UAE announced Squad for Asia Cup 2025, Muhammad Waseem will be the captain

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UAE announced Squad for Asia Cup 2025: Asia Cup 2025 is starting from 9 September. For this, the UAE team was announced on Thursday. The command of this 17-member team has been handed over to the brilliant opener Muhammad Waseem. UAE has been placed in Group A. The other three teams in this group are India, Oman and Pakistan.

The UAE team will play its first match against India on Wednesday, 10 September at the Dubai International Stadium. The team will clash with Oman on Monday, 15 September at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. The UAE team will play their last group match against Pakistan on Wednesday, 17 September at the Dubai International Stadium.

There will be a title battle between 8 teams in the Asia Cup. All the teams have been divided into 2 groups of 4 each. The top two teams from each group will advance to the Super Four stage, which will begin on Sunday, September 21.

UAE squad for Asia Cup 2025

1. Muhammad Waseem (c)
2. Alishan Sharafu
3. Aryansh Sharma
4. Asif Khan
5. Dhruv Parashar
6. Ethan D' Souza
7. Haider Ali
8. Harshit Kaushik
9. Junaid Siddique
10. Matiullah Khan
11. Muhammad Farooq
12. Muhammad Jawadullah
13. Muhammad Zohaib
14. Rahul Chopra
15. Rohid Khan
16. Simranjeet Singh
17. Saghir Khan.

Muhammad Waseem will be the captain

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Muhammad Waseem has been made the captain of UAE, who is one of the best batsmen not only in UAE but in the entire Gulf. This right-handed opener has recently become the captain to hit the most sixes in T20. Muhammad Waseem broke Rohit Sharma's record. Muhammad Waseem was born in Balochistan, Pakistan but he came to UAE in the year 2017. Here he started playing club cricket while working as a salesman and soon he became one of the top players of the country.

Muhammad Waseem Cricket Career: This 31-year-old player has scored 2859 runs in 80 T20 matches for UAE at an average of more than 38. Wasim has scored 3 centuries in T20 International. His strike rate is also more than 150. This player has done the feat of scoring a half-century in just 12 balls in the T10 tournament. The amazing thing is that Mohammad Wasim has played tape ball cricket in the streets and with the same technique he hits sixes in international cricket as well. Now it remains to be seen what this player does in the Asia Cup. By the way, his form is amazing at the moment. He has played a brilliant innings of 33 runs against Pakistan and 67 runs against Afghanistan in the tri-series.

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