India’s B team will also beat this Pakistan team: Ex-Indian cricketer

Former Indian bowler Atul Wassan has stated that the Indian B team will also defeat the current Pakistan team despite the absence of the veteran batting duo of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the current Indian T20I team.

Notably, India is scheduled to take on Pakistan in their next Asia Cup 2025 encounter on Sunday, September 14, in Dubai. Since the Kohli-Rohit era, India has played 21 T20Is, winning 18 of them.

“India’s B team will also beat this Pakistan team because things have changed. When we played in the 90s, they were a very good side. Now the boot is on the other foot. I will not miss Rohit (Sharma) and Virat (Kohli) because then I will start missing Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev also,” said Wassan on CNN-News18.

“The king is dead, long live the king. Things move, new superstars come in, and this embarrassment of riches, and I feel sorry for the selectors because to keep everyone in the mix, who’s to drop and who’s to pick,” he added.

In the ongoing eight-team showpiece event, Group A has teams, namely India, Oman, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates, while Group B has Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka.

India’s 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.

Standby players: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, and Dhruv Jurel.

Pakistan’s squad for Asia Cup: Salman Ali Agha (c), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Waseem Jnr, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Afridi, Sufyan Moqim.

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