Asia Cup Winners List: Who were the past winners of this tournament and how does Team India fare?

The Asia Cup 2025 is set to begin on September 9, 2025, leading to an exciting cricketing month ahead. This tournament, which takes place once in two years, features men’s national teams from several asian countries like Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, UAE, Oman, and Hong Kong competing for the coveted title of continental champions.

Amongst the 8 participating teams, only 3 teams have ever won the coveted title of continental champions, namely India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The Asia Cup’s untampered ODI run till 2014 was dominated by the Indian and Sri Lankan teams, who had won 5 titles each in the 12 ODI seasons of the tournament till then.

While India stands as the most successful team to ever participate in the series, with 8 wins, it is closely followed by Sri Lanka (6) and then Pakistan (2).

Asia Cup 2025: When will India play its first game for the season?

India is set to start its Asia Cup campaign against home favourites UAE on September 10 in Dubai. One of the most anticipated matches of the tournament, India vs Pakistan, will take place at the Dubai International Stadium on September 14.

In a promising development for Indian cricket fans, India and Pakistan have been placed in the same group (Group A) along with the UAE and Oman. This means that if both India and Pakistan reach the Super Fours and eventually the final, they could face each other up to three times in the tournament, setting the stage for some fierce clashes between the sport’s greatest rivals.

Asia Cup 2025: India’s T20 squad

Indian Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.