Asia Cup 2022 LIVE: Indian stars including captain Rohit Sharma are expected to touchdown in India on Wednesday following the end of their tour of the West Indies. India played the final two T20Is in Florida and the players have stayed back for a couple more days before returning to India. Rohit Sharma and Co will now enter a break period, before assembling once again before the Asia Cup in UAE later this month. Follow Asia Cup 2022 LIVE Updates on Insidesport.IN
Team India schedule –
- Indian players will arrive back home on Wednesday after the tour of the West Indies.
- Senior players Rohit Sharma and others will have an extended break.
- BCCI plans to hold a 3-day camp before the Asia Cup.
- Virat Kohli, who rested vs West Indies, has begun training.
- A second-string team led by Shikhar Dhawan will leave for 3 ODIs vs Zimbabwe.
- India play Pakistan on August 28.
Asia Cup 2022 LIVE: Indian Cricket team to land in India tonight, BCCI plan 3-day camp for Asia Cup-bound squad – Follow LIVE Updates
Team India will return home from the US on Tuesday after months away on the tour of England and West Indies. The Men in Blue had toured Ireland and England in June and July, before embarking on a series against the West Indies in the Caribbean and the US.
Now with the series done and dusted over the weekend, Rohit Sharma and Co will return to India on Tuesday. The team will disperse as the main team heads into a short break ahead of the Asia Cup.
India are expected to begin their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on August 28, and the BCCI will hold a three-day camp for the players before leaving for UAE. Former captain Virat Kohli, who was rested from the West Indies tour, has already begun training in Mumbai.
Asia Cup 2022 LIVE: Indian Cricket team to land in India tonight, BCCI plan 3-day camp for Asia Cup-bound squad – Follow LIVE Updates
Meanwhile, a second-string India side is expected to leave for Zimbabwe in the coming days. The Men in Blue led by Shikhar Dhawan will play 3 ODIs while the others prepare for the Asia Cup in the UAE. The likes of Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson and Rahul Tripathi will tour the African nation.
Kishan and Samson were part of India’s T20I squad against West Indies, but have been excluded from the Asia Cup team. The Zimbabwe tour will be their last assignment before a potential return during the series against Australia or South Africa later this year.
India Squad Asia Cup: Rohit Sharma (C), KL Rahul (VC), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan
Backups: Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Axar Patel
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