Asia Cup 2023: Date, Time, Schedule, Format, Full Squads And Live Streaming Details

Asia Cup 2023: The much-awaited tournament is scheduled to begin next week. This year, the Asia Cup will be co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The six-team ODI tournament, which is a pre-cursor to the ODI World Cup will be important for the Asian teams to prepare for the mega ICC event which will be played in India in October.

Last year, the Asia Cup was held in the T20 format before the T20 World Cup in Australia. Sri Lanka beat Pakistan in the final in the UAE.

Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming Asia Cup 2023:

Asia Cup 2023 will be played from August 30 to September 17. The matches will start at 3 PM IST.

The Asia Cup 2023 will be played in fifty-overs format. The six teams participating in the tournament have been divided into two groups of three teams each.

Group A: India, Pakistan and Nepal

Group B: Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka

A total of 13 ODI matches will be played in the Asia Cup 2023. Pakistan will host four matches across two venues and Sri Lanka will host the remaining matches.

The tournament will commence with the six group-stage matches which will be followed by the Super 4s. The two teams which occupy the top two spots at the end of the Super 4s will play the final.

Asia Cup 2023 Fixtures:

Group Stage -

• Pakistan vs Nepal on August 30 in Multan, Pakistan

• Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka on August 31 in Kandy, Sri Lanka

• India vs Pakistan on September 2 in Kandy, Sri Lanka

• Bangladesh vs Afghanistan on September 3 in Lahore, Pakistan

• India vs Nepal on September 4 in Kandy, Sri Lanka

• Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka on September 5 in Lahore, Pakistan

Super 4s

• A1 v B2 on September 6 in Lahore, Pakistan

• B1 v B2 on September 9 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• A1 v A2 on September 10 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• A2 v B1 on September 12 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• A1 v B1 on September 14 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

• A2 v B2 on September 15 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Final

• September 17 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Asia Cup 2023 will be broadcast live on the Star Sports Network in India. Disney+ Hotstar will live stream all the Asia Cup matches on its app and website.

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (vc), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.

Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan, Gulbadin Naib, Karim Janat, Abdul Rahman, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Suliman Safi, Fazalhaq Farooqi.

Rohit Paudel (c), Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Bhim Sharki, Kushal Malla, Aarif Sheikh, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Rajbanshi, Pratish GC, Shyam Dhakal, Sundeep Jora, Kishore Mahato and Arjun Saud.

Dasun Shanaka (c), Pathum Nissanaka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Janith Perera, Kusal Mendis (vc), Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage, Matheesha Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Dushan Hemantha, Binura Fernando, Pramod Madushan.

Babar Azam (c), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir (travelling reserve).

Shakib Al Hasan (c), Najmul Hossain Shanto, Tawhid 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, Anamul Haque Bijoy.