As we know the Asia Cup is a very important tournament for Asian teams so from 27 August Asia Cup 2022 is going to start in Sri Lanka. Check Participating in Teams in the Asia Cup 2022 in Sri Lanka.
Its final match starts on 11 April in which two strong teams of the 2022 tournament play against each other to lift this trophy.
In this article, we are going to tell you about teams who are going to participate in Asia Cup 2022 which is going to host by Sri Lanka.
Participating Teams in the Asia Cup 2022 in Sri Lanka
This season is going to be the 15th edition of this tournament in 2016 it starts in the T20 format and in 2018 its format is ODI where Team India is the winner.
This year in 2022 this is going to be played in T20 format where India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh are going to participate and other teams came after the qualifier match.
We start this with Team India in this marquee tournament Man in Blue won the max cup in years 1984, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2010, 2016, and 2018.
In that year Squad of Team India is like this
KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar Dhawan (VC),
Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav,
MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya,
Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal,
Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah,
Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed.
Now in 2022, this world cup is going to host by Sri Lanka and because of this may be team India that as Home ground and play well in this Asia Cup.
Pakistan as Participating Teams in the Asia Cup 2022 in Sri Lanka
When we heard about the Pakistan team then as an India cricket team fan one thing which strikes in our mind is that this is the rival team and we have to win against them.
In this Asia World cup, Pakistan won this tournament two times in 2000 and 2012, and now this year they surely want to win this trophy.
In the 2018 squad of Pakistan team is like this
Fakhar Zaman, Usman Shinwari,
Asif Ali, Haris Sohail, Shan Masood,
Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Shadab Khan,
Muhammad Nawaz, Mohammad Amir,
Junaid Khan, Imam Ul Haq, Sarfraz Ahmed (c),
Shaheen Afridi, Fahim Ashraf, Hasan Ali.
Participating Teams in the Asia Cup 2022 Sri Lanka
As we know very well that this Asia cup is going to start just before the T20 World cup so winning this tournament increase confidence of teams.
This year all matches of the Asia Cup are going to start in Sri Lanka so this is the right team for the Sri Lanka team to get the benefit of Home ground.
If we talk about the performance of the Sri Lanka team in this cup then after India they won most of the cup 5 times in the year 1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, and 2014.
This year this team has a high chance of winning this cup because they are hosting and it is their home ground.
The 2018 squad of Sri Lanka team is like this
Dushmantha Chameera, Angelo Mathews(c),
Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka,
Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Upul Tharanga,
Thisara Perera, Dasun Shanaka, Dilruwan Perera,
Amila Aponso, Dhananjaya de Silva, Akila Dananjaya,
Kasun Rajitha, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga
Afghanistan as Participating Teams in the Asia Cup 2022
This team is the only team who never won any cup in this marquee tournament but this team is always trying their level best to improve their performance.
This year in 2022 we hope that they can play well and beat other teams in the Semifinals and Finals of the cup.
In 2018 squad of the Afghanistan team is like this.
Wafadar, Asghar Afghan (c), Mohammad Shahzad (wk),
Hashmat Shahidi, Mohammad Nabi,
Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Ihsanullah Janat,
Javed Ahmadi, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran,
Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, Aftab Alam,
Samiullah Shinwari, Munir Ahmad Kakar (wk),
Sayed Ahmad Sherzad, Sharafudin Ashraf
Bangladesh as Participating Teams in the Asia Cup 2022
Just like Afghanistan this team also never won this Cup but they are far better than Afghanistan because they play semifinal matches in the year 2012 Against Pakistan and lost that game.
Again they play in 2016 and 2018 against India for both times Team India beat them and lift this trophy.
Not only this, but Bangladesh also host the Asia Cup 5 times in the years 1988, 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016 after that also they don’t win a single match.
In this 2022 cup, we hope that this team learns from their previous mistakes and plays well in this upcoming Cup so that they can lift this trophy.