UAE vs Oman highlights, Asia Cup 2025 T20 Match 7: UAE beat OMA by 42 runs in Abu Dhabi

At no point was Oman in this chase. A few good shots from skipper Jatinder Singh gave a glimpse that Oman could put up a fight here, but it tapered off quite quickly. As per the UAE, they seem to be clearly far more ahead in their progress as an associate compared to Oman. Some of the bowling has been quite professional, and batting, too, has been quite exceptional.

Jawadullah is the new bowler who has come into the attack and has broken the partnership. Bisht gave himself room and tried to whack the ball on the off-side through covers, and the stumps got rattled. The partnership really saved the blushes for Oman, or things could have been a lot worse. This has been a very impressive UAE bowling performance here.

Oman, after winning the toss with the inexperience in their batting, should have batted first; however, they have opted to bowl first, whatever reason they had for it, and when the chase started, they needed to have a solid plan on how they wanted to go about this, but they did look like they had no roles assigned on how they wanted to go about the chase and in no time they have lost five wickets. They are under serious threat of getting bowled out for a really low total here.

Oman is tumbling here. Another wicket has fallen here, Rohid Khan's delivery Mirza hit straight into the hands of the point fielder. It does seem like the result is all but decided in this contest. What a disappointing effort this is turning out to be from Oman. They needed some partnerships, but they kept losing wickets, and most of them are soft wickets.

UAE drew first blood in that opening over. Kaleem tried to hit the ball over mid-off fielder, but was holed out inside the ring. This is not the start Oman was expecting, chasing this total. In fact, Siddique could have had two wickets in that over, but the second opportunity presented was dropped.

That is a decent total by the UAE, but they still have to bowl well and take their chances, as under lights, the ball will skid on nicely. Credit must be given to Sharafu and skipper Waseem for the way they batted and constructed this batting innings. It is a good score, but not something that Oman can chase if they play it sensibly. We will be right back after the short break. Do stay with us.

Waseem has now gone past 3000 runs in his international cricket in the T20 format, and no UAE batter has crossed this mark before. Zohaib, who has walked into the middle, is hitting a few here and is adding misery to the Oman bowlers. They were in a bit of a pickle where the UAE was losing two quick wickets, but this partnership is ensuring they put on a good first innings total

The experiment to send Asif Khan has failed. Leg-spinner Srivasthava has got the breakthrough here. The batter played for the leg-spin; however, the wrong-un came back in and the inside edge went on to hit the stumps. UAE has lost a couple of quick wickets here; it is important that skipper Waseem stays in the middle at least till the 18th-19th over.

Mirza has spilled an opportunity here at deep-midwicket. He misjudged the opportunity and was standing 10 yards inside the boundary line. When the partnership is going the way it is, Oman cannot afford to make errors as such. One thing that has been quite notable with Oman is that though they have many bowling options, few are penetrative enough to pick wickets.

The last couple of overs have gone 27 runs for Oman, that is lovely batting from Waseem and Sharafu. They found it hard to adjust to the pace of the surface; however, once they got adjusted, their proactiveness started to work out as their sweeps and inside-out shots were middled to perfection. It is that flash point where, after pressure builds, either a big one comes or wickets tumble. In this case, the UAE has the better of the bowling side.

We are done with the opening over here. Shakeel took the new ball, and there seems to be a bit of a lack of bounce in the surface. Sharafu and Waseem are quite organised openers, and they would be looking to set a good platform here for the UAE. As per Oman, their primary strength is their spinners, and they will try to trouble the UAE batters with the slowness of the deck this afternoon.

Aamir Kaleem, Jatinder Singh(c), Hammad Mirza, Vinayak Shukla(w), Wasim Ali, Hassnain Shah, Shah Faisal, Aryan Bisht, Shakeel Ahmed, Samay Shrivastava, Jiten Ramanandi

We started well as a batting team, we lose wickets in a cluster which cost us the game. They are a brilliant team and they are bowling very well. They are executing their plans for every batter, that's why they are the No.1 team. As a team we will try to come back stronger and learn from our mistakes.

Jatinder Singh (c), Aamir Kaleem, Hammad Mirza, Vinayak Shukla (wk), Shah Faisal, Hassnain Shah, Mohammad Nadeem, Zikria Islam, Sufyan Mehmood, Shakeel Ahmed, Samay Shrivastava

Hello and welcome to our live blog of the UAE taking on Oman. Although from the tournament perspective, it is a dead rubber, both sides have some talented players in their respective squads, and we might end up seeing them play some cracking cricket through the afternoon. Do stay with us for all the live updates.