The green squadu2019s captain has played many match-winning knocks for Pakistan in his last matches and can be seen playing a good knock against India. Often compared and seen as a mirror image of Virat Kohli, Pakistanu2019s skipper is sweating hard for the Asia Cup. Azam is all set to lead the Pakistan team in Asia Cup, and stating the dry pitch of UAE, Azam can perform better against spinners in the tournament. Babar Azam has played 5 ODI matches against India, scoring 158 runs with an average of 31.60 and a strike rate of 75.96. Skipper can be seen to open the innings for Pakistan in the tournament with Mohammad Rizwan.Take a look at the squads for Asia Cup 2022 below,
| Pakistan Squad | India Squad |
| Babar Azam (captain) | Rohit Sharma (c) |
| Mohammad Rizwan | KL Rahul |
| Fakhar Zaman | Suryakumar Yadav |
| Haider Ali | Rishabh Pant |
| Shadab Khan (vice-captain) | Deepak Hooda |
| Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz | Dinesh Karthik |
| Haris Rauf | Hardik Pandya |
| Usman Qadir | Ravindra Jadeja |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | R Ashwin |
| Naseem Shah | Yuzvendra Chahal |
| Avesh Khan | |
| Arshdeep Singh | |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | |
| Ravi Bishnoi
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