India is currently ranked the No.1 team in T20I rankings and they will be favourites in Asia Cup. Asia Cup 2023 will be played from 30 August to 17 September. In this article, we will look at the Indian team and their best playing 11 from the announced squad.
India’s Squad For Asia Cup 2023
- Rohit Sharma (C)
- Shubman Gill
- Virat Kohli
- Shreyas Iyer
- KL Rahul (wk)
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Tilak Varma
- Ishan Kishan
- Hardik Pandya
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Axar Patel
- Shardul Thakur
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Mohammed Shami
- Mohammed Siraj
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Prasidh Krishna
- Sanju Samson (back up)
One standby players are Sanju Samson
Sanju Samson has been dropped from the Asia Cup squad following the return of KL Rahul. Sanju Samson has been kept as the backup
Possible playing 11
The weakest link in the Indian squad is fast bowling as there are only 3 fast bowlers in the main squad and both Japrit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami Khan are young and inexperienced bowlers.
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KL Rahul is named as the vice-captain of the team which means he will play in his original opening position and in the past few series India has tried several openers and Rahul himself is coming from injury and he will play T20 after IPL 2022.
So here is the possible playing 11 of the Indian team.
- Rohit Sharma (c)
- Shubman Gill
- Virat Kohli
- KL Rahul (wk)
- Shreyas Iyer
- Hardik Pandya
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Shardul Thakur
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Mohammed Shami
- Mohammed Siraj
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