🏏T20 Asia Cup 2025: UAE vs Pak, 10th Match, Group A at Dubai🏏 - Page 17

Pakistan won by 41 runs.

Pakistan were late to turn up at the ground, very late to turn up with the bat, but they eventually did turn up. Shaheen Shah Afridi's late hitting must've lifted them heading into the break. From a position of great despair, they finished with 146 after being put into bat, and that has proven to be more than enough. A solid bowling and fielding show has seen to it that they're through to the next round along with India from Group A. They all shared the wickets, except Mohammad Nawaz, and never allowed UAE to get ahead of the chase at any point. There was something in the pitch right through the game, and unfortunately for the UAE their batters weren't good enough. But take nothing away from their spirited performance with the ball earlier, led by Junaid Siddique and Simranjeet Singh. A lot to take away for them as they head out.

Shaheen Afridi, Player of the Match: Just practising in the nets. Whatever am practising, trying to execute the same. Looking forward to the upcoming games. We lost early wickets and then middle overs. My job is to go and hit the ball. Team needed an early breakthrough and I try to provide that.

Salman Agha: We got the job done but we needed to bat better in the middle overs. The bowlers did well. We haven't batted to our best yet. If we batted well, we would have ended up with 170-180. Shaheen is a match winner. His batting has improved. Abrar has been outstanding. He is someone who is bringing us back into the games. We are ready for any challenge. If we play good cricket, we can be good against any side.

Muhammad Waseem: I would give credit to our bowlers. We restricted them to a low total. We lost the game due to our batting. We were going well despite losing 3 wickets in the powerplay. But then lost wickets post the 15th over. Our middle-order had to take some responsibility. We had a good experience. We played against India and Pakistan. We learnt so many things and apply it in upcoming tournaments.

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Pakistan won by 41 runs.

Despite blistering start, uae made a hash of it 🙈

Congratulations to Pak for their easy win against the UAE.

It means, another India Pak match is there.

Details for today's match--

Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan, 11th Match, Group B

Series: Asia Cup 2025

Venue: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Date & Time: Sep 18, 06:30 PM LOCAL

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

It means, another India Pak match is there.

Quite a bad news!