The much-awaited Asia Cup 2022 is here. Hong Kong paved their way to the final to qualify for the single spot to compete in the continental tournament. This is for the first time in the tournament history that the Asia Cup will be played in the shortest format of cricket.

The T20 tournament will kickstart from August 27 and will conclude on September 11, 2022. The entire leg of Asia Cup has been shifted to UAE after the ongoing economic & political crisis in Sri Lanka. Although, the island nation still holds the right to host the tournament.

Through this article, SportsTiger aims to give all the information related to the squads of the six participating countries at one place for this year’s edition.

Group A

India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan
Standby:  Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Deepak Chahar

Pakistan: 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, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Hasnain

Hong Kong:  Nizakat Khan (c), Kinchit Shah, Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Babar Hayat, Aftab Hussain, Ateeq Iqbal, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Scott McKechnie (wk), Ghazanfar Mohammad, Yasim Murtaza, Dhananjay Rao, Wajid Shah, Ayush Shukla, Ahan Trivedi, Mohammad Waheed

Group B

Afghanistan : Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Afsar Zazai, Azmatullah Omarzai, Farid Ahmad Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Hazratullah Zazai, Ibrahim Zadran, Karim Janat, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Najibullah Zadran, Naveen ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rashid Khan, Samiullah Shinwari
Standby: Nijat Masood, Qais Ahmed, Sharafuddin Ashraf

Bangladesh : Shakib Al Hasan (c), Anamul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Sabbir Rahman, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadot Hossain , Parvez Hossain Emon, Mohammad Naim

Sri Lanka : Dasun Shanaka (c), Danushka Gunathilaka, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Ashen Bandara, Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Praveen Jayawickrama, Chamika Karunaratne, Dilshan Madushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Nuwanidu Fernando, Nuwan Thusara, Dinesh Chandimal

Talking about the fixtures, Sri Lanka will play Afghanistan in the tournament opener with India taking on Pakistan on the second day (28 August 2022). The other matches are as followed:

August 30: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan - 7:30 PM IST
August 31: India vs Hong Kong - 7:30 PM IST
September 1: Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh - 7:30 PM IST
September 2: Pakistan vs Hong Kong  - 7:30 PM IST

The other matches to be followed will be announced as the tournament progresses.