Madan Lal backs India as favourites in Asia Cup, suggests Kuldeep Yadav's inclusion in playing 11

New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): Former Indian Cricketer Madan Lal backs the Indian squad arsenic favourites successful the upcoming Asia Cup (T20) successful Dubai, and helium believes spinner Kuldeep Yadav should beryllium included successful the playing 11 for his unsocial bowling style.

India volition footwear disconnected their run against the UAE connected September 10, portion the high-voltage crippled against Pakistan is scheduled for September 14, with some fixtures acceptable to beryllium played successful Dubai. India volition play their last radical signifier fixture against Oman connected September 19 successful Abu Dhabi.

'India is simply a beardown favourite owed to their skilled team. The unpredictability of the T20 format and the performances of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, noting that Afghanistan is presently playing well. There is contention implicit the squad combination, peculiarly the exclusion of Shreyas Iyer, with selections often decided by selectors and coaches... Afghanistan is seen arsenic a imaginable challenger to Pakistan, whose existent show and assurance levels are questioned. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan are considered beardown contenders. Kuldeep Yadav should beryllium included successful the squad owed to his unsocial bowling style, which is hard to antagonistic successful T20 cricket, though the last determination depends connected the wicket conditions and squad combination. Two spinners and 3 gait bowlers should beryllium included successful Dubai,' Madan Lal told ANI.

Kuldeep Yadav did not get a accidental to play successful the precocious concluded five-Test bid betwixt India and England; however, helium was named successful India's Asia Cup squad. Yadav has taken 69 wickets successful 40 planetary fixtures, with a bowling mean of 14.07 and a champion of 5/17 against South Africa.

Yadav hasn't featured successful immoderate planetary cricket since the Indian Premier League (IPL). He had a decent outing successful the IPL 2025, scalping 15 wickets successful 14 fixtures astatine an mean of 24.07 and a superb system of 7.08.

India, isolated from Axar Patel, has lone 2 spinners successful their Asia Cup squad, Varun Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav. India has gone with the 3 spinners thought successful their erstwhile 2 ICC rubric triumphs successful the T20 World Cup past year, followed by the Champions Trophy earlier this year.

After the radical stage, the tourney volition proceed to the Super 4, wherever the apical 2 teams from each radical volition qualify. If India finishes astatine the apical of Group A, past each of their Super 4 matches volition beryllium held successful Dubai. If India finishes second, past 1 of their Super 4 clashes volition beryllium held successful Abu Dhabi, and the remaining 2 volition beryllium held successful Dubai. The Super 4 signifier volition tally from September 20 to 26. Dubai volition big the final, which is scheduled for September 28.

Team India squad for Asia Cup: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

Reserve players: Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal. (ANI)