ACC Asia Cup 2025: India and Pakistan will face each other on 14 September in Asia Cup 2025. This match will be played in T20 format. The tournament will run from 9 to 28 September. Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chief Mohsin Naqvi has confirmed the dates of the tournament.
4 teams have been placed in different groups. India and Pakistan have been placed in the same group. Group A consists of India, Pakistan, UAE and Oman. Group B consists of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.
This tournament will start from 9 September. The first match will be played between Afghanistan and Hong Kong. India's first match will be against UAE on 10 September. India's second match is against Pakistan on 14 September. It is Sunday. India's third match is against Oman on 19 September.
The specific venues for individual matches are yet to be finalised. Notably, the previous edition of the Asia Cup was held in a hybrid model after India refused to travel to Pakistan, the hosts of the 2023 tournament. Sri Lanka hosted nine matches, including the final, while Pakistan hosted four.
In this tournament the match between India and Pakistan is going to take place at a time when the relations between the two countries are at their worst in the last few years. After the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India launched Operation Sindoor on 7 May. After this, Pakistan attacked the Indian Army, for which it got a befitting reply and many of its military bases were destroyed. Since then, there was a demand for complete boycott of Pakistan at the level of international cricket. Not only this, after huge protests, the India-Pakistan match in the World Championship of Legends also had to be cancelled.
India and Pakistan can meet as many as three times in the Asia Cup. While their group stage meeting is scheduled for 14 September, they can meet once again on 22 September if they qualify together for the Super Four stage. The broadcasters will be hoping for an India vs Pakistan final, which has never happened before in the history of the tournament.
Asia Cup 2025 Schedule
9 September: Afghanistan vs Hong Kong
10 September: India vs UAE
11 September: Bangladesh vs Hong Kong
12 September: Pakistan vs Oman
13 September: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
14 September: India vs Pakistan
15 September: Sri Lanka vs Hong Kong
15 September: UAE vs Oman
16 September: Bangladesh vs
Afghanistan
17 September: Pakistan vs UAE
18 September: Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan
19 September: India vs Oman
Super 4 Schedule
20 September, B1 vs B2
21 September, A1 vs A2 (Possible India vs Pakistan)
23 September, A2 vs B1
24 September, A1 vs B2
25 September, A2 vs B2
26 September, A1 vs B1
28 September, Final.
