Asia Cup 2025: India Opt to Bowl First vs UAE

Sep 11, 2025 - 19:00

India won the toss and fielded first against the UAE in the second match of the ACC Men’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.

Playing XIs

India: Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah.

UAE: Muhammad Waseem(c), Alishan Sharafu, Muhammad Zohaib, Rahul Chopra(w), Asif Khan, Harshit Kaushik, Haider Ali, Dhruv Parashar, Muhammad Rohid Khan, Junaid Siddique and Simranjeet Singh.

Head-to-head

Only at the 2016 Asia Cup in Mirpur have India and UAE played T20Is.

The former champions won the single match by nine wickets with to solid bowling, Rohit Sharma’s 39 off 28 and Yuvraj Singh’s 14-ball 25.

Matches: 1
India: 1
UAE: 0

Form Guide

The UAE is now on a five-match losing streak, whereas India has only lost one of their last five Twenty20 Internationals. As a result, both teams enter the game with distinct advantages.

In February, the current world champions hosted England for a five-match series and won 4-1 in their most recent encounter in the shortest format.

However, they lost all of their games in the T20I tri-series that the UAE hosted against Pakistan and Afghanistan, which concluded earlier this month.

India: W, W, L, W, W (most recent first)
UAE: L, L, L, L, L