The UAE team has been ruled out of the Asia Cup 2025 after losing the match against Pakistan. At the same time, Pakistan team has made its place in Super-4. In the match played on 17 September, Pakistan defeated UAE by 41 runs. With this defeat, the UAE team’s journey in the tournament ended. At the same time, the UAE captain described the team’s weakness after the match.
Batting first in the match, the Pakistan team gave a target of 147 runs to the UAE on the basis of the batting of Fakhar Zaman and Shaheen Afridi. In response, the UAE team was able to score only 105 runs.
Meanwhile, UAE captain Muhammad Wasim said after the defeat that, I will give credit to our bowlers who stopped them on a lower score. But we lost the match due to our batting. Despite losing 3 wickets in the powerplay, we were in good condition, but after the 15th over, the wickets fell. Middle order should have taken responsibility. This was a good experience. We played against teams like India and Pakistan and learned a lot, which will be implemented in further competitions.
At the same time, this match of Pakistan-UAE started an hour late, because the Pakistan team refused to play this match at 6 pm. However, the Pakistani team later arrived to play the match.
UAE captain Mohammad Wasim sidelined the delay in the match and concern over the India-Pakistan handshake controversy. He clearly said that his team’s full focus is only on cricket. Wasim said that, we had come for the game, with our plan. Whether the match begins at 6.30 pm or at 7.30, we were ready. This is the job of organizers, not ours.
Regarding mutual relations within the team, he said that there is no Indian or Pakistani for him. Wasim said that we all play and live like a family. We all represent UAE together.