Asia Cup 2025: The Indian cricket team is currently the winning team of the Asia Cup along with the Champion Trophy. In such a situation, it is not going to be less than a challenge for Team India to maintain this credibility in future. This year, the Asia Cup 2025 is also going to be held in India hosted. Being the champion team of the Asia Cup last time, the Indian team will also try to name its title this time. In such a situation, coach Gautam Gambhir's Team India has already started preparing for it.
Before the Asia Cup 2025, a bad news is coming out for the fans of RO-KO i.e. Rohit-Virat. Actually, in the Asia Cup 2025, both these star players will not be seen playing for India. The last time both these players contributed significantly to bring the Asia Cup trophy to India. In such a situation, this time the absence of these two synier players in Team India remains a matter of concern. Let us now know why Rohit and Virat Kohli will not be a part of Team India in the Asia Cup 2025?
Significantly, the first Asia Cup is held in ODI format. But for some time, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made the Asia Cup format in T20 format. If we talk about Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, then both these players announced retirement from this format after winning the T20 World Cup in the year 2024. This is the reason that in the Asia Cup 2025, Virat-Rohit will not be able to play with Team India. Please tell this time the Asia Cup will be played in September-October.
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This time Team India will play the Asia Cup 2025 under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav. Suryukumar's record in terms of captaincy has been quite good. He has not lost a single bilateral series under his captaincy. This will be the first multinational tournament for him as captain. Apart from Suryakumar, most of the young players will be present. It is believed that wicketkeeper batsman Ishaan Kishan may also return in the team. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Akshar Patel will take over the batting. While the bowling will be commanded by veteran Jaspreet Bumrah. On the other hand, players like Harshit Rana, Mohammad Siraj, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnnoi can also become part of the team.