SKY-led India beat the UAE

India made three changes to their playing eleven – Rinku Singh, Mohammed Shami, and Ravi Bishnoi made way for Shubman Gill, Kuldeep Yadav (the player of the match), and Jasprit Bumrah.

The UAE made eleven changes to their playing eleven – Rohan Mustafa, Swapnil Patil, the Mohammads (Shahzad and Naveed), Shaiman Anwar, the Muhammads (Usman and Kaleem), Amjad Javed, Fahad Tariq, Ahmed Raza, and Qadeer Ahmed made way for Alishan Sharafu, the Muhammads [Waseem (the UAE’s skipper), Zohaib, and Rohid], Rahul Chopra, Asif Khan, Harshit Kaushik, Dhruv Parashar, Simranjeet Singh, Haider Ali, and Junaid Siddique.

Suryakumar Yadav, India’s skipper, elected to field.

The first Powerplay of the UAE’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the 10^th over. They scored 41, and lost a couple of wickets.

Sharafu, whose 17-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 22. Twenty-two balls into the match, Jasprit Bumrah broke the 26-run stand.

Zohaib faced five balls, scoring two. Half-a-dozen balls later, he was caught by Kuldeep. Chakravarthy broke the three-(Va)run stand.

Chopra had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored three. Twenty-one balls later, he was caught by Gill. Kuldeep broke the 18-run stand.

Fifty-two balls (8.4 overs) into the match, the UAE sought a batting review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Waseem, the batter, scored 19 off 22 balls, which included three boundaries. It was struck down by Afghan umpire Izatullah Safi. He was trapped leg before wicket by Kuldeep.

The UAE scored 50 off 8.5 overs (53 balls). India had conceded an extra at that point.

Kaushik faced two balls, scoring as many. A couple of balls after Waseem’s dismissal, Kuldeep broke the run-a-ball stand.

Fifty-six balls (9.2 overs) into the match, India sought a bowling review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Asif was the batter. It was struck down by Bangladeshi umpire Gazi Sohel.

Fifty-eight balls (9.4 overs) into the match, the UAE sought a batting review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Parashar was the batter. It was upheld by Sohel.

Ten overs into the match, the drinks break was taken. The UAE had scored 51 for the loss of five wickets at that point. While Asif was batting on a couple, Parashar had not opened his account.

Asif had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored just two. Nine balls after Kaushik’s dismissal, he was caught by Sanju Samson. Shivam Dube broke the one-run stand.

Sixty-eight balls (11.2 overs) into the match, the UAE sought a batting review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Simranjeet, the batter, scored a run off five balls. Using the umpires’ call, it was struck down by Sohel. He was trapped leg before wicket by Axar Patel.

Seventy-three balls (12.1 overs) into the match, the UAE sought a batting review. They challenged the decision for a wicket. Parashar, the batter, scored a run off seven balls. It was struck down by Safi. He was trapped leg before wicket by Dube.

Siddique faced three balls, failing to open his account. Three balls later, he was caught by Suryakumar. Dube broke the one-run stand.

Haider faced two balls, scoring one. Three balls later, he was caught by Samson. Kuldeep broke the two-run stand.

Rohid faced two balls, scored as many. He was unbeaten.

India eventually conceded a couple of extras. The UAE were dismissed for 57 off 13.1 overs.

Hardik Pandya bowled a wicketless over, conceding 10.

Chakravarthy bowled two overs, conceding four. He picked up a wicket, as did Bumrah and Axar, who bowled three overs apiece. While the former conceded 19, the latter conceded 13.

Dube bowled two overs, conceding four. He picked up three wickets.

Kuldeep bowled 2.1 overs, conceding seven. He picked up four scalps.

The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the 10^th over. They scored 60 off 4.3 overs, and lost a wicket.

Abhishek Sharma, whose 16-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and three sixes, scored 30. Twenty-three balls into the match, he was caught by Haider. Siddique broke the 48-run stand.

Gill, whose nine-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, scored 20. He was unbeaten, as was Suryakumar, who had a reason to be in seventh heaven – his two-ball innings included a six.

India scored 50 off four overs (24 balls). The UAE had conceded three extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

India won by nine wickets with 15.3 overs to spare.

Simranjeet bowled three wicketless balls, conceding half-a-dozen.

Rohid, Parashar, and Haider bowled a wicketless over apiece. They conceded 15, 13, and 10, respectively.

Siddique bowled an over, conceding 16. He picked up the only wicket that fell.