2025 Asia Cup
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The 2025 Men's Asia Cup (also known as DP World Asia Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament. It took place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 9 to 28 September 2025. The matches were played in the Twenty20 International (T20I) format. India was the defending champions of 2023. The tournament featured eight teams. The five full members of the Asian Cricket Council, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka automatically qualified for the tournament and were joined by United Arab Emirates, Oman and Hong Kong, the teams which finished in the top three in the 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup. In the final, India defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets to win their ninth title, and thus retained the title.
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| Means of qualification | Date | Hosts | Berth(s) | Qualified |
| ICC Full Member | — | — | 5 | Afghanistan |
| Bangladesh | ||||
| India | ||||
| Pakistan | ||||
| Sri Lanka | ||||
| 2024 ACC Premier Cup | 12–21 April 2024 | Oman | 3 | United Arab Emirates |
| Oman | ||||
| Hong Kong | ||||
| Total | 8 |
| Afghanistan | Bangladesh | Hong Kong | India | Oman | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | United Arab Emirates |
| Rashid Khan (c) Fareed Ahmad Noor Ahmad Abdullah Ahmadzai Sediqullah Atal Sharafuddin Ashraf Fazalhaq Farooqi Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Naveen-ul-Haq Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Karim Janat Gulbadin Naib Mohammad Nabi Azmatullah Omarzai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Darwish Rasooli Ibrahim Zadran | Litton Das (c, wk) Nasum Ahmed Taskin Ahmed Jaker Ali (wk) Parvez Hossain Emon Nurul Hasan (wk) Tanzid Hasan Tanzim Hasan Sakib Saif Hassan Rishad Hossain Shamim Hossain Towhid Hridoy Shoriful Islam Mahedi Hasan Mustafizur Rahman Mohammad Saifuddin | Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Haroon Arshad Kalhan Challu Martin Coetzee Mohammad Ghazanfar Ali Hassan Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Anas Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Adil Mehmood Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Kinchit Shah Ayush Shukla Mohammad Waheed Shahid Wasif (wk) | Suryakumar Yadav (c) Shubman Gill (vc) Abhishek Sharma Tilak Varma Hardik Pandya Shivam Dube Axar Patel Jitesh Sharma (wk) Jasprit Bumrah Arshdeep Singh Varun Chakravarthy Kuldeep Yadav Sanju Samson (wk) Harshit Rana Rinku Singh | Jatinder Singh (c) Shakeel Ahmed Wasim Ali Aryan Bisht Shah Faisal Muhammed Imran Zikria Islam Aamir Kaleem Nadeem Khan Sufyan Mehmood Hammad Mirza Mohammad Nadeem Ashish Odedara Jiten Ramanandi Hassnain Shah Samay Shrivastava Vinayak Shukla (wk) Karan Sonavale Sufyan Yousuf (wk) | Salman Ali Agha (c) Shaheen Afridi Abrar Ahmed Hasan Ali Faheem Ashraf Saim Ayub Sahibzada Farhan Mohammad Haris (wk) Salman Mirza Sufiyan Muqeem Hassan Nawaz Mohammad Nawaz Haris Rauf Khushdil Shah Hussain Talat Mohammad Wasim Jr. Fakhar Zaman | Charith Asalanka (c) Dushmantha Chameera Binura Fernando Nuwanidu Fernando Wanindu Hasaranga Chamika Karunaratne Janith Liyanage Kamindu Mendis Kusal Mendis (wk) Kamil Mishara Pathum Nissanka Matheesha Pathirana Kusal Perera (wk) Dasun Shanaka Maheesh Theekshana Nuwan Thushara Dunith Wellalage | Muhammad Waseem (c) Haider Ali Rahul Chopra (wk) Ethan D'Souza Muhammad Farooq Muhammad Jawadullah Harshit Kaushik Asif Khan Matiullah Khan Saghir Khan Dhruv Parashar Muhammad Rohid Alishan Sharafu Aryansh Sharma (wk) Junaid Siddique Simranjeet Singh Muhammad Zohaib |
| Dubai | Abu Dhabi |
| Dubai International Cricket Stadium | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium |
| Coordinates: .mw- 25°2′48″N 55°13′8″E / 25.04667°N 55.21889°E / 25.04667; 55.21889 | Coordinates: 24°23′47″N 54°32′26″E / 24.39639°N 54.54056°E / 24.39639; 54.54056 |
| Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 20,000 |
| Matches: 11 | Matches: 8 |
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| 1 | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3.547 | Advanced to the Super Four |
| 2 | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1.790 | |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates (H) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1.984 | |
| 4 | Oman | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −2.600 |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.278 | Advanced to the Super Four |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | −0.270 | |
| 3 | Afghanistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.241 | |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −2.151 |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.913 | Advanced to the Final |
| 2 | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.329 | |
| 3 | Bangladesh | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.831 | |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −0.418 |
| Runs | Player | Inns. | Avg | SR | HS | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s |
| 314 | Abhishek Sharma | 7 | 44.85 | 200.00 | 75 | – | 3 | 32 | 19 |
| 261 | Pathum Nissanka | 6 | 43.50 | 160.12 | 107 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 11 |
| 217 | Sahibzada Farhan | 7 | 31.00 | 116.04 | 58 | – | 2 | 14 | 11 |
| 213 | Tilak Varma | 6 | 71.00 | 131.48 | 69* | – | 1 | 12 | 10 |
| 181 | Fakhar Zaman | 7 | 30.16 | 120.66 | 50 | – | 1 | 16 | 5 |
| Source: ESPNcricinfo | |||||||||
| Wickets | Player | Inns. | BBI | Avg | Eco. | 4W | 5W | |
| 17 | Kuldeep Yadav | 7 | 4/7 | 9.29 | 6.27 | 2 | – | |
| 10 | Shaheen Afridi | 7 | 3/17 | 16.40 | 6.60 | – | – | |
| 9 | Junaid Siddique | 3 | 4/18 | 6.33 | 6.33 | 2 | – | |
| Mustafizur Rahman | 6 | 3/20 | 19.00 | 7.43 | – | – | ||
| Haris Rauf | 5 | 3/33 | 18.33 | 9.00 | – | – | ||
| Source: ESPNcricinfo | ||||||||
| Territory | Rights holder(s) |
| Afghanistan | Lemar TVSonyLIV |
| Bangladesh | T SportsNagorik TVToffeeTapmad |
| India | Sony SportsSonyLIV |
| Nepal | |
| Pakistan | PTV Sports |
| Sri Lanka | TV 1 |
| Australia | Fox Sports |
| United Arab Emirates | Switch TVStarzPlayCricLife |
| MENA region | |
| United Kingdom | TNT Sports |
| United States | Willow TV |
| Canada | |
| Caribbean | SonyLIV |
| Sub-Saharan Africa |
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