Asia Cup 2018

                             2018 Asia Cup

    

The 2018 Asia Cup (also known as Unimoni Asia Cup)^[1] is a One-Day International (ODI) cricket tournament scheduled to be held in the United Arab Emirates in September 2018.^[2] It will be the 14th edition of the Asia Cup and the third time the tournament will be played in the United Arab Emirates, after the 1984 and 1995 tournaments. India are the defending champions.^[3]

The five full members of the Asian Cricket Council will take part in the tournament: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by Hong Kong, who won the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament.^[4] Hong Kong had lost their ODI status after finishing tenth in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in March.^[5] However, on 9 September 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded ODI status to all matches in the tournament.

Teams[edit]

•  Afghanistan, ICC Full Member
•  Bangladesh, ICC Full Member
•  India, ICC Full Member
•  Pakistan, ICC Full Member
•  Sri Lanka, ICC Full Member
•  Hong Kong, 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier

Squads[edit]

Afghanistan[15]	Bangladesh[16]	Hong Kong[17]	India[18]	Pakistan[19]	Sri Lanka[20]
Asghar Afghan (c) Javed Ahmadi Munir Ahmad Yamin Ahmadzai Aftab Alam Ihsanullah Rashid Khan Wafadar Momand Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Rahmat Shah Hashmatullah Shahidi Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Samiullah Shenwari Sayed Shirzad Mujeeb Ur Rahman Najibullah Zadran	Mashrafe Mortaza (c) Shakib Al Hasan (vc) Liton Das Ariful Haque Mominul Haque Abu Hider Rubel Hossain Tamim Iqbal Nazmul Islam Mahmudullah Mehidy Hasan Miraz Mohammad Mithun Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Mustafizur Rahman Mosaddek Hossain Saikat Nazmul Hossain Shanto	Anshuman Rath (c) Tanwir Afzal Nadeem Ahmed Tanveer Ahmed Haroon Arshed Christopher Carter Babar Hayat Aftab Hussain Raag Kapur Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Waqas Khan Cameron McAuslan Scott McKechnie Ehsan Nawaz Kinchit Shah	Rohit Sharma (c) Shikhar Dhawan (vc) Khaleel Ahmed Jasprit Bumrah Yuzvendra Chahal MS Dhoni (wk) Kedar Jadhav Dinesh Karthik (wk) Bhuvneshwar Kumar K. L. Rahul Manish Pandey Hardik Pandya Axar Patel Ambati Rayudu Shardul Thakur Kuldeep Yadav	Sarfraz Ahmed (c, wk) Shaheen Afridi Asif Ali Hasan Ali Mohammad Amir Faheem Ashraf Babar Azam Junaid Khan Shadab Khan Usman Khan Shoaib Malik Shan Masood Mohammad Nawaz Haris Sohail Imam-ul-Haq Fakhar Zaman	Angelo Mathews (c) Amila Aponso Dushmantha Chameera Dinesh Chandimal (wk) Akila Dananjaya Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Danushka Gunathilaka Shehan Jayasuriya Suranga Lakmal Lasith Malinga Kusal Mendis Dilruwan Perera Kusal Perera (wk) Thisara Perera Kasun Rajitha Dasun Shanaka Dhananjaya de Silva Upul Tharanga

Before the start of the tournament, Wafadar Momand was ruled out of Afghanistan's squad due to injury and was replaced by Yamin Ahmadzai,^[21] and Mominul Haque was added to Bangladesh's squad.^[22] Dinesh Chandimal and Danushka Gunathilaka were ruled out of Sri Lanka's squad due to injury. They were replaced by Niroshan Dickwella and Shehan Jayasuriya respectively.