Asia Cup Cricket: This will be the first time after 17 years, when Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are not in Team India’s squad. Due to their absence, the lack of experience in the Indian team is clearly visible. At the same time, Pakistan will be freshly elevated due to the absence of Virat.
Asia cup 2025: For the first time since 2012, Team India will go on playing without Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the Asia Cup tournament. However, this tournament, which starts in UAE from 9 September, is being played in 20-20 formats and Virat-Rohit has retired from this format. Team India’s squad has been announced, in which 15 players have been given place. Lack of experience in the team can be clearly seen. Except Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Akshar Patel, there are many new faces in the team which have played very low T20 I cricket. In such a situation, there can be 3 major damage due to the absence of Virat and Rohit. Let’s look at him.
Lack of an experienced leader in big tournament
The Asia Cup tournament is not a small series. Teams like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will come here in front of the Indian team. There will be pressure of large events from above. In this situation, it is necessary to have a big leader, who takes the team together and encourages. However, as captain, Suryakumar Yadav does not have a lack of ability. However, he is playing the first Asia Cup as captain. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli used to share their old experience in the team. In such a situation, the team may feel a lack of some experience due to their absence.
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Anchor role in difficult situation
Virat Kohli has played good innings for Team India in the Asia Cup many times in a difficult situation and won the team matches. The reason behind this is Virat’s patience in batting and fear in opposition teams. King started scoring slow runs and did an anchoring work by partnering with the batsmen standing in front. By the time he kept the crease from one end, the other -end batsman used to hold classes of bowlers. This has been the reason that many times Virat has won the match till the end and won India. In such a situation, due to his absence this time, an anchor will definitely play a shortage of batsman in the middle order batting.
Virat’s fear in front of Pakistan
What is the fear of King Virat Kohli, someone should ask the Pakistan team. Whenever Kohli faced against Pakistan, he has performed excellently. Not only this, when Virat first went on playing the Asia Cup in 2012, then a wonderful century of 183 runs against Pakistan. It is also the best personal score of his ODI career. After that, 49 runs in the year 2016 Asia Cup, 60-35 in the year 2022 Asia Cup and 122* in the year 2023 Asia Cup. You can guess what they have done to Pakistan. This time, due to lack of his, Pakistani bowlers will definitely take a sigh of relief. At the same time, Team can be a bit difficult for India.
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