New Delhi: The former Indian off-Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin carried out a frightened asia Cup 2025 and questioned whether the tournament offers a real challenge for India. The eighth -term event began on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi with Afghanistan, who faced Hong Kong, but Ashwin believes that the format lacks competitiveness.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!Ashwin, who spoke on his YouTube channel, joked: “They can almost include South Africa and make it Afro-Asia Cup to make the tournament competitive. As it is now, they should probably include India to be a competition.
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Team India enters the Asia Cup as solid favorites, after winning 17 of its last 20 T20i, from the World Cup triumph 2024 T20. Ashwin admitted that he hopes that a surprising winner would pure the excitement into the regional competition. “In a way, I really hope someone else will win the tournament. Because only then there will be a competition in Asia. None of these teams selects Kuldeep or Varun. And we didn’t even talk about the strong Indian bats that had a match winner.”
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A 38 -year -old man also postponed the suggestions that the Asia Cup could act as accumulation of the World Cup T20 in India and Sri Lanka. “It is not a breeder for the T20 World Cup from 2026, it is just a curtain. This tournament is not a big scale for it. Even against the so -called Afghanistan pitch, if India is well and a 170+ score that Afghanistan will chase” ” It’s almost impossible. “Ashwin summarized the challenge for opponents honestly: “The only way to defeat India is to somehow reduce them to 155 for a good day and then chase it. Normally the T20 is exciting, but India is likely to do the unilateral in this Asian Cup.”India will start his campaign against UAE in Dubai on Wednesday.
