{"id":356698,"date":"2025-08-19T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356698\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:44:11","slug":"asia-cup-2025-india-announces-squad-suryakumar-yadav-to-lead-shubman-gill-named-vice-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356698\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: India announces squad, Suryakumar Yadav to lead; Shubman Gill named vice-captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Twenty20 captain Suryakumar Yadav and Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar during the press conference to announce the team for Asia Cup 2025 in Mumbai on August 19, 2025.
\n | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini\n <\/p>\n

Test skipper Shubman Gill was on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) appointed as the vice-captain, while pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was also included in India\u2019s 15-member T20 squad for the Asia Cup starting September 9 in the UAE. <\/p>\n

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Gill\u2019s last T20 match was against Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2024 and he has now replaced Axar Patel as the deputy of skipper Suryakumar Yadav. <\/p>\n

\u201cGill\u2019s form in England was something we expected but he exceeded it all,\u201d chief selector Ajit Agarkar said during the squad announcement press conference here. <\/p>\n

There were some lingering doubts on Bumrah\u2019s availability largely due to the proximity to the home Test series against the West Indies in October. <\/p>\n

But the selectors opted to pick and this will be Bumrah\u2019s first T20 tournament since last year\u2019s World Cup. <\/p>\n

Left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav too has been drafted in, while Jitesh Sharma will be the back-up wicketkeeper batter. <\/p>\n

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Twenty20 captain Suryakumar Yadav and Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar during the press conference in Mumbai on August 19, 2025.
\n | Photo Credit:
\n Emmanual Yogini\n <\/p>\n

Yashasvi Jaiswal was among the five standby players chosen by the selectors. The other players in the standby are Washington Sundar, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel, and Riyan Parag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate Jaiswal has had to miss out but he will have to wait,\u201d Agarkar said. <\/p>\n

India is placed in Group A of the Asia Cup alongside Pakistan, Oman, and UAE. <\/p>\n

India squad for Asia Cup<\/p>\n

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Abhishek Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Jitesh Sharma, Shivam Dube, Arshdeep Singh, Sanju Samson, Harshit Rana, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav.<\/p>\n

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