Asia Cup 2025, UAE vs OMA Match 7: UAE vs Oman Toss update and Playing XI

It is a match for the sake of pride for both of the nations. The United Arab Emirates, the host, and their rival of the evening, Oman, both started their Asia Cup 2025 campaign sustaining heavy defeats.

Despite the match results, both teams found some bright spots in their game against top-tier cricket teams of Asia. Aamir Kaleem and Shah Faisal were surprisingly brilliant against Pakistan. They proved their importance in the team by disturbing Pakistan's star-studded batting lineup. Oman's batting lineup caused trouble for them. Their records against the UAE are also not impressive enough, though; the UAE, too, failed to display impressive batting performance. In the last 5 matches, UAE won 3 against Oman, and Oman emerged victorious on 2 occasions against UAE. Though that will matter little, because in a game like this, that’s what will decide who comes out on top.

Hosts The United Arab Emirates entered the tournament after showing promising cricket in the Tri-Nation Series against Afghanistan and Pakistan, but their campaign got off to a rough start as they were dismantled by India in their opening game. 

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Toss update:

The Oman cricket team has won the toss and elected to bowl first. Their skipper showed enough faith in their in-form bowlers. 

Playing XIs 

United Arab Emirates—Alishan Sharafu, Muhammad Waseem (C), Muhammad Zohaib, Rahul Chopra (WK), Asif Khan, Harshit Kaushik, Dhruv Parashar, Haider Ali, Junaid Siddique, Muhammad Rohid, Muhammad Jawadullah.

Oman—Aamir Kaleem, Jatinder Singh (C), Hammad Mirza, Vinayak Shukla (WK), Wasim Ali (in place of Mohammad Nadeem), Hassnain Shah, Jiten Ramanandi (in place of Sufyan Mehmood), Aryan Bisht (in place of Zikriya Islam), Shah Faisal, Shakeel Ahmed, and Samay Shrivastava.