The 2023 Asia Cup will be held between August 30 and September 17 in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. After an inordinate delay, the schedule and venues for the continental tournament were confirmed last month with the matches to be played across two countries following India’s refusal to send their team to Pakistan.
A total of four matches will be played in Pakistan while nine in Sri Lanka across four venues including Multan, Pallekele, Lahore and Colombo.
Six teams are part of the tournament this time around which will be played in the one-day format. Besides Pakistan, which keep the hosting rights, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are part of the competition.
The teams have been divided into two groups of three each with India, Pakistan and Nepal in Group A. Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are in Group B.
The top two teams from each group will advance to the next round called Super Fours. The top-two teams of the second round will contest for the title on September 17 at R Premadasa Stadium.
So far four teams have named their squads
India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (VC), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
Travelling stand-by player: Sanju Samson
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Tayyab Tahir, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi.
Nepal: Rohit Paudel (c), Mahamad Asif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Bhim Sharki, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan LC, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Arif Sheikh, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Kishor Mahato, Sundeep Jora, Arjun Saud, Shyam Dhakal
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan (c), Litton Das, Tanjid Hasan Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Shamim Hossain, Afif Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Ebadot Hossain (withdrawn), Mohammad Naim, Tanzim Hasan
Sri Lanka: TBA
Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Gulbadin Naib, Karim Janat, Abdul Rahman, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Suliman Safi, Fazalhaq Farooqi
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