The spinner Kuldeep Yadav went on to bag three wickets in a single over during the Asia Cup 2025 game against the United Arab Emirates at Dubai.
His three-wicket over has put the hosts, UAE a tough spot as they lost a total of five wickets for 50 runs by the end of the 9th over.
After putting UAE to bat first, India made a solid start with Bumrah picking the wicket of the opener Sharafu for 22 runs.
With Varun Charkravarthy picking the wickets of Muhammad Zohaib for 2 runs, UAE posted 41 runs for 2 wickets by the end of powerplay.
Kuldeep Yadav made assault during the ninth over of the innings picking 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.
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.
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Speaking at the toss, Suryakumar Yadav said, “We’ll bowl first. Looks a nice fresh wicket. Humid also today, might be dew later. If we get an opportunity, we’re flexible to do anything but today we want to bowl. We came here early, had 3-4 good practice sessions and also a day off.”
Meanwhile, Muhammad Waseem said, “We were also looking to bowl. Pitch is fresh and maybe the ball will do something early. We had a good series, took many positive points and we’re confident from that series. We’re going with a good combination with spinners and fast bowlers, and juniors and seniors.”
India Playing 11: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson(w), Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy
UAE Playing 11: Muhammad Waseem(c), Alishan Sharafu, Muhammad Zohaib, Rahul Chopra(w), Asif Khan, Harshit Kaushik, Haider Ali, Dhruv Parashar, Muhammad Rohid Khan, Junaid Siddique, Simranjeet Singh
