The 2025 edition of the Asia Cup for the defending champions, India, has already started on September 10 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium through the fixture against the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the opening day, Afghanistan, locking horns with Hong Kong China, had already earned a 94-run victory in Abu Dhabi as the rest wait for their chance.

The mouth-watering clash of the event will be on September 14 at the same venue against Pakistan. The last clash for the Blue Brigade in the group stage will be on September 19 against Oman at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. If they win and earn points, they can comfortably progress to the Super Four stage of the competition.

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The Sony Sports Network is telecasting India’s clash against the UAE in Dubai on television, while the Sony LIV app is streaming the encounter. For the latest news and updates on the clash, the advice is to keep an eye on the website and its Telegram Channel. Meanwhile, it’s a huge stage for all teams to prepare for the T20 World Cup 2026 in India and Sri Lanka.

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In Dubai, India’s captain, Suryakumar Yadav, won the toss to end their 15-toss losing streak and decided to bowl first on a surface that hasn’t held a game for a long time. As they wanted to get the help of the surface, the management went with Sanju Samson as the wicket-keeper batter in the middle order. They surprisingly left out Arshdeep Singh from the playing eleven.

UAE made a strong and aggressive start to the innings with Alishan Sharafu drilling Hardik Pandya for two successive boundaries in the opening over before he clubbed Axar Patel over the cover for a lovely drive to earn six runs. But Jasprit Bumrah, playing his first T20I in more than a year, broke his stumps.

Varun Chakaravarthy sent back Muhammed Zohaib for two runs in five balls as Rahul Chopra was caught by the bowling of Kuldeep Yadav, who was also playing his first T20I in more than a year. In that over, he got two more wickets of Waseem and Harshit Kaushik to have figures of 3/7 in two overs.