The 2025 Asia Cup is planned to begin in the UAE on September 9 and go until September 28. Given that the T20 World Cup will take place in 2027, the next competition will be contested in the T20 format. Only twice previously, in 2016 and 2022, has the competition been played in the T20 format.
Eight teams have been split into two groups of four each to compete in the 2025 Asia Cup. Group A includes hosts UAE, Oman, India, and Pakistan, all of which are bitter rivals. Group B includes Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The top two teams from each group advance to the Super Four phase, where the top two teams advance to the championship game.
Superstars like Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni have participated in the Asia Cup over the years. We compare their competition statistics before to the 2025 event. We shall go into more depth about the players’ T20 statistics because the forthcoming event will be played in the T20 format.
1. Virat Kohli vs MS Dhoni – Who has scored more runs and has a better average in the Asia Cup?
In the T20 Asia Cup, Kohli has participated in ten games. He has amassed 429 runs at a respectable average of 85.80 in nine innings. In the 2016 edition, the 36-year-old averaged 76.50 runs in four innings, scoring 153 runs. In 2022, he averaged 92 runs in five innings.
Virat Kohli has played 16 games in the ODI format of the tournament with 742 runs with a strike rate of 99.73 and average of 61.83. He possesses one hundred and four half-centuries. In his highest score of 183 versus Pakistan in Mirpur in 2012, Kohli got 22 fours and one six.
Dhoni played five matches on the Twenty20 in the Asia Cup. In 2016, he recorded 42 runs in four innings and zero average due to not having lost any game.
The former captain of India had played in 19 Asia Cup ODI. He had 648 runs at an average of 64.80 and a strike rate of 87.68 in one hundred and three half-centuries, which gave him 16 innings. Highest score, 109 star against Hong Kong, 96 balls, six fours and as many sixes.
2. Virat Kohli vs MS Dhoni – Who has a better strike rate in the Asia Cup?
The strike rate of Kohli in 10 T20 Asia Cup matches (nine innings) was 132. The star batter had a strike rate of 110.86 based on four innings in the 2016 version compared to 147.59 based on five innings in the 2022 edition.
Dhoni was hitting at 280 in five T20 Asia Cup games (four innings). During the 2016 tournament he hit six balls off Bangladesh in Mirpur with a strike rate of 333.33.
3. Virat Kohli vs MS Dhoni – Who has more 50-plus scores in the Asia Cup?
In the T20 Asia Cup, Kohli scored 103 fifties and four other scores of 50 or more in nine innings. In 2022, he played Afghanistan in Dubai and reached his highest score of 122* off 61 balls. The Indian batting sensation overcame his three-year century drought with a knock that included 12 fours and six sixes.
Dhoni failed to achieve a single score of fifty or more in the four innings in the T20 Asia Cup. Since he played the part of a finisher, it makes sense. In 2016, he faced Bangladesh in Mirpur and scored his highest score of 20* from six balls.
4. Virat Kohli vs MS Dhoni – Who has a better record in winning causes in the Asia Cup?
In the eight T20 Asia Cup games that India has won, Kohli has played. He has amassed 369 runs in seven innings with a strike rate of 133.21, average 123. With a peak of 122* in a 101-run victory over Afghanistan in Dubai during the 2022 tournament, he has amassed 122 half-centuries.
In the 2016 edition in Mirpur, Dhoni played five matches, all of which India won. Since Dhoni was not removed once in four innings, as was previously noted, he did not have an average in the competition.
