India to Host 2025 Asia Cup Trophy
The Asia Cup 2025 will be the 17th edition which will be hosted by India. What we also do know about this tournament is that it will be held in the T20 format.
We are still awaiting on more information around this edition of the tournament but till then here’s what happened in the previous edition of the Asia Cup which was played as an ODI tournament.
The 2023 tournament was co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka. For the first time, the Asia Cup will be hosted in a hybrid model for the first time; four matches in Pakistan and the rest of the nine in Sri Lanka. Six teams are set to participate in this ODI tournament, which is slated from 30 August – 17 September 2023 serving as a warm-up series for the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
Asia Cup Tickets 2025
We will have more information on how to buy the 2025 Asia Cup very soon. Typically speaking, the tickets for matches played in India are sold at Paytm and Insider but that’s more a thing for bilateral series. Let’s wait and watch how the tickets for the 2025 Asia Cup can be bought by the cricket fans.
Tickets for the Asia Cup 2023 in Pakistan went on sale on August 12, 2023 and were available at affordable rates at pcb.bookme.pk to mark the event’s return after 15 years. The tickets for the Sri Lanka leg are to be announced soon. Tickets will also be available offline at retail outlets.
Asia Cup 2025 Schedule
We are still awaiting the schedule for the 2025 edition of the Asia Cup. What we do know is that the tournament will be played in India in October 2025.
What would be interesting to see is if Pakistan tour India or if the matches are played in a hybrid mode like was the case in the previous edition given the security issues between the two countries.
Below is information on the 2023 Asia Cup schedule and match list.
The much-anticipated India vs. Pakistan match of the previous edition of the competition was on September 2 in Kandy. Four matches will take place in Pakistan, with the remaining nine in Sri Lanka. Asia Cup 2023 schedule fixtures list, dates and venues for Asia Cup 2023 are placed below.
| Date | Matches | Venue |
| 30 Aug | Pakistan won by 238 runs against Nepal | Multan, Pakistan |
| 31 Aug | Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets against Bangladesh | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| 2 Sep | Pakistan v India – No result | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| 3 Sep | Bangladesh won by 89 runs against Afghanistan | Lahore, Pakistan |
| 4 Sep | India won by 10 wickets against Nepal | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| 5 Sep | Sri Lanka won by 2 runs against Afghanistan | Lahore, Pakistan |
| SUPER 4s | ||
| 6 Sep | Pakistan vs Bangladesh, Super Fours, 1st Match | Lahore, Pakistan |
| 9 Sep | Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, Super Fours, 2nd Match | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 10 Sep | Pakistan vs India, Super Fours, 3rd Match | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 12 Sep | India vs Sri Lanka, Super Fours, 4th Match | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 14 Sep | Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, Super Fours, 5th Match | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 15 Sep | India vs Bangladesh, Super Fours, 6th Match | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 17 Sep | India vs Sri Lanka, Asia Cup 2023 Final | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| 18 Sep | Reserve day for the final | |
Asia Cup Teams Squad 2025
Asia Cup Teams 2025 squads will be updated below as they are being announced.
The latest Asia Cup 2023 teams squads players list for all six teams is placed below;
| Teams | Squad for Asia Cup 2023 |
| IN | Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (VC), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Prasidh Krishna, Sanju Samson (backup) |
| PK | Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan (vice-captain), Abdullah Shafique, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Shaheen Afridi, Usama Mir, Tayyab Tahir (backup) |
| SL | Dasun Shanaka (captain), Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Mahesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage, Matheesha Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Dushan Hemantha, Binura Fernando, Pramod Madushan |
| AF | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK), Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Karim Janat, Hashmatullah Shahidi(C), Najibullah Zadran, Azmatullah Omarzai, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Mohammad Nabi, Mujib ur Rahman, Naveen ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Rashid Khan, Samiullah Shinwari, Afsar Zazai (WK), Nijat Masoud, Sharafuddin Ashraf, and Qais Ahmad. |
| BN | 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, Mohammad Naim |
| NP | Gyanendra Malla, Dev Khanal, Bhim Sharki, Aarif Sheikh, Sundeep Jora, Rohit Paudel (C), Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (Wk), Pratish GC, Gulsan Jha, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kishore Mahato, Karan KC, Kamal Singh, Arjun Saud (Wk), Sompal Kami, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mousom Dhakal, Lalit Rajbanshi, Kishore Mahato, Surya Tamang. |
Asia Cup 2025 Groups & Format
We will have more information on this once the team list and schedule is announced. Six teams will take part in the 2025 edition of Asia Cup as well with hosts India joined by Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and United Arab Emirates.
Much like the 2023 edition of the tournament, the 2025 Asia Cup’ will see these six teams being split into two groups.
India, Pakistan, and UAE will form the Group A, while Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan are in Group B.
Each team will play two matches apiece in the first round of the competition with the top two sides from that stage moving into the second round, i.e. the Super 4 stage.
In the Super 4 stage, all four teams will face off against the other three sides, making it six more matches during this time with the top two teams making it to the final.
The tournament comprises 13 matches in total, including group stages, Super 4 matches, and a final. The top two teams from each group will advance to the Super 4, and the leading two teams will contest in the final.
Group Stage
Here’re the two groups in the 2025 Asia Cup:
- Group A: India, Pakistan, UAE
- Group B: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Super Four
- Winner of Group A
- Runner-up of Group A
- Winner of Group B
- Runner-up of Group B
Final
- Winner of Super Four vs Runner-up of Super Four
The full squad, schedule has been placed in the sections above.
How did UAE Qualify for Asia Cup 2025?
UAE made it to the Asia Cup 2025 by winning the ACC Men’s Premier Cup in which they defeated Oman in the final.
More information about this can be found in the aforementioned link to the ACC Men’s Premier Cup article.
Asia Cup 2025 Broadcast TV Channels, Live Streaming
Below you have information on how the 2023 edition of the Asia Cup was broadcast. The 2025 information will be released soon.
| Country | Asia Cup 2023 TV Broadcast & Live Stream |
| India & Subcontinent |
Star Sports, Disney+ Hotstar app and website |
| Australia |
Yupp TV |
| South Africa |
SuperSport |
| Bangladesh | Gazi TV (GTV), Rabbithole and the Toffee app and websites |
| Afghanistan | Ariana TV |
| New Zealand |
Yupp TV |
| UK |
TNT Sport 1, TNT Sports app |
| USA |
Disney+Hotstar |
| Sri Lanka | SLRC (Channel Eye) |
| Canada |
Disney+Hotstar |
| Pakistan | Ten Sports, Tapmad app and website |
| MENA |
STARZPLAY via CricLife MAX |
| UAE | CricLife MAX via eLife TV, Switch TV |
Previous Asia Cup Winners
- 1984: India
- 1986: Sri Lanka
- 1988: India
- 1990: India
- 1995: India
- 1997: Sri Lanka
- 2000: Pakistan
- 2004: Sri Lanka
- 2008: Sri Lanka
- 2010: India
- 2012: Pakistan
- 2014: Sri Lanka
- 2016: India
- 2018: India
- 2022: Sri Lanka
- 2023: India
India holds the championship title from the previous event, played as a T20 tournament. They had beaten Sri Lanka in the final after qualifying for it on the back of wins over Sri Lanka and Pakistan and despite losing to Bangladesh in the Super Four stage.
The tournament will feature the 5 full members of the Asian Cricket Council: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka along with UAE, who won the 2024 ACC Men’s Premier Cup.
Photo Credit: BBC Urdu
