Asia Cup 2025: “It is not an increase in curtains, it is only a curtain” – R Ashwin Slams lacks competition against India | Cricket news
New Delhi: Former Indian Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave a scathing assessment of the Asian Cup in progress 2025, wondering if the tournament offers a real challenge to Team India. The eight -country event began on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi with Afghanistan against Hong Kong, but Ashwin thinks that the format lacks competitiveness.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Speaking on his YouTube channel, Ashwin joked: “They can almost include South Africa and make it an Afro-Asie cup to make the tournament competitive. As he is now, they should probably include an India a team for a competition.
Team India enters the Asian Cup as a firm favorite, after winning 17 of their last 20 T20is, since the triumph of the T20 2024 World Cup. Ashwin admitted that he hoped for a surprise winner only to inject excitement in the regional competition. “In a way, I really hope someone else will win the tournament. Because it is only then that there will be a competition in Asia. None of these teams chooses Kuldeep or Varun. And we haven’t even talked about the powerful range of strikers from India, who has matches in Gogo.“”
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The 38 -year -old man also dismissed the suggestions that the Asian Cup could act as an accumulation of the T20 2026 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. “It is not an increase in curtains for the T20 2026 World Cup, it is only a curtain. This tournament is not a major stallion for this. Even against the so-called threatening of Afghanists, if India beats well and scoring 170+, with whom Afghanistan will continue this with? It is almost impossible.“”Ashwin summed up the challenge for the rivals with frankness: “The only way to defeat India is by restricting them in a way at 155 by a good day, then hunting it. Normally, a T20 is exciting, but India will probably even do this unilateral part in this cut in Asia. ”India began its campaign against the United Arab Emirates in Dubai on Wednesday.
