India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final LIVE: India defeats Pakistan by 5 wickets to lift Asia Cup

India defeats Pakistan by 5 wickets to lift Asia Cup.

India needs 10 runs to win in the last over.

After 15.2 overs, India at 108/4 against Pakistan.

Tilak leads with a half-century from 41 balls, scoring three 4’s and three 6’s throughout the match!

Tilak take India to their first century with smashing six. India at 109/4 in 15.3 overs.

Abrar bowls Samson out as he looks to go over cover but the ball gets caught by Farhan.

India scores 78/4 in 13 overs.

Samson was almost sent back to the stands as he tried sending the ball toward the boundary. However, Talat drops the ball.

India has scored 54/3 at the end of 9 overs.

Tilak strikes and sends the ball flying over the boundary for a six. After 6 overs, India scored 36/3

Rauf jumps in the air to catch out Gill. Samson take his place on the field

Pakistan takes 3 wickets in four overs. India score 20/3.

Shaheen take Suryakumar out early on into the game, as Salman dives forward to catch him out.

India at 10/2 at 2.3 overs.

At the first ball of the 2nd over, Faheem gets Sharma out as Rauf catches him out.

Suryakumar Yadav takes the field, India at 7/1 after 1.2 overs

The second innings begins as Gill and Sharma take the field. Sharma starts it off with fourIndia needs 147 runs to win.

Nawaz attempts to lead the ball to the boundary, however, it falls into Rinku’s hands.

Pakistan all out for 146.

Bumrah strikes and bowls Raf out on the off stump.

Pakistan at 141/9 at 17.5 overs.

After a dot ball, Faheem gets taken out by Kuldeep as the ball falls straight into Tilak’s hands.

Shaheen is stopped in his tracks with a Leg-By-Wicket. Pakistan now, seven wickets down having scored 134 after 16.4 overs.

Faheem Ashraf takes the field.

Salman stopped in his tracks as Yadav balls him out and Samson leaps to catch him out. Pakistan at 133/6 after 16.1 overs

Axar stops Hussain after scoring 2 runs. Pakistan at 131/5

As Fakhar goes to smash another boundary, Chakravarthy stops him in his tracks by taking him out. Pakistan at 126/4

Fakhar shoots for the boundary and blasts an outstanding six, taking Pakistan to 126/3 at 14.3 overs

Haris replaces Saim but gets out by Axar Patel, caught by Rinku Singh.

At 14 overs, Pakistan is at 118/3

Kuldeep bowls Saim out as Bumrah bends and catches the ball.

Pakistan at 113/2 after 13 overs

Saim Ayub and Fakhar Zaman lead Pakistan to 107/1 at the end of the 12th over

Varun Chakravarthy gives India the much needed break. Farhan departs after 57 off 38 balls. Pakistan at 84/1 after 9.4 overs.

Farhan gets his fifth T20 fifty and his second against India.

With Bumrah bowling the fourth over, Fakhar begins by scoring a four on the first ball. Farhan follows suit with a six over the boundary on the third ball.

At the end of three overs, Pakistan scores 19-0.

Sahibzada Farhan scores Pakistan’s first boundary in the fifth ball of the fourth over.

Fakhar Zaman and Sahibzada Farhan step on to the field to beign the first over of Asia Cup 2025 final between India and Pakistan.

Shivam Dube bowls the first over.

PAKISTAN XI: Salman Agha (Capt.), Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Haris (wk), Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Faheem Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Nawaz, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi.

INDIA XI: Suryakumar Yadav (Capt.), Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), and Rinku Singh.

India all-rounder Hardik Pandya will miss the final. Rinku Singh and Shivam Dube came in for Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh.

- PTI

India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya stands on the verge of scripting history in the final of the ongoing Asia Cup against Pakistan.

Pandya is just two scalps away from completing 100 T20 international wickets. By achieving this feat, Pandya will become only the second Indian bowler to grab 100 wickets in T20Is.

Currently, he has 98 wickets, behind star pacer Arshdeep Singh with 101 scalps to his name. Pandya took 120 fixtures for grabbing 98 wickets at an average of 26.58 and an economy of 8.22 with best figures of 4/16.

- ANI

India skipper Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and opted to bowl against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final in Dubai on Sunday.

Ravi Shastri and Waqar Younis conducted the toss interviews with the India and Pakistan captains separately after PCB’s request to Asian Cricket Council to keep a neutral presenter for the title clash.

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Unlike Sharjah, the once spiritual home of cricket in the desert nation where Indo-Pak contests often carried the baggage of geopolitics, the Dubai International Cricket Stadium (DICS) is a different beast altogether — a sprawling, modern piece of architecture pinned to one end of the city, slightly away from the buzz of the central business district.

And yet, on Sunday evening, the stadium and its neighbourhood morphed into a carnival ground. Hours before the 6:30 p.m. start in Dubai, Indian and Pakistani fans made a beeline, soaking in the atmosphere with song, banter and cheer.

“Du rupaiyee ka chewing gum, Surya bhau Singham,” shouted a group of fans from Maharashtra, breaking into Bollywood-style slogans.

Elsewhere, chants of “Pakistan Zindabad” reverberated through the streets of Sports City, adding their own echo to the afternoon buzz in sultry conditions.

- PTI

Ahead of the final against Pakistan on Sunday, India bowling coach Morne Morkel acknowledged that the team is yet to tick all boxes in this campaign. “I don’t think we’ve played the complete game in this tournament so far. After every match, there have been discussions on areas we would like to improve and get better at,” Morkel told reporters on Friday night. “In all departments, work needs to be done. We’re by no means the finished article and we know that.”

“The more we can find ourselves in sticky situations and execute well and take the learning from that, that’s how this group is going to grow,” Morkel reflected. “So, yes, sometimes it is frustrating from the side if we don’t get it all together, but there’s a bigger picture in mind.”

With just a day’s break before the final, Morkel underlined the importance of the bowlers receiving sufficient rest. “The best way to recover is to sleep and stay off your feet. It is about getting massages and getting mentally ready for a big battle on Sunday. It’s a quick turnaround,” he said.

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India and Pakistan will play each other in an Asia Cup final for the first time, on September 28. The teams played each other twice in the tournament, with India winning both easily.

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India vs Pakistan Asia Cup Final: A Look Back at Historic Tournament Final Clashes

India and Pakistan face off in their first-ever Asia Cup final on September 28. Ahead of the high-stakes match, we revisit their past encounters in limited-overs tournament finals featuring five or more teams. From iconic wins to fierce rivalries, here’s a look back at their head-to-head record in multination tournament finals.

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In the long history of mercurial performances that Pakistan’s cricket team has revelled in, the victory against Bangladesh by 11 runs in the Asia Cup on Thursday was the latest iteration. Anxiety bubbled in what was a virtual semifinal after another diabolically dysfunctional display from the batting unit, but the bowlers, spurred by Shaheen Afridi’s fire-breathing spell of 4-0-17-3, rose in unison to deliver a rousing win.

“We were far from perfect, we realised that in the first 10 overs. But there’s a huge amount of character in this group,” Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson reflected in the post-match press conference.

“The way we played against India in the last match was a huge step-up from the first game. It took an exceptional innings from Abhishek Sharma to take the game away from us. Outside of that, we were pretty good. We have to be good enough to be able to put India under pressure for long enough. We have to do it for longer because India is rated the top side in the world. You have to put them under pressure,” the Kiwi observed.

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In light of the strained diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan, aggravated by the cross-border conflict in May in the wake of a terror attack in Pahalgam, the 17th edition of the Asia Cup has witnessed one flashpoint after another. Now with a title on the line, the neighbours will meet for the third time in this year’s continental showpiece at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

As the head-to-head record testifies, India has marched ahead in the past two decades. In 15 T20Is between these teams since the first in 2007, the current T20 World Cup champion has won 12. It has also emerged victorious in each of their last seven white-ball meetings. Pakistan, on the other hand, would prefer to emphasise on a 8-4 record in finals of white-ball tournaments.

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