India made a solid start in the Asia Cup 2025 campaign with a big win over the UAE on September 10 at Dubai.
They secured a 9-wicket win in the back of impressive bowling and a solid start from the top order in Wednesday’s clash. India won the game with a massive net run rate of +10.483 in the Asia Cup 2025 points table.
After putting the UAE to bat first, India made a solid start with Bumrah picking the wicket of the opener Sharafu for 22 runs.
With Varun Chakravarthy picking the wickets of Muhammad Zohaib for 2 runs, UAE posted 41 runs for 2 wickets by the end of the power play.
Kuldeep Yadav assaulted the UAE in the ninth over of the innings, picking a total of three dismissals. He picked the wicket of Rahul Chopra for 3 runs in the first ball of the over.
He continued to pick wickets of Muhammad Waseem and Harshit Kaushik for 19 and 2 respectively deeply wounding UAE’s line up as the hosts lost five wickets for 50 runs.
Shivam Dube who came to bowl, picked the wicket of Asif Khan for 2 runs. On the other hand, Axar Patel picked the wicket of Simranjeet Singh.
Withs Shivam Dube picking the wickets of Dhruv Parashar and Junaid Siddique for 1 and 0 respectively, Haider Ali got dismissed by Kuldeep Yadav in the first ball of the 14th over.
A dominating show with the bat! 💪
A 9⃣-wicket win for #TeamIndia after chasing down the target in 4.3 overs. 👏👏
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— BCCI (@BCCI) September 10, 2025
UAE scored only 57 runs where Kuldeep picked four wickets, Shivam Dube bagged three wickets while Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah had one dismissals each.
India will be need 58 runs to claim their first win of the Asia Cup 2025 campaign.
In the pursuit of chasing 58 runs, Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill opened the innings while Haider Ali opened the bowling attack.
Abhishek made an aggressive start smashing 30 runs off 16 deliveries which included 2 fours and 3 sixes.
With Junaid bagged the wickets of Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav went finish the game in the fifth over as Gill scored 20 and SKY finished with 7* runs.
Kuldeep Yadav was named as the Player of the match. Speaking at the post match conference, Yadav said, “Thanks to Adrian the trainer. Was working on my bowling and my fitness as well, everything is going perfectly,”
“Tried to hit the right length and it matters a lot, reading the batters on what they are trying to do. Even today as well, reacting to what the batters would do on the next ball,” he concluded.
India will play their next game against their arch-rivals Pakistan on September 14 at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai.
