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Hello and welcome everyone to the LIVE coverage of the Pakistan vs UAE T20I match at the Sharjah Stadium. This is the 5th match of the T20I tri-series between Pakistan, UAE and Afghanistan before we head onto the Asia Cup 2025, starting from 9 September.
Pakistan are currently leading the points table with 4 points in three games, while the UAE are yet to win any match in the series. So, more or less, it is quite evident that Pakistan and Afghanistan will play in the final, despite the results of this match.
This is Koushik Biswas with all the LIVE updates of the match. Enjoy the coverage.
Haider Ali, the left-arm spinner is brought into the attack.
Zaman took a single in the first ball but Haris struggled against the outgoing delieveries as he could not rotate the strike in the next three balls.
In desperation Haris went for a reverse sweep and nearly gave away a catch at backward point.
Haris' long struggle came to an end when he went for a sweep and missed the ball compeltely to get adjudged LBW.
Excellent over from Haider Ali. One and a wicket from the 10th over.
Parashar comes back into the attack and gives Zaman the room to slice the first ball for a bounadary. A missed field helped him though in that ocassion.
Parashar went for the wide line again and Zaman could only take a single in the next ball.
Haris could not judge the lenght of the next two ball as could only get a single in the fifth ball of the over.
Zaman then rotated the strike to keep the strike to himself.
Only seven from Parashar's second over, who had gone for 16 in his first.
Now this is good from UAE. Rohid now is bowing his fourth and final over of the match.
He has been able to get the swing and nearly got the edge of Zaman's bat in the first two balls. The third ball nearly produced a run out chance.
Haris the swung hard to flick Rohid over the square leg for a big six to get his innings going. He then rotated the strike before Zaman kept the strike to him for the next over.
Rohid finished his spell with 4-21-1.
Jawadullah, the other left-arm pacer comes into the attack for UAE.
Zaman slapped him just for a one in the first ball while Haris pulled the second ball for a double.
He then played and missed the third ball but made up for it with a boundary in the next ball. Don't know why Jawadullah went for a bouncer in that delivery.
The next ball he pitched it a bit up and Haris could only swing his and miss the ball compeletely.
Haris went for another pull and played it straight to short mid-wicket for a dot ball.
Seven came from Jawadullah's first over.
Rohid continued his great line but unfortutantely there was no slip fielder to take the edge of Agha's bat in the second ball, which went for a boundary.
Agha then tried to come at him but Rohid angled it away from him as he left the ball.
But in the fourth ball of the over, Rohid was able to get the edge again with an away swinger and it bounced a bit high as well to give away an easy catch to Rahul.
Agha went for only five and Pakistan lost their third. Mohammad Haris replaced him at the crease, who played two dot balls to end the over and powerplay.
Five and a wicket from Rohid's third over.
Ayub was having some trouble playing in the offside and UAE's tactics to bring Siddique worked as he prodcued the edge from Ayub's bat.
Salman Agha replaced Ayub in the middle for Pakistan.
Agha got off to strike with a double and a single in the next two balls of the over while Zaman went for a big drive and miss-timed it.
However, Zaman made sure he flat bat Siddique for a big six over long on to make the powerplay count. He then flicked one for a single to finish the over.
Ten and a wicket from the over.
Rohid conitunes from the other end.
Fakhar Zaman played a dot ball to start and then played a beautiful backfoot punch to get a boundary through the covers.
In the third ball he rotated the strike and Ayub again found it hard to nullify the swing and shape from Rohid, who kept on bowling outswingers from perfect legth.
A miss field in the final ball allowed Ayub to keep the strike.
Six came from Rohid's second over.
UAE bring Dhruv Parashar into the attack, and straightaway he goes for runs.
Ayub went down on his knee and slog him over deep midwicket for a six and then played a square cut to get a triple in the next ball.
After a dot ball, Parashar again dragged it short and Farhan pulled him over long on for the second six of the over. But the change actually worked for UAE as Farhan pulled the next ball straight to the deep mid-wicket for an easy catch.
He went back to the pavilion after adding 16 off 11 balls. Fakhar Zaman replaced him at number three.
Muhammad Rohid, the left-arm pacer started well with the new ball from the other end.
Saim Ayub found it difficult to negate the swing and length of Rohid as he played and missed the first three balls of the over.
Rohid was able to move the ball away from Ayub and the outwinsger forced Ayub to come on fifth stump and drive the ball for a single.
Farhan also played a dot ball and missed the last ball as Rohid appealed for a LBW, which was denied by the umpire.
Muhammad Rohid, the left-arm pacer started well with the new ball from the other end.
Saim Ayub found it difficult to negate the swing and length of Rohid as he played and missed the first three balls of the over.
Rohid was able to move the ball away from Ayub and the outwinsger forced Ayub to come on fifth stump and drive the ball for a single.
Farhan also played a dot ball and missed the last ball as Rohid appealed for a LBW, which was denied by the umpire.
Junaid Siddique start with the new ball for the hosts UAE.
After a dot ball, he conceded a wide and gave room outside the off-stump and allowed Sahibzada Farhan to throw his bat at it and get a boundary.
Farhan then left the third ball and then pulled the fourth one for a four to get the second boundary of the match.
Another wide in the next ball meant Pakistan would be crossing 10 in the first over. The fifth one was another short-ish delivery, and Farhan defended it on the back foot before he punched the final ball of the over for a double.
Muhammad Waseem (c), Asif Khan, Alishan Sharafu, Rahul Chopra (wk), Ethan D'Souza, Harshit Kaushik, Shruv Parashar, Haider Ali, Muhammad Jawad, Muhammad Rohid, Junaid Siddique
Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Fakhar Zaman, Salman Ali Agha (c), Hasan Nawaz, Muhammad Nawaz, Mohammad Haris (wk), Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Salman Mirza, Abrar Ahmed
Pakistan have won the toss and opted to bat first
Match: Pakistan vs UAE, 5th match, Tri-series
Date: 4 September,
Time: 8.30 pm IST,
Venue: Sarjah