{"id":79665,"date":"2025-08-19T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79665\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:21:19","slug":"indian-cricket-team-for-asia-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79665\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian cricket team for Asia Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suryakumar Yadav will captain the 15-member Indian squad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/asia-cup-2025-cricket-date-schedule-fixtures-matches-list\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;BD\\&quot;,\\&quot;BT\\&quot;,\\&quot;IN\\&quot;,\\&quot;MV\\&quot;,\\&quot;NP\\&quot;,\\&quot;PK\\&quot;,\\&quot;LK\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;e78957cc-ff99-4f5d-9875-f74981ea9f05&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-08-19T09:28:21.011Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav returns to lead Indian cricket team; Shubman Gill vice-captain - full squad&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-cricket\\&quot;,\\&quot;sportzinteractive\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-in\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav returns to lead Indian cricket team; Shubman Gill vice-captain - full squad&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;asia-cup-2025-indian-cricket-team-squad&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-cricket&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;CKT&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Cup 2025 cricket<\/a> tournament in the UAE from September 9 to 28, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav underwent a sports hernia surgery in his lower right abdomen in Munich, Germany, after finishing as the second-highest scorer in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Test skipper Shubman Gill was named the vice-captain of the team. He last played a T20 match for the Indian cricket team against Sri Lanka in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma, the top two T20 batters in the world rankings, also made the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Jasprit Bumrah and India\u2019s top-ranked T20 pacer Arshdeep Singh will lead the bowling attack. The spin department will be led by world No. 4 Varun Chakravarthy.<\/p>\n<p>India will begin their campaign against hosts UAE on September 10 at the Dubai International Stadium, before facing Pakistan on September 14 in the marquee clash of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>India, the reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/asia-cup-cricket-winners-list\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;BD\\&quot;,\\&quot;BT\\&quot;,\\&quot;IN\\&quot;,\\&quot;MV\\&quot;,\\&quot;NP\\&quot;,\\&quot;PK\\&quot;,\\&quot;LK\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;e78957cc-ff99-4f5d-9875-f74981ea9f05&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-08-19T09:28:21.011Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav returns to lead Indian cricket team; Shubman Gill vice-captain - full squad&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-cricket\\&quot;,\\&quot;sportzinteractive\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-in\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav returns to lead Indian cricket team; Shubman Gill vice-captain - full squad&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;asia-cup-2025-indian-cricket-team-squad&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-cricket&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;CKT&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Cup champions<\/a>, are the most successful team in Asia Cup history, with eight titles, the last of which came in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka won the competition when it was last played in the T20 format in 2022, beating Pakistan in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suryakumar Yadav will captain the 15-member Indian squad for the Asia Cup 2025 cricket tournament in the UAE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-79665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}