India started their Asia Cup journey with a flying victory against UAE in Dubai by 9 wickets and 93 balls remaining. Suryakumar Yadav Indian skipper won the toss, this was the 1st toss victory for India after 15 losses, decided to bowl first.
UAE started their innings very maturely and at a time they were 47/2 and about to post a respectable total against India but they bottled their last 8 wickets within 10 runs and bowled out for 57 runs in just 13.1 Overs.
They started well and their opener Alishan Sharafu (22) and skipper Muhammad Waseem (19) gave a solid start after that their batters unable to convert their score in two digits.
Jasprit Bumrah cleaned their top scorer Sharafu for 22 and Kuldeep Yadav picked their skipper for 19 runs. Kuldeep Yadav picked 4 wickets in his spell and won the Player of the Match after 7 long years, last he won against West Indies back in 2018.
Shivam Dube, who is grooming by the management and shown a great faith in him as an all rounder picked 3 wickets and supported Kuldeep Yadav in their job.
India chase down the target in just 4.3 overs with Abhishek Sharma fiery knock of 30 in 16 balls and rest was done by Vice Captain Shubman Gill and Skipper Suryakumar Yadav.
India will now play their next match of tournament against their biggest rivalry Pakistan on Sunday 14th September likely to become blockbuster thriller.