Asia Cup 2023 cricket tournament is starting from 30 September and based on a hybrid model, it will take place at Pakistan as well as Sri Lanka this time around. Nepal will compete in Asia Cup for the first time against the other five top ranked Asian sides which are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Fans in the subcontinent are very excited for the start of Asia Cup 2023 tournament and we will share all the spicy details about it in this article further.
Sri Lanka is the reigning Asia Cup champions as they defeated Pakistan in the final by 23 runs on 11 September 2022. This years Asia Cup will be played in 50 overs format and Pakistan is the current no. 1 ranked ODI side (as per ICC rankings). India is at no. 3, Bangladesh is at no. 7, Sri Lanka is at no. 8, Afghanistan is at no. 9, and Nepal is at no. 15 on the latest ICC ODI rankings table.
Asia Cup 2023 (Pakistan and Sri Lanka hosts) Full Schedule, Time Table with All Matches Venues Names :
DATE | TEAMS | VENUE |
30 August 2023 | Pakistan vs Nepal | Multan, Pakistan |
31 August 2023 | Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
2 September 2023 | Pakistan vs India | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
3 September 2023 | Bangladesh vs Afghanistan | Lahore, Pakistan |
4 September 2023 | India vs Nepal | Kandy, Sri Lanka |
5 September 2023 | Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka | Lahore, Pakistan |
SUPER 4’S | ||
6 September 2023 | A1 vs B2 | Lahore, Pakistan |
9 September 2023 | B1 vs B2 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
10 September 2023 | A1 vs A2 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
12 September 2023 | A2 vs B1 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
14 September 2023 | A1 vs B1 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
15 September 2023 | A2 vs B2 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
17 September 2023 | Final | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Asia Cup 2023 All 6 Teams Squads with Payers Names :
Below are the complete squads of all 6 teams with reserve players names which are participating in Cricket Asia Cup 2023 :
Pakistan Squad – Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Agha Salman, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Iftikhar Ahmed, Usama Mir, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abdullah Shafique, Mohammad Haris, Tayyab Tahir (Reserve)
India Squad – Rohit Sharma (C), Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishan Kishan (wk), Axar, Patel, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Prasidh Krishna, , KL Rahul (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson (Reserve)
Sri Lanka Squad – Dasun Shanaka (c), Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kusal Perera, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Dushan Hemantha, Binura Fernando, Pramod Madushan
Afghanistan Squad – Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan, Ikram Alikhil, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Noor Ahmad, Abdul Rahman and Mohammad Saleem Safi (Reserve).
Bangladesh Squad – Shakib Al Hasan (c), Litton Kumer Das (wk), Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain Dhrubo, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Naim Sheikh, Shamim Hossain, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Tanzim Hasan Sakib
Nepal Squad – Rohit Poudel (c), Asif Sheikh (wk), Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Bhim Sharki, Mousom Dhakal, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Gulsan Jha, Aarif Sheikh, Sufiyan Muqeem, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Sundeep Jora, Arjun Saud (wk), Kishore Mahato
Asia Cup 2023 Full Commentary Panel List with the Names of Country of each Commentator :
Below is the complete list of commentary panel for Asia Cup 2023 cricket tournament which includes 11 Indian commentators, 4 Pakistani commentators, and 1 commentator each from Sri Lanka, Australia, England, and Zimbabwe :
- Gautam Gambhir (India)
- Ravi Shastri (India)
- Waqar Younis (Pakistan)
- Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
- Andy Flower (Zimbabwe)
- Sanjay Manjrekar (India)
- Bazid Khan (Pakistan)
- Harbhajan Singh (India)
- Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka)
- Irfan Pathan (India)
- Matthew Hayden (Australia)
- Sanjay Bangar (India)
- Aamer Sohail (Pakistan)
- Piyush Chawla (India)
- Dominic Cork (England)
- Mohammad Kaif (India)
- Aditya Tare (India)
- Rajat Bhatia (India)
- Deep Dasgupta (India)
Asia Cup 2023 Full List of Broadcasters and TV Channels for India, Pakistan, USA, UK, Bangladesh, etc :
Country Names | Broadcaster Names |
India | Star Sports, Hotstar |
Pakistan | PTV Sports, Ten Sports |
Bangladesh | Gazi TV (GTV) |
Afghanistan | Ariana TV |
USA | Willow TV |
UK and Ireland | TNT Sports |
Papua New Guinea | EM TV |
South Africa | SuperSport Network |
New Zealand | Sky Sports |
Australia | Fox Sports |
MENA | CricLife Max, STARZ PLAY |