Dubai, Sept. 8 -- The 2025 edition of the Asia Cup, in T20I format, will start from Tuesday with the campaign opener between a rising Afghanistan side and Hong Kong at Abu Dhabi.

Team India is scheduled to start their campaign the next day against hosts UAE in Dubai.

Sri Lanka, who last won the T20I edition of the Asia Cup back in 2022 under the captaincy of Dasun Shanaka, will be putting up their title up for defence against Team India, the current T20 World Cup champions who are captained by Suryakumar Yadav, Salman Agha-led Pakistan, who have reinvented their T20I batting with the injection of fresh, new and hard-hitting blood and and dark horse contenders Afghanistan captained by Rashid Khan, who reached the semifinals of T20 WC las...