Asia Cup 2025: Full squads list of teams and players

The apical men’s cricket teams successful Asia volition travel unneurotic aft 2 years to vie successful the Asian Cricket Council’s (ACC) T20 Asia Cup 2025 from Tuesday.

Several caller captains volition beryllium starring their charges with satellite T20 champions and Asia Cup holders India to beryllium led by Suryakumar Yadav, portion Charith Asalanka volition beryllium astatine the helm of 2023 runners-up Sri Lanka.

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Here’s what you request to cognize astir the teams and their afloat squads for the tournament:

Which teams are playing successful the Asia Cup 2025?

In summation to the 5 imperishable members of the ACC – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – 3 different teams person qualified for the 2025 edition: Hong Kong, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. They are divided into 2 groups of 4 each:

Group A: India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE
Group B: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Hong Kong

Will Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma play successful the Asia Cup 2025?

No. The 2 erstwhile India captains announced their retirements aft starring their squad to their 2nd T20 World Cup rubric successful the West Indies successful 2024. It was Kohli’s archetypal T20 satellite title, portion Rohit lifted the trophy for the 2nd time, having been portion of India’s triumphant broadside astatine the inaugural T20 World Cup successful 2007 successful South Africa.

Suryakumar took implicit the T20 captaincy reins from Rohit successful August 2024, portion the likes of Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill person replaced some top-order batters.

India volition support their Asia Cup rubric without superstars Virat Kohli, left, and Rohit Sharma, who person retired from T20 cricket [File: Chandan Khanna/AFP]

Who is Pakistan’s skipper astatine Asia Cup 2025?

The revolving-door quality of Pakistan cricket means the captain’s chapeau changes hands – oregon heads – reasonably quickly.

Batting prima Babar Azam had the relation fixed and taken from him doubly successful the abstraction of 11 months successful 2023-24, portion Mohammad Rizwan held the relation for 5 months.

The incumbent, Salman Ali Agha, took implicit successful March and has since led Pakistan to 2 bid wins and 1 bid loss.

He volition proceed successful the enactment relation astatine the Asia Cup.

Will Wanindu Hasaranga play successful the Asia Cup 2025?

Yes, the Sri Lankan leg-spin bowling all-rounder has been declared acceptable for the tourney pursuing his betterment from a hamstring injury. The 28-year-old missed retired connected the 2023 variation astatine location and volition beryllium keen to marque an interaction arsenic Sri Lanka question a seventh Asia Cup title.

𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 🇵🇰

A fresh-looking squad gears up for the #ACCMensAsiaCup2025 – with each eyes connected Salman Ali Agha, who takes the reins arsenic skipper successful his archetypal large tourney 👊#ACC pic.twitter.com/UGvL8aFOis

— AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) August 17, 2025

What are the afloat squads of each Asia Cup 2025 teams?

Afghanistan

Rashid Khan (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Darwish Rasooli, Sediqullah Atal, Azmatullah Omarzai, Karim Janat, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mohammad Ishaq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, AM Ghazanfar, Noor Ahmad, Fareed Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi.

Bangladesh

Litton Das (captain, wicketkeeper), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Saif Hassan, Towhid Hridoy, Jaker Ali, Shamim Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzim Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mohammad Saifuddin.

Hong Kong

Yasim Murtaza (captain), Babar Hayat, Zeeshan Ali (wicketkeeper), Nizakat Khan Mohammad, Nasrulla Rana, Martin Coetzee, Anshuman Rath, Kalhan Marc Challu, Ayush Ashish Shukla, Mohammad Aizaz Khan, Ateeq ul Rehman Iqbal, Kinchit Shah (wicketkeeper), Adil Mehmood, Haroon Arshad Mohammad, Ali Hassan, Shahid Wasif (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Ghazanfar, Mohammad Waheed, Anas Khan, Ehsan Khan.

India

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube , Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper).

Oman

Jatinder Singh (captain), Hammad Mirza (wicketkeeper), Vinayak Shukla (wicketkeeper), Sufyan Yousuf, Ashish Odedara, Aamir Kaleem, Mohammed Nadeem, Sufyan Mehmood, Aryan Bisht, Karan Sonavale, Zikriya Islam, Hassnain Shah, Faisal Shah, Muhammed Imran, Nadeem Khan, Shakeel Ahmed, Samay Shrivastava.

Pakistan

Salman Agha (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem.

Sri Lanka

Charith Asalanka (captain), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wicketkeeper), Kusal Perera (wicketkeeper), Nuwanidu Fernando, Kamindu Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Wellalage, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushmantha Chameera, Binura Fernando, Nuwan Thushara, Matheesha Pathirana.

United Arab Emirates

Muhammad Waseem (capt), Alishan Sharafu, Aryansh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Asif Khan, Dhruv Parashar, Ethan D’Souza, Haider Ali, Harshit Kaushik, Junaid Siddique, Matiullah Khan, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Jawadullah, Muhammad Zohaib, Rahul Chopra (wicketkeeper), Rohid Khan, Simranjeet Singh and Saghir Khan.