Defending champions India named top order batter Shubman Gill and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in their T20I squad on Tuesday for next month’s Asia Cup 2025 in the United Arab Emirates.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and middle order batter Shreyas Iyer, however, could not make the cut in the 15-member squad led by Suryakumar Yadav.
India’s Test captain Shubman Gill has not played a T20 International since July last year when he was Suryakumar’s deputy on the tour of Sri Lanka.
“That’s where we started a new cycle,” Suryakumar, who took over T20 captaincy from Rohit Sharma after India won the 20-overs World Cup title last year, told reporters.
“After that he got busy with all the test series and he didn’t get an opportunity to play T20s because he was busy playing test cricket and Champions Trophy.
India squad for Asia Cup 2025: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh, and Sanju Samson.
