The final of the Asia Cup 2025 is being played between India and Pakistan in Dubai. Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and chose bowling first. Shivam Dubey put the first over for India, he gave just 4 runs and beat the batsman several times. After this Jasprit Bumrah came, he also harassed Sahibzada Farhan in many balls but the batsman also made some good shots. In the powerplay, Pakistan scored 45 runs without losing wickets. For the fourth time in history against India, Pakistan did not lose any wicket in the powerplay.

In the powerplay, Sahibzada Farhan scored 31 and Fakhar Zaman scored 12 runs, later Sahibzada completed his half -century. He has been seen brilliant in this tournament, in the final he scored 57 runs in 38 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 5 fours. He was caught out by Varun Chakraborty.

This happened for the fourth time in history

Prior to the Asia Cup 2025 final match, 15 T20 matches were played between India and Pakistan, it happened only 3 times when the Indian bowlers could not take wickets in the powerplay. The last time this happened in 2021, that match was also played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. It was a T20 World Cup match, in which India scored 151 runs while batting first and Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam won Pakistan by 10 wickets by playing an unbeaten innings.

How many overs did in the powerplay?

Talking about the final of Asia Cup 2025, Shivam Dubey and Jaspreet Bumrah bowled 2-2 overs in the powerplay. Although Dubey was quite economical, he gave 12 runs in 2 overs. Bumrah conceded 18 runs in 2 overs. The 5th over was done by Varun Charkarti, it scored only 5 runs. The last over of the powerplay was put by Akshar Patel, it came to 8 runs.

For the first time, India and Pakistan are playing the final against each other in the Asia Cup. Earlier, Team India has won the Asia Cup title 8 times, Pakistan has become the champion 2 times.