Pakistan beat UAE to enter Super 4s, set up high-stakes Sunday rematch with India

NEW DELHI: Amid each the drama, chaos, and delays surrounding Pakistan’s Asia Cup campaign, the squad yet made it to the Dubai International Stadium to instrumentality connected the United Arab Emirates connected Wednesday. Despite a precocious commencement and the lingering contention from their group-stage nonaccomplishment to India and the handshake saga, Pakistan delivered a beardown all-round performance, securing a comfy 41-run triumph and booking their spot successful the Super Four.

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With this win, Pakistan not lone advancement to the Super Four but besides acceptable up a high-stakes rematch against India connected Sunday astatine the aforesaid venue, promising different thrilling contest.The lucifer started an hour late arsenic Pakistan threatened a pull-out aft the handshake fiasco during the erstwhile crippled against India earlier Salman Agha's squad climbed down and showed up for the game.Put into bat, Pakistan had a shaky start. Saim Ayub fell without scoring, followed soon by Sahibzada Farhan, leaving the squad reeling astatine 9 for 2 wrong the 2nd over. Fakhar Zaman and Salman Agha tried to stabilise the innings, but wickets kept tumbling astatine regular intervals. Fakhar made a valiant 50, portion skipper Salman Agha contributed 20 earlier falling to Dhruv Parashar.Shaheen Afridi’s precocious hitting proved decisive, finishing unbeaten connected 29 and guiding Pakistan to a defendable full of 146 for 9 successful 20 overs. Afridi had antecedently impressed with 33 not out, including 4 sixes, against India.

Junaid Siddique starred with the shot for UAE, picking up 4 captious wickets for 34 runs, portion Simranjeet Singh claimed 3 more.Chasing 147, UAE tried to follow a cautious attack to debar different debased total, but their dilatory scoring made the people unrealistic. Rahul Chopra (35) and Dhruv Parashar (20) added 48 for the 4th wicket, but it wasn’t enough. Pakistan maintained power throughout, and from 85 for 3 aft 14 overs, UAE collapsed to 105 each retired successful 17.4 overs.