1 Day to go Asia Cup: The Asia Cup will start in just one day. On August 27, the first game of the tournament will be played. All of the teams are in good shape and have sent their best players to UAE. Sri Lanka and Afghanistan will play in the first match.
1 Day to go Asia Cup: The Asia Cup starts in just one day. On August 27, the first game of the tournament will be played. All of the teams are in good shape and have sent their best players to UAE. Sri Lanka and Afghanistan will play in the first match. At the same time, Pakistan and India will play the second match on August 28. Which cricket fans all over the world can’t wait for. India is the defending champion, and this time it is thought to have a good chance of winning.
Why is the match between India and Pakistan important?
The game between India and Pakistan will be very important because India will try to get even with Pakistan for losing to them before. Both teams played in the T20 World Cup the last time they did so. Team Pakistan beat Team India by 10 wickets at that time. In that game, Shaheen bowled well and got India’s best batters, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Virat Kohli, out of the game. After that game, the two teams are back where they started.
Do-it-die situation for Virat Kohli
Let us tell you that doing this in Asia will be important for Virat as well since he hasn’t done well in his last few matches. When Virat last played in a game, it was against England. Even in this series, he didn’t do anything special. In two innings, Virat had only scored 31 runs. Now, the board can show him the way out if he doesn’t walk.
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Team India for Asia Cup
Team India first said who was on it on August 8. Rohit Sharma will be the captain and KL will be the vice-captain. Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, and Avesh Khan.
Pakistan Team for Asia Cup
The Pakistan team’s Playing 11 is Babar Azam (Captain), Mohammad Rizwan (Wicketkeeper), Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jr., Hasnain, and Haris Rauf. Let us tell you that Shaheen Afridi used to play instead of Hasnain. But he can’t play because he hurt himself.
Hong Kong team
The Hong Kong team has also joined the Asia tax this time. By beating UAE by 8 wickets today, the team made it to the Asia Cup. Singapore had been beaten by the team before. If we talk about the team squad, Yasim Mortaza, Babar Hayat, Kinchit Shah, Ejaz Khan, Scott McKennie (wk), Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Ehsan Khan, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Ayush Shukla, Wajid Shah, Aftab Hussain, Dhananjay Rao, Mohammad Waheed, Ahan Trivedi, and Ateeq Iqbal are all included in a team.
