India and Pakistan both are the best teams in the Asia continent. The arch-rivals, India and Pakistan faced each other 14 times in Asia Cup. Eight times India beat Pakistan and five times Pakistan beat India while 1 match was drawn by rain. Asia Cup alternates every 2-years between ODI and T20I formats. This time it will be played in the T20I format. The Asia Cup tournament will be hosted by Sri Lanka in UAE due to political unrest in the country. The tournament will begin on August 27 and the final will be played on September 11.
India won the Asia Cup 7 times on the other hand Pakistan had won the Asia Cup twice. This will be the first time that Rohit Sharma will lead India as a full-time captain in the Asia cup and Babar Azam will lead Pakistan. The squad of both of the teams was announced recently:
India's squad for Asia Cup: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan.
Pakistan's squad for Asia Cup: Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir.
The chances are very high that India and Pakistan may face each other three times in Asia cup 2022. Here's how it becomes a possibility.
Group A: India, Pakistan, and Qualifier team
Group B: Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh
The group match between India and Pakistan will be played on August 28 in Dubai. Two teams from both groups will be going to Super 4 and in Super 4 India and Pakistan will face each other once again because the third team of Group A will be one from UAE, Singapore, Kuwait, and Hong Kong and it's a tough task for them to beat India and Pakistan. Therefore, the top teams of Group A will be facing each other on September 4. Both teams are the strongest in Asia so most probably the final will be playing between India and Pakistan on September 11.
