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. Pakistan vs UAE Match Analysis 2025: Saim Ayub and Hassan’s brilliant fifties turned the game into a thriller! Read full breakdown, key moments, stats, and expert opinion that you won’t find anywhere else.”

Pakistan 207 all out (Ayub 69, Hasan Nawaz 56, Saghir 3-44) beat UAE 176 for 8 (Asif 77, Waseem 33, Hasan Ali 3-47) by 31 runs 

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Sam Ayub and Hassan Nawaz opened a very good innings due to which UAE had to lose. Pakistan achieved its second victory after a long time. UAE lost by 31 runs on their home ground. Half-centuries by Sam Ayub and Hassan Nawaz laid the foundation for a big score because the top order around them would play a fast innings to maintain the momentum of Pakistan’s first innings.  In the end, Faheem Ashraf and Hasan Ali opened a memorable innings and took Pakistan’s total to 207, which is Pakistan’s third T20 total. UAE’s hopes of victory rested on their captain Mohammad Wasim’s performance in the powerplay. He batted briskly in the opening innings and scored 33 runs to give his team hope. But his best spell ended very soon because he was dismissed in a terrible confusion at the end of the first six overs.

Another wicket fall on the very next ball and the innings would slowly end. Because Sam and Nawaz put pressure on the home team, the match had become one-sided long before. UAE’s lower middle-order power hitter Asif Khan looked very dangerous in his innings, scoring 77 runs off 35 balls, but it was too late.

    “Sam showed off his power hitting after being set and started raining boundaries.”

This innings of Saim was close to the innings for which Saim is known. Because this was his memorable innings after a year of injury. All this happened after 22 runs where he hit Junaid Siddiqui for 2 sixes and a four. Boundaries continued to appear in the power play, but even after the power play ended, the series of boundaries continued, as if even the left-handed Muhammad Jawadullah fast bowlers were not spared.

Ayub hit him for another four and a six and then did the same thing on the first 2 balls of the next over and made his half-century off 25 balls. Ayub’s fellow batsmen did not benefit from the batting, but Ayub played a brilliant innings of 69 runs off 38 balls and his wicket fell on a decision, while there is no DRS in this series. Due to Ayub’s innings, Pakistan’s run rate remained above 9.

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Hassan Nawaz took over the momentum that Ayub had lost and proved to be a good batsman.Hassan Nawaz’s brilliant batting came to a head when he targeted UAE’s Spain bowler Hadir Ali. By then, Haider Ali’s bowling figures were 12 runs in just 3 overs. But Hassan Nawaz turned the tables and turned the innings. Hassan Nawaz scored 18 runs in the first 3 balls of the last overs and then misplayed a shot and was out, ending a brilliant innings in which he scored 56 runs off only 26 balls.

But still, Pakistan was in a critical situation. They had just lost their sixth wicket for 163 runs and had 26 balls remaining. Coach Mike Hassan has made it clear that he wants to have more batters in the team so that every possible run can be scored. Even if that means not getting the specialist bowler out, he should go for it. Meanwhile, Muhammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf and Hassan scored 25, 16 and 9 runs respectively . 44 runs were scored in the last 4 overs and this took Pakistan beyond 200. This strengthened Pakistan’s position so that even if UAE showed a good performance in batting, Pakistan could still be safe.

“Asif Khan Strikes Back: Brutal Counterattack Shifts Momentum”

Asif Khan is the only UAE batsman whose strike rate is higher than that of his captain Mohammad Wasim. He has shown how Pakistan’s bowlers are washed away. The match was over at that point and it feels cruel that such an innings should not have been a waste. Pakistan’s bowlers, whether fast or spin, repeatedly threw balls into the path of Asif’s shorts, which reduced Asif Khan’s intensity. But it is true that Asif Khan beat the bowlers effectively.

In the opening over, he scored only 11 runs off the first 12 balls. But in the 14th over, after hitting Safiam Muqeem with a six and a four, he started batting with a bang. Hasan Ali, who was struggling with the ball that day, bowled in the slot and scored another 19 runs.  After that, there was no stopping the series of short overs, with Muqeem scoring 17 runs and Salman Mirza give scoring another 18.

Despite Asif Khan’s great batting, he could not help his team win. Because even when Asif Khan was at his best, UAE needed 122 runs in 7 overs to win, which was almost impossible. Although UAE lost the match, the difference of this six was less than Afghanistan. Thus, UAE’s net run rate will be better than Afghanistan. On Friday, when Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by a large margin, UAE lost by a small margin. When Hasan Ali returned in the last over and dismissed Asif Ali on a bouncer, a faint smile appeared on Asif’s face. Asif Khan was satisfied with his innings, whatever the result. Asif Khan scored 66 runs off his last 26 balls, meaning he played a very fast innings. Even if his team lost, he would feel proud of his batting.