The 2025 Asia Cup Rising Stars (also known as DP World Asia Cup Rising Stars for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural edition of the Asia Cup Rising Stars that was played in November 2025 in Qatar. Eight teams competed in the tournament, including 'A' teams, i.e. the reserve squads from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, as well as three qualifiers from the 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup. The tournament was organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).
Teams The participating teams were placed in the following groups.
Group AGroup B Afghanistan A Bangladesh A
Sri Lanka A India A
Pakistan Shaheens
Squads India A Darwish Rasooli (c) Sediqullah Atal (vc) Qais Ahmad Ijaz Ahmad Ahmadzai Abdollah Ahmadzai Zubaid Akbari Faridoon Dawoodzai Farmanullah Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Nangeyalia Kharote Imran Mir Noor Rahman (wk) Bilal Sami Rahmanullah Zadran Akbar Ali (c, wk) Zawad Abrar (wk) Abu Hider Tofael Ahmed Jishan Alam Yasir Ali Mahidul Islam Ankon (wk) Ariful Islam Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Shadhin Islam SM Meherob Ripon Mondol Rakibul Hasan Abdul Gaffar Saqlain Habibur Rahman Sohan Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Kalhan Challu Mohammad Ghazanfar Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Shiv Mathur Hassan Khan Mohammad Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Kinchit Shah Mohammad Waheed Jitesh Sharma (c, wk) Naman Dhir (vc) Priyansh Arya Harsh Dubey Abhishek Porel (wk) Ashutosh Sharma Suyash Sharma Suryansh Shedge Ramandeep Singh Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Gurjapneet Singh Yudhvir Singh Yash Thakur Vijaykumar Vyshak Nehal Wadhera Pakistan Shaheens Sri Lanka A Hammad Mirza (c) Wasim Ali Shuaib Al Balushi Aryan Bisht Zikria Islam Shafiq Jan Pruthvikumar Machhi Obaidullah Jay Odedra Muzahir Raza Narayan Saishiv Hassnain Shah Samay Shrivastava Mohammed Yousuf Sufyan Yousaf (wk) Irfan Khan Niazi (c) Shahid Aziz Ahmed Daniyal Mohammad Faiq Ghazi Ghori (wk) Mubasir Khan Yasir Khan Saad Masood Arafat Minhas Salman Mirza Sufiyan Muqeem Mohammad Naeem Maaz Sadaqat Ubaid Shah Muhammad Shahzad Dunith Wellalage (c) Sahan Arachchige Lasith Croospulle Sohan de Livera Nuwanidu Fernando Vishen Halambage Pramod Madushan Nishan Madushka (wk) Traveen Mathew Ramesh Mendis Milan Rathnayake Garuka Sanketh Vijayakanth Viyaskanth Ahan Wickramasinghe Isitha Wijesundara Alishan Sharafu (c) Zahid Ali Muhammad Arfan Ethan D'Souza Mohammed Faraazuddin Muhammad Farooq Syed Haider (wk) Muhammad Jawadullah Harshit Kaushik Sohaib Khan Mayank Kumar Aayan Afzal Khan Yayin Kiran Rai Muhammad Rohid Ahmed Tariq Afghanistan also named Yama Arab, Sediqullah Pacha and Wafiullah Tarakhil as reserve players.
Preparations Afghanistan in Qatar
The Afghan squad played a 3-match series against Qatar, the last of which had official T20I status.
Hong Kong in Qatar
Hong Kong played two T20Is against Qatar before the tournament.
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
Group stage The fixtures were announced by ACC on 31 October 2025.
Group A Points table
Fixtures
Group B Points table
Fixtures
Knockout stage Bracket
Semi-finals 1st semi-final
2nd semi-final
Final
Broadcasting Country or region Television broadcaster Online streamingT SportsWillowSony Sports NetworkSonyLIVPTV SportsSony Sports NetworkTV 1
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo (Qatar v Hong Kong) Series home at ESPNcricinfo (Asia Cup Rising Stars)