Asia Cup 2025: India select Gill, Bumrah for T20 squad; Jaiswal out

Test skipper Shubman Gill and Jasprit Bumrah made the chopped with Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer the biggest omissions from the 15-man squad.

Defending champions India person named apical bid batter Shubman Gill and gait spearhead Jasprit Bumrah successful their Twenty20 squad for adjacent month’s Asia Cup successful the United Arab Emirates.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and mediate bid batter Shreyas Iyer, however, did not marque Tuesday’s chopped for the 15-member squad, led by Suryakumar Yadav.

Gill, India’s Test captain, has not played a T20 International since July past twelvemonth erstwhile helium was Suryakumar’s lawman connected a circuit of Sri Lanka.

“That’s wherever we started a caller cycle,” said Suryakumar, who took implicit the T20 captaincy from Rohit Sharma aft India won the 20-overs World Cup rubric past year.

“After that, helium got engaged with each the Test series, and helium didn’t get an accidental to play T20s due to the fact that helium was engaged playing Test cricket and Champions Trophy,” Suryakumar told reporters.

“So he’s determination successful the squad, and we’re blessed to person him.”

India besides included Bumrah, whose caller workload has been a large interest for the squad deliberation tank, which played him successful 3 of the 5 Tests successful England successful June and July.

Dynamic opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal was the astir glaring omission from the India squad for the Asia Cup [Paul Childs/Action Images via Reuters]

No country for Jaiswal

With 3 opening options successful Gill, Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson, India could not accommodate Jaiswal.

“With respect to Yashasvi, it’s conscionable unfortunate again,” main selector Ajit Agarkar said.

“There’s Abhishek Sharma – what he’s done implicit the past twelvemonth oregon so, positive helium tin vessel a small bit. He gives america that enactment if required.

“One of these guys was going to miss out, Yashasvi conscionable has to hold for his chance.”

Samson and Jitesh Sharma are the 2 wicketkeepers successful the side, which besides includes left-arm wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav.

India statesman their Group A run against hosts United Arab Emirates successful Dubai earlier gathering archrivals Pakistan astatine the aforesaid venue 4 days later.

The Asia Cup 2025 begins connected September 9.

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