Asia Cup 2012 battle begins on 11th March 2012

Asia cup 2012 will begin on 11th March 2012 at Shere Bangladesh National Stadium, Mirpur in Bangladesh. Four Asian Cricket playing nations (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) contest in this competition. Following is a brief history of the Asia cup winners.

The Asia cup competing squads for each country

India

MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virat Kohli (vice-capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Manoj Tiwary, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Rahul Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ashok Dinda

Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav, Parthiv Patel were not included in the squad. 

Pakistan

Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Hammad Azam, Asad Shafiq, Shahid Afridi, Azhar Ali, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Umar Gul, Aizaz Cheema, Wahab Riaz

Shoaib Malik, Imran Farhat, Adnan Akmal were not included in the squad. 

Sri Lanka

Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Angelo Mathews (vice-capt), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Dinesh Chandimal, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thisara Perera, Farveez Maharoof, Sachithra Senanayake, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Seekkuge Prasanna, Suranga Lakmal

Rangana Herath, Dhammika Prasad, Chanaka Welegedara were not included in the squad.

Bangladesh

Imrul Kayes, Nazimuddin, Jahurul Islam, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Elias Sunny, Nazmul Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Shahadat Hossain, Anamul Haque

Alok Kapali, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain, Shahriar Nafees were not included in the squad.