Asia Cup 2022: 5 Big Players who will miss the tournament

The Asia Cup 2022 is set to begin in just under a week’s time and all the participating teams would be hoping to showcase memorable performances in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be crowned the champions of the continent. This year’s Asia Cup will be played in the T20 format as a dress rehearsal for the T20 World Cup down under in October-November. Meanwhile, this will be the second time that the tournament will be played in the shortest format after 2016. India are the defending champions.

As all the teams across the continent get set to battle for glory, there are a few seasoned players who will be missing the tournament due to some reason or the other. While a couple of them have suffered injuries, others have been omitted by their respective national selectors. Their exclusion does leave the teams in a spot of bother as far as both frontlines, as well as reserves, are concerned. Without further ado, here’s a look at five of them.

5 Big players who are missing Asia Cup 2022:

1. Jasprit Bumrah

This is indeed a huge setback for the Indian team. Jasprit Bumrah who was an integral part of India’s Asia Cup triumph in 2018 has been ruled out of the tournament due to a back injury. Bumrah who had taken a six-wicket haul in England was given a break for the limited-overs series against the West Indies and it was supposedly during that break he must have suffered an injury.

Jasprit’s injury dealt a huge blow to India after medium-pacer Harshal Patel was already ruled out of the competition due to a rib injury that he had suffered in the Caribbean.

All eyes will now be on the young pacers including the likes of Arshdeep Singh and Avesj Khan as they get set to play their first major tournament. With Mohammed Shami’s absence, the onus will be on senior pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar to take care of the Indian pace attack.