The 2025 edition of the Asia Cup will be played from September 9 to 28 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The matches will be played in T20I format this year. In the Asia Cup 2025, many top players will miss the action on the field after being ignored by selectors of their respective countries. Here’s a look at the best XI of players ignored for the Asia Cup 2025.

Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored 723 runs in 23 T20Is for Team India. He has a batting strike rate of 164.31 in the shortest format of the game. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Babar Azam is Pakistan’s most capped player (128) as well as the leading run getter (4223) in the T20Is. (Picture Credit: AFP)

In 51 T20Is played so far for Team India, Shreyas Iyer has scored 1104 runs. He last played a T20I match for India in December 2023. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Mohammad Rizwan has scored 3414 runs in 106 T20Is played so far for the Men in Green. (Picture Credit: AFP)

KL Rahul last played a T20I match for India in November 2022. He has 2265 runs to his credit in 72 T20Is. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Ifitkhar Ahmed has scored 998 runs in 66 T20I matches for Pakistan, and in addition to that, he has also dismissed eight batters. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Star all-rounder and former stand-in captain Shadab Khan also failed to find a place in Pakistan’s Asia Cup 2025 squad. Shadab has 792 runs and 112 wickets to his name in 112 T20I matches played so far. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Washington Sundar has played 54 T20Is for India so far, and in those matches he has picked up 48 wickets in addition to scoring 193 runs with a strike rate of 121.38. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Former world No. 1 T20I bowler Ravi Bishnoi has accounted for the dismissal of 61 batters in 42 matches. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Naseem Shah, who has 25 wickets to his name in 30 T20I matches played so far, is also ignored for the Asia Cup 2025 by the PCB selection committee. (Picture Credit: AFP)

Mohammed Shami played in the last T20I series for India against England but was ignored by BCCI selectors for the Asia Cup 2025. (Picture Credit: AFP)