Asia cup 2025, India vs Pakistan live updates: The final match of Asia Cup 2025 is being played between India and Pakistan at Dubai International Cricket Stadium today. India won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Pakistan’s team was reduced to the score of 146. Bumrah-Akshar and Varun got 2-2 wickets. Kuldeep took 4 wickets. Farhan scored the most runs for Pakistan. India’s score chasing the target is 25-3 after 5 overs.
This is the first time in the 41-year history of this tournament when the teams of India and Pakistan are face to face in the final match. India has been an unstoppable journey in the Asia Cup so far. Team India has made it to the finals by winning 6 consecutive matches. At the same time, Pakistan has lost two matches. Both times India has dusted Pakistan. ITo know the live scorecard of the match, keep refreshing this page continuously.
India started poorly while chasing the target. He lost the wicket of Infor batter Abhishek Sharma (5 runs) in the second over. Abhishek was caught by Faheem Ashraf at the hands of Haris Rauf. Captain Suryakumar Yadav’s poor form continued and he became a victim of Shaheen Afridi on a personal score of 1 runs. Gill also lost his wicket on the last ball of the fourth over. Gill scored 12 runs from the bat.
India’s wicket collapse: 7-1 (Abhishek Sharma, 1.1), 10-2 (Suryakumar Yadav, 2.3), 20-3 (Shubman Gill, 3.6)
Pakistan’s batting is going on
Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman started the innings from Pakistan. Both of them started batting carefully. The first over was done by Shivam Dubey and spent only 4 runs. Pakistan scored 45 runs in the powerplay. However, Pakistan did not lose any wicket. Farhan hit fifty in only 35 balls. But in the 10th over, Varun took Farhan’s wicket. Farhan played a brilliant innings of 57 runs in 38 balls. After this, Kuldeep Yadav took the wicket of Sam Ayub in the 13th over. Ayub came with 14 runs. After this, Akshar Patel took the wicket of Mohammad Haris in the 14th over. Haris could not open an account. Pakistan suffered a fourth shock in the 15th over when Varun dismissed Fakhar. Fakhar came with 46 runs. After this, Akshar Patley took the wicket of Hussain Talat in the 16th over.
After this, Pakistan’s innings collapsed. In the next over, Kuldeep took the wicket of captain Salman Aga. In this over, Kuldeep also settled Shaheen. Shaheen could not even open an account. In this over, Kuldeep also took the wicket of Faheem. That is, Kuldeep took three wickets in this over. After this, Bumrah’s havoc showed and Pakistan’s innings was reduced to 146. Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets. Varun-Bumrah and Akshar got 2-2 wickets.
Pakistan’s wicket collapse: 84-1 (Sahibzada Farhan, 9.4 overs), 113-2 (Sam Ayub, 12.5 over), 114-3 (Mohammad Haris, 13.3 overs), 126-4 (Fakhar Jaman, 14.4 over), 131-5 (Hussain Talat, 15.3 overs), 133-6 (Salman Aga, 16.1 over), 134-7 (16.1 over), 134-8 (Faheem Ashraf, 16.6 overs), 141-9 (Haris Rauf, 17.5 over), 146-10 (Mohammad Nawaz, 19.1 over).
Hardik Pandya Playing out of 11
Before this match, Team India got a big shock. Hardik Pandya is not playing in this match. Rinku Singh has got a chance in his place. Please tell that Hardik was injured in the last match. He went out of the field after bowling an over. Since then there was suspense on playing his final. At the same time, Arshdeep and Harshit Rana, who played in the last match, have also been out. Shivam Dubey and Bumrah have returned to him. Pakistan has landed in this match without any change.
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India (playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty.
Pakistan (playing XI): Sahibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Sam Ayub, Salman Aga (captain), Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed.
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How is India’s record against Pak in the final?
In the Multi Nations Tournament (5 or more teams), India and Pakistan have so far have 5 finals. During this time the Pakistani team won 3 matches, while India won 2 matches. Now India would like to do this score 3-3. If India wins the Asia Cup, then the necklace in the last final against Pakistan (Champions Trophy 2017) will also be reduced.
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