Asia cup 2025: The Indian team has been announced for the Asia Cup 2025. The selectors’ meeting was held in Mumbai. In which 15 players were selected. Where Surya Kumar Yadav has been made the captain for the Asia Cup. At the same time, Shubman Gill has got the role of vice -captain while shocking everyone. Apart from Shubman Gill, Jaspreet Bumrah has also been included in the team. Bumrah was injured in the last match of the England Test series. At the same time, the most shocking thing is that Shreyas Iyer has not been included in the team.
What did Ajit Agarkar say?
Chief selector Ajit Agarkar said, “This is not his (Shreyas) mistake. But, you tell me, whose place should he come in the team? He will have to wait for now.” He further said, “The only thing is that you can choose 15 players and at the moment he will have to wait for his opportunity,”.
Shreyas’s brilliant performance
Shreyas’s exit from the team is surprising for many people as they have performed brilliantly in T20 cricket in the last two seasons. In the IPL 2025, he scored more than 600 runs, captaining Punjab Kings (PBKS) and his strike rate was 175.07. This figure is the third best among the batsmen scoring 600+ runs. Ahead of him is only Chris Gayle (2011) and Suryakumar Yadav (2023). His game has been very strong, especially against spin bowlers, which makes him a strong option in the middle order.
Amazing in IPL
In the last two years, Shreyas has also achieved great success in domestic and franchise cricket. He won the IPL Trophy in 2024 after 10 years to Kolkata Knight Riders. Syed Mushtaq Ali won the Trophy for the Mumbai team. In the Mumbai T20 League, Sobo took Mumbai Falcons to the final. Also, he also took Punjab Kings to the final of IPL 2025.
Not only T20, he also did wonders in red ball cricket. He played an important role in winning Mumbai in Ranji Trophy and then in 2023-24. Apart from this, he also contributed significantly to India to win the Champions Trophy this year.
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Significantly, Shreyas played his last T20 International match against Australia in Bengaluru, where he played a match -winning innings of 53 runs under difficult circumstances.
Indian team for Asia Cup 2025:
Surya Kumar Yadav (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-Qetan), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.
Standby player: Famous Krishna, Washington Sundar, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurael and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
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