Pakistan and India gamers shake arms after the match of Asia Cup at Dubai Worldwide Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 4, 2022. — ReutersACC president confirms dates for Asia Cup 2025. Detailed schedule might be issued quickly: Naqvi. “We look forward to spectacular display of cricket.”
Asia Cup 2025 might be staged within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi introduced on Saturday, confirming it is not going to happen in India.
“I am delighted to confirm the dates for the ACC Men’s Asia Cup 2025 in UAE,” Naqvi, who additionally holds the coveted place of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, mentioned in a publish on X.
The ACC president, in his publish, introduced that the celebrated event would happen from September ninth to twenty eighth. “We look forward to a spectacular display of cricket,” he mentioned, including {that a} detailed schedule might be issued quickly.
Naqvi’s announcement comes round 48 hours after the ACC wrapped up its Annual Basic Assembly (AGM) in Dhaka — the place all 25 member nations had been in attendance.
After initially threatening to boycott the assembly, the BCCI ultimately joined the proceedings nearly. Vice-president Rajeev Shukla represented the board on the assembly.
“We have decided to work together for the betterment of cricket,” Naqvi, who chaired the assembly, had affirmed.
The upcoming version will comply with the T20 format, serving as a preparatory occasion for the T20 World Cup 2026, which might be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka in February.
Eight groups — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, UAE, Oman and Hong Kong — are anticipated to take part. The event construction features a group stage, a Tremendous 4 spherical, and a ultimate between the highest two groups.
Initially awarded to India, the 2025 version has now been shifted to the UAE resulting from ongoing political tensions between India and Pakistan. Regardless of holding internet hosting rights, India is not going to stage the occasion after the PCB refused to ship its workforce throughout the border.
Earlier this yr, each the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) and PCB reached a mutual settlement to not play in one another’s international locations, prompting the necessity for a impartial venue.
The UAE has since emerged as the popular host, with Dubai and Abu Dhabi anticipated to stage the vast majority of matches.
The UAE has a profitable monitor document in organising marquee cricket occasions — together with previous Asia Cups, the IPL, and World Cup qualifiers — together with its world-class infrastructure.
Whereas different potential venues had been briefly thought of, they had been deemed much less viable resulting from diplomatic considerations, comparable to India’s current commerce tensions with Bangladesh and the fallout from the Pakistan-India conflict cancellation throughout the World Championship of Legends.
