Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav to stay as India’s T20I captain, Shubman Gill likely to miss out | Cricket News

Mumbai: The focus is likely to be on sustaining continuity and retaining religion within the younger and profitable T20 specialists when the Indian selectors meet right here on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquarters on Tuesday to decide the squad for the Asia Cup (to be performed within the T20 format) within the UAE, scheduled from September 9-28.The assembly shall be attended by India’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav, who will fly in from Bengaluru after clearing his health take a look at on the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE), which suggests SKY stays on as India’s T20 captain, probably until the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

Contrary to expectations, star batter and India’s Test captain Shubman Gill, who was tipped in some quarters to take over the vice-captaincy position within the T20 format after a extremely profitable tour of England, the place he scored 754 runs in 5 Tests @75.40 with a prime rating of 269, is at the moment struggling to even make it to what’s likely to be no more than a 15-man squad — except head coach Gautam Gambhir pushes for his inclusion within the T20 format too.“Gill is a terrific batsman, all of the selectors and head coach Gautam Gambhir are enormous followers of his batting, and he’s rated nearly as extremely as Virat Kohli in India’s cricket circles by way of potential. However, he doesn’t match into the T20 scheme of issues proper now. Presently, the thought is to stick with ‘keeper-bat Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma as openers, with Tilak Varma coming in at No. 3 and skipper Suryakumar at No. 4. If you see, Abhishek and Varma are rated as the No. 1 & No. 2 batters in T20Is in the ICC rankings currently. How can you keep them out?” a source close to the developments told TOI.Gill had a successful IPL 2025 too, where he slammed 650 runs in 15 matches @50.00, at a strike rate of 155.87, with six fifties, while captaining the Gujarat Titans. Along with young left-hander Sai Sudharsan, the 25-year-old forged an extremely prolific opening combination for GT.

India captain Shubman Gill speaks during a press conference at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, Tuesday July 1, 2025. AP/PTI(AP07_01_2025_000278A)

However, Samson, Sharma, and Varma have done enough in T20Is last year to have the team management’s confidence in them, at least for now. Samson smashed three hundreds in T20Is last year — two against South Africa in an away series (107 & 109*) and one (111) against Bangladesh at Hyderabad in the home series. Tilak cracked back-to-back centuries (107 not out & 120 not out) against South Africa in November 2024. The 22-year-old had an average IPL this time for the Mumbai Indians, managing 343 runs in 16 matches @31.18 with two fifties, but that is unlikely to be held against him.“Even Hardik Pandya had a bad IPL last year (while captaining MI), but he turned out to be one of India’s greatest heroes of their 2024 T20 World Cup triumph within the West Indies. Even greats like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have endured dangerous IPLs, however they had been a unique beast whereas taking part in for India in T20Is. You can’t choose a participant simply by one IPL,” a supply pointed out.Abhishek, after all, is a certainty after bludgeoning a scintillating 135 off simply 54 balls, together with 13 sixes and 7 fours, in opposition to England on the Wankhede Stadium on February 2 this yr. Incidentally, it was the final T20I India performed earlier than the Asia Cup.

New Delhi: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma performs a shot throughout an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers’ Hyderabad, on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) *** Local Caption ***

“The current top four in India’s T20 cricket reflect their new-found resolve to play fearlessly in this format. In fact, if you are talking about taking a third opener in the Asia Cup squad, the case of Yashasvi Jaiswal is stronger than Gill’s. Jaiswal has the tendency to hit a lot more boundaries in the Powerplay overs, which is mandatory in today’s T20 cricket. If you remember, Jaiswal was in India’s main squad in the T20 World Cup last year, while Gill was in the reserves,” the supply mentioned.However, it’s learnt that Jaiswal, who scored two tons of within the Test collection in England (101 at Leeds & 118 at The Oval), has been requested to deal with red-ball cricket for now, contemplating India are scheduled to play 4 residence Tests within the 2025-26 season—two every in opposition to West Indies and South Africa.

Iyer too struggling to make the reduceLike Gill, Shreyas Iyer can also be struggling to make the reduce, regardless of captaining Punjab Kings to the ultimate of IPL 2025 and being in blazing type with the bat. The 30-year-old was India’s prime run-getter of their Champions Trophy triumph in Dubai in March, scoring 243 runs in 5 matches @48.60, together with two fifties. He scored 79 off 98 in opposition to New Zealand within the group stage, then 45 off 62 in opposition to Australia within the semifinal, and 48 off 62 within the closing. However, he’s competing with big-hitting left-handers, allrounder Shivam Dube and ‘finisher’ Rinku Singh.Bumrah set to be again, Siraj likely to be restedIn encouraging information for Team India, world No. 1 pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who performed three Tests in England and was below the scanner for workload administration, has conveyed his availability to the selectors for the Asia Cup, and can thus lead India’s assault.“Bumrah had a minor knee injury, but will be fit for the Asia Cup. He is supposed to report to the BCCI’s CoE on August 30 for a fitness assessment,” a supply advised TOI.

London: India’s Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna throughout a coaching session forward of the fifth Test cricket match between India and England, in London. (PTI Photo/R Senthilkumar)

With the ultimate of the Asia Cup set for September 28 in Dubai and the primary Test in opposition to West Indies beginning on October 2 in Ahmedabad, there’s a good probability that Bumrah will miss no less than the primary Test of that collection. Meanwhile, pacer Mohammed Siraj, who took 9 for 190 within the fifth Test at The Oval and completed with 23 wickets within the England collection, is likely to be rested from the Asia Cup. He will, nevertheless, be out there for the house Tests.Apart from Bumrah, left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna — who gained the Purple Cap in IPL 2025 with 25 wickets in 15 matches @19.52 for Gujarat Titans — and Hardik Pandya would be the different seamers. Prasidh, although, may very well be competing for a spot with Delhi pacer Harshit Rana.Among spinners, Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav are certainties on the gradual UAE wickets, whereas off-spinning allrounder Washington Sundar is sort of assured a spot.

Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders’ Varun Chakravarthy celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Chennai Super Kings’ Dewald Brevis throughout an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, on the Eden Gardens, in Kolkata, West Bengal. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

The Asia Cup will start with Afghanistan vs Hong Kong in Abu Dhabi on September 9. Clubbed in Group A with arch-rivals Pakistan, UAE and Oman, India will launch their marketing campaign in opposition to UAE on September 10 in Dubai. They tackle Pakistan on September 14 within the league stage, and most likely once more within the Super Four stage on September 21. The closing is scheduled for September 28.Jitesh Sharma, a star performer for IPL 2025 champions RCB (261 runs in 15 matches @37.28, SR 176.35, together with a prime rating of 85*), is predicted to be picked as the second wicketkeeper within the squad.