According to Aakash Chopra, this time also Team India will win the Asia Cup title, but there will not be big teams like Sri Lanka and Pakistan in the final, rather India will face Afghanistan for the title match.

Asia Cup 2025 is going to start from 9 September in UAE. Apart from hosts UAE and India, teams from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Oman and Hong Kong are participating in this tournament. Before the start of the tournament, cricket pundits are making various predictions. In this episode, former Indian opener and current expert Aakash Chopra has made a big prediction about the winner, runner-up of the tournament, highest run scorer and highest wicket taker. In Asia Cup 2025, these 8 teams have been divided into groups of 4 each. Group-A has UAE and Oman along with India-Pakistan. Group-B has teams from Bangladesh and Hong Kong along with Sri Lanka-Afghanistan.

According to Aakash Chopra, this time too the Asia Cup title will be won by Team India, but there will not be big teams like Sri Lanka and Pakistan in the final, rather India will face Afghanistan for the title match. Afghanistan has performed brilliantly in the last few multi-national tournaments.

Aakash Chopra believes that opener Abhishek Sharma will be the highest run-scorer in the tournament, while Varun Chakraborty will take the most wickets. As for the Player of the Tournament, he has also chosen an Indian player for this. This player is none other than star all-rounder Hardik Pandya.

Let us tell you, in view of the upcoming T20 World Cup 2026, Asia Cup 2025 is being played in T20 format. This is only the third time that the Asia Cup will be played in this format. In 2016, when the Asia Cup was of 20-20 overs for the first time, Team India became the champion under the leadership of MS Dhoni, while for the second time in 2022, Sri Lanka lifted the title.

Indian Squad for Asia Cup 2025- Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana and Rinku Singh.

Standby players: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel.