Former India player Aakash Chopra has commented that India’s biggest challenge in the ongoing Asia Cup 2025 will be in the final. He added that it would be a knockout game, with the conditions not being batting-friendly.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “I feel it will come straightaway in the final because that will be a knockout game. This is a challenging format. This is the T20 format, the targets have been small, and it has not been a 200-plus tournament. If this had been a 200-plus tournament, there would have been such a huge difference between the other teams and India. We would have been miles ahead of everyone else, but that’s not the case. It’s been 150 to 160-run matches. So the teams come closer to each other.”

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However, Aakash Chopra also stated that the conditions ensured that Team India’s last few T20I matches against Pakistan weren’t one-sided.

“Even if you check out the last few India-Pakistan matches, although it has become one-sided these days, it wasn’t the case in the last few games. When it was a match of around 125 runs in New York, it suddenly became close. Even in Melbourne, it wasn’t a very high-scoring match. So the smaller the totals get, the closer the teams would come to each other, and that is what is happening, not just with India-Pakistan, but also with any teams. The conditions are bringing the others closer to India, or else India are miles ahead of everyone else in this Asia Cup,” Aakash Chopra concluded.