Haris Rauf is all set to represent Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2025, to be held from September 9 to 28 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The eight-team tournament has placed Pakistan in Group A, along with India, UAE and Oman.
Pakistan will start their Asia Cup 2025 campaign on September 12 against Oman in Dubai. Then on September 14, they will face India at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. The last time Pakistan played a T20I match against India was on June 9, 2024, during the T20 World Cup in New York where they failed to chase a target of 120.
If both India and Pakistan top Group A in this year’s Asia Cup, they will meet again in the Super Fours stage.
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Before the Asia Cup 2025, Rauf is confident. In a video going viral, a fan asked Rauf if Pakistan will play India twice in the tournament. Rauf replied, Both matches are ours, God willing,
Haris Rauf on Pakistan vs India. 🇵🇰🔥 pic.twitter.com/1nywqFxGou
— Sheri. (@CallMeSheri1_) August 24, 2025
Rauf who holds the record for Pakistan’s highest wicket-taker in T20Is with 120 wickets in 87 matches has played five T20Is against India and has taken seven wickets. In the 2022 Asia Cup, Haris played two matches against India and took one wicket.
Notably, former captains Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan will not be part of Pakistan’s squad for the Asia Cup 2025. The PCB selectors did not pick Babar and Rizwan in the 17-member squad. The last T20I match Babar and Rizwan played for Pakistan was in December 2024 against South Africa. Besides Babar and Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Shadab Khan and Iftikhar Ahmed were also left out by the selection committee.
Salman Ali Agha will captain the Pakistani team which includes players like Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Haris, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Nawaz among others.
Pakistan’s last Asia Cup victory was in 2012 under Misbah-ul-Haq. In 2023, Pakistan did not make it to the finals.
