Follow UsThe 2025 Asia Cup starts in just over a week’s time, and it goes without saying that team India, led by Suryakumar Yadav, will walk into the competition as overwhelming favourites. Not only are India the No.1 T20I side in the world, they enter the Asia Cup having won a whopping 29 of their last 32 completed T20Is.
Given they are, on paper, head and shoulders above every other team, the SKY-led India side will definitely be aiming to break new ground in the Asia Cup 2025.
Along similar lines, we look at three all-time records the Men in Blue can set in the multi-nation tournament.
Team India already hold the record for the highest team total by a full-member side against a fellow full-member - 297/6 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad last year.
However, you reckon that this time around, they might very well be aiming for the highest total in T20I history.
The current record belongs to Zimbabwe, who posted 344/4 against Gambia in Nairobi last year. It’s a massive, massive ask, given India have never even touched 300 in T20Is previously. However, they did cross 280 twice in the space of a month last year, so nothing is out of the reach of this Indian team.
With them playing both Oman and the UAE in the group stages, India could end up setting a new record if everything ends up falling into place in one of the matches.
Again, another record that belongs to Zimbabwe. They hit 27 sixes against Gambia, which is an all-time record. In fact, there are only two instances of a team hitting 25+ sixes in a T20I: Zimbabwe vs Gambia last year and Nepal vs Mongolia in the Asian Games in 2023 (26).
India, though, came really close to joining this list, as they hit 23 sixes vs South Africa in Johannesburg last year. That’s still the most sixes hit by any team against another full-member team.
You won’t put it out of this Indian team’s reach to hit five more sixes, get to 28 sixes in a single innings and set a new all-time record. This is, after all, a team packed with brutal six-hitters.
You would never believe which team holds this record. Duh, Zimbabwe, OF COURSE!
They had four players smash fifties against Gambia. In fact, it’s a joint T20 record too. Baroda are the only other team in T20 history to have four players score fifties in an innings (against Sikkim last year).
Can India somehow get five different half-centurions in the space of 120 balls? Not impossible, although highly unlikely. You’re basically looking at a scenario where you have a couple of batters scoring 15-18 ball fifties, and three others scoring 20-ish ball fifties. And no one in particular batting long.
Never say never?