Asia Cup India Squad – Asia Cup T20 Cricket: The Indian squad for Asia Cup T20 will be picked on 8th August. The Asian Cricket Council has set a deadline of 8th August for teams to submit their squads. The BCCI Selectors will meet on the same day in the afternoon to select the Indian team for Asia Cup T20 Cricket in UAE. According to available information, selectors are extremely worried on the issue of KL Rahul’ fitness and Virat Kohli’s form. Both the issues will be discussed threadbare before the squad is announced for Asia Cup: Follow Asia Cup Cricket LIVE Updates, T20 World Cup news & IND vs WI T20 Series LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
“Selectors have been selecting the squad via virtual meetings. But this time they will physically meet and select the Indian squad for Asia Cup. We are confident KL Rahul will recover for the event. The team needs his quality of player,” said a top BCCI official to InsideSport.
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Asia Cup India Squad: The selection committee meeting according to a source will take place in Mumbai. The selectors will watch the ongoing India vs WestIndies T20 series closely before the squad is finalized.
1st Match of the 5 match T20 Series is already over as India leads the series 1-0. The series ends on August 7th and the selectors will meet on 8th to finalize the squad for Asia Cup T20 in UAE.
Meanwhile as reported earlier by InsideSport, the submission deadline for ICC T20 World Cup in Australia is 15th September. This means the Asia Cup and T20World Cup hopefuls have just 4 more games to impress the selectors.
How selectors will gauge Kohli’s form & KL Rahul’s fitness?
KL Rahul’s FITNESS: BCCI and the selectors are hopeful that Rahul will prove his fitness before the squad is selected for the Asia Cup. Though the date is yet to be confirmed, but KL Rahul will be subjected to FITNESS TEST coming week at the National Cricket Academy.
Rahul himself has tweeted on Saturday evening that he is RECOVERING from Covid-19 and is looking forward to be part of the Indian team once again.
⏳💙🇮🇳🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/2ULENT5Puk
— K L Rahul (@klrahul) July 30, 2022
Virat Kohli’s FORM: The case of Kohli is more peculiar. The former Indian captain is on break. It was expected that Kohli will play the ODI Series vs Zimbabwe to regain his lost form. InsideSport had reported that some of the members of selection committee were keen to give Kohli some time in the middle. These selectors wanted to pick him for the Zimbabwe tour.
But Kohli decided to made himself unavailable and will continue his vacation and break from the game. It is clear that the selectors will now have to pick Kohli on his past records with doubts on his form will continue to haunt them till he score.
Asia Cup & T20 World Cup Squad? It is obvious that team picked for the Asia Cup will almost be the same that will travel to Australia for the T20 World Cup in October-November.
The same set of players will also feature in the six T20I games against Australia and South Africa in September and October.
The tournament is set to kick off on August 27 with the final scheduled to be held on September 11. India will face Pakistan on August 28 to begin their Asia Cup campaign.
India likely Squad Asia Cup 2022: Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, KL Rahul (VC), Dinesh Karthik (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi/ Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh
