Here are the list of players and teams who will be featuring in the upcoming edition of The Asia Cup beginning this month.
The total of six teams will featuring in this event. Group A features India. Pakistan and Hongkong, while Group B consists Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh respectively.
Group A
India:
Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja (Axar Patel), R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh &
Ravindra Jadeja has been ruled out of the ongoing Asia Cup due to knee injury and will be replaced by Axar Patel.
Avesh Khan has been ruled out of the Asia Cup due to illness and will be replaced by Deepak Chahar
Standbys: Shreyas Iyer
Pakistan speedster Wasim Jr has been ruled out due to back injury and will be replaced by Hasan Ali.
Pakistan:
Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Wasim Jr (Hasan Ali), Naseem Shah, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir, and Mohammad Hasnain.
Hong Kong
Nizakat Khan (c), Kinchit Shah, Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Babar Hayat, Aftab Hussain, Ateeq Iqbal, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Scott McKechnie (wk), Ghazanfar Mohammad, Yasim Murtaza, Dhananjay Rao, Wajid Shah, Ayush Shukla, Ahan Trivedi, and Mohammad Waheed.
Group B
Afghanistan:
Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Afsar Zazai, Azmatullah Omarzai, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Karim Janat, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Najibullah Zadran, Naveen ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rashid Khan, and Samiullah Shinwari.
Standbys: Nijat Masood, Qais Ahmed, and Sharafuddin Ashraf.
Bangladesh:
Shakib Al Hasan (c), Anamul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Sabbir Rahman, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain , Parvez Hossain Emon, and Mohammad Naim
Sri Lanka:
Dasun Shanaka (c), Danushka Gunathilaka, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Ashen Bandara, Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Praveen Jayawickrama, Chamika Karunaratne, Dilshan Madushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Nuwanidu Fernando, Nuwan Thusara & Dinesh Chandimal.