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India Squad For Asia Cup: Shubman Gill Named Vice-Captain, Jaiswal And Iyer Miss Out

India Asia Cup 2025 Squad: Ending weeks of speculation, India has finally announced the squad for the Asia Cup T20I tournament. The T20I. Men’s senior chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar announced the Asia Cup T20I squad.

The announcement of the 15-member squad came with a few surprises, both in terms of inclusions and omissions. With limited spots available, several notable players missed out on selection, including: Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Washington Sundar and Prasidh Krishna.

Chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar said “It’s very unfortunate for Yashasvi Jaiswal, with Abhishek doing well, he can bowl as well – one of the two was going to miss out – same with Shreyas, not his fault”.

Check out the full Indian men’s Asia Cup T20I squad below:

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

Pakistan announced its squad two days ago. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were conspicuous by their absence from the team.

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

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