Asia Cup 2025: Surya presented an example of sportsmanship, called UAE batsman back after being dismissed

The Indian team defeated the UAE team by 9 wickets in the second match of Asia Cup 2025 on Wednesday. The UAE team could not play all over. The UAE team started well but could not last long in front of Indian bowlers. At the same time, during this match, captain Suryakumar Yadav presented the game of sportsmanship. Seeing which everyone is praising them.

The incident occurred in the 13th over of the innings of Darus, UAE. Junaid Siddiqui bridge on the third ball towards Shivam Dubey but the ball and bat were not contacted. However, before that bowler Shivam Dubey’s towel fell before the umpire, which distracted the batsman’s attention. After the ball was completed, Junaid told the umpire and the bowler about it, but by then Sanju Samson, standing behind the wicket, stumped him out. When the umpire checked, Junaid was standing outside the crease and pointing about the towel.

The umpire had called Junaid Siddiqui out but Indian captain Surya withdrew the appeal. Because he felt that the UAE batsman was distracted by the towel falling and for this reason he remained outside the crease. The umpire gave a not out of Surya and not out the UAE batsman. This sportsmanship of Suryakumar is being praised everywhere. However, he could not take advantage of the opportunity again and was caught out in an attempt to play a big shot on the next ball. Surya caught his catch.