Island for 3-match T2OIs and 3-ODIs.
Asia Cup 2022 Schedule:
The Asia Cup 2022 will take place from August 27 to September 2011. The tournament will be played in T20 format. When last time this tournament was played in 2018, it was in 50-over format, but considering the upcoming ICC T20I World Cup in October this year, the Asian Cricket Council planned to host the tournament in twenty-20 format to help teams prepare for the upcoming world cup.
How many teams are participating in Asia Cup 2022?
There will be as many as six teams will lock horns with each other, with 5 test playing are already qualified for the Asia Cup 2022. The remaining one place will be decided with the after qualifiers. Right now there are four teams (UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait) will battle it out in the qualifiers to claim that one spot.
Asia Cup 2022 squads:
India’s squad for Asia Cup 2022
Rohit Sharma (c), Deepak Hooda, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna.
Pakistan’s squad for Asia Cup 2022
Babar Azam ©, Shadab Kha, Mohammad Rizwa, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir, Hasan Ali.
Sri Lanka’s squad for Asia Cup 2022
Dasun Shanaka ©, Pathum Nissanka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Nuwanidu Fernando, Lahiru Madushanka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Kasun Rajitha, Nuwan Thusara, Matheesha Pathirana, Maheesh Theekshana.
Afghanistan’s squad for Asia Cup 2022
Rahmullah Gurbaz, Hazratullah Zazai, Usman Ghani, Darwish Rasooli, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi ©, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Karim Janat, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Nijat Masood, Ihsanullah Janat, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Noor Ahmad, Sharafuddin Ashraf.
Bangladesh’s squad for Asia Cup 2022
Mahmudullah ©, Munim Shahriar, Litton Das, Haque Bijoy, Shakib Al Hasan, Afif Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Yasir Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Shohidul Islam, Nasum Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin.
