The Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI announced the team squad for Asia Cup 2022 Wednesday. This year, Asia Cup will be held in T20 Format. So BCCI tried to give their best team. This Team is important for the upcoming T20 World Cup which will be held in Australia.
The team has some changes from the recent team. some are out due to injury and some players in stand-by. The most disappointing thing for India fans is that Jasprit Bumrah is out of his back injury.
Virat Kohli, who rested on the West Indies tour, is back on the team. So viewers will watch again their favorite Virat Show. Lokesh Rahul (KL Rahul) came back after a few days. He has recovered from his groin injury. He was also a Covid-19 Positive.
But the Bad news for Shreyas Iyer & Sanju Samson. They could not enter Main Squad. However, they are on the standby list. And, Harshal Patel also misses this tournament for injury.
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Deepak Hooda, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Stand-by players:
Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Deepak Chahar
The team captain is as well as Rohit Sharma. India will start their journey in Asia Cup on 28th August against Pakistan.
India will play two group stage matches on 28 & 31st August 2022. After that, the top two teams from both groups will play in Super Four Stage. The Final match of Asia Cup t20 2022 will be played on 11th August 2022.