India started their Asia Cup campaign with a historical victory after Kuldeep Yadav and Shivam Dube de Vae kept the VAE their most humiliating collapse in the history of Cricket: 8 wickets for only 10 runs on the board.
The long -awaited Asia Cup 2025 has started with India who takes on the VAE in the second game of the season. The Indian skipper broke the Toss Jinx and chose to bowl on the Dubai track. This is the same land where India won an ICC tournament for six months in February 2025.
Under the leadership of Suryakumar Yadav and the return of Jasprit Bumrah, India watched and dressed to make a promising start to their campaign.
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Vae lost 8 wickets within 10 points; Historical collapse disappoints hosts
The first massacre started with Bumrah’s Yorker who took the trick in the fourth of the game, while Chakravarthy followed with another wicket within the powerplay. Kuldeep Yadav, however, was the showman for India.
Kuldeep runs a rampage through the innings of the VAE, while he rejects three batters in his second from the spell. KuldeeP was seen at his very first after making his long-awaited T20i-backkeer for India.
Kuldeep Yadav stood in a row with Wickets, cleans the middle order, while Shivam Dube, the third seater in the side because of the absence of Arshdep Singh, was then handed over the ball in the 10th of the game.
Dube threw a real outswinger that took the edge of the batter, and Samson caught it sharp behind the stumps. With Kuldeep’s 4/7 and Dube’s 3/4, the VAE lost their 8 wickets in no time and collapsed within 8 overs after the powerplay.
57-all-out: the new lowest T20i Totaal against India
The VAE excluded for only 57 points, the VAE set an undesirable record of the lowest team total ever against India in an international T20 match. They have now surpassed the kiwis, who previously held the record with 66 runs in 2023.
Here is a list of the lowest T20i scores against India:
1. 57 – VAE vs Ind, Dubai, 2025
2. 66 – NZ vs Ind, Ahmedabad 2023
3. 70 – IRE vs Ind, Dublin, 2018
4. 80 – Eng vs Ind, Colombo 2012
5. 82 – SL vs IND, VIZAG 2016
Kuldeep Yadav called the player of the game when India started the Asia Cup campaign with a 9-wicket victory
As the Indian showman and the real cheater behind the disastrous collapse on the part of the VAE, Kuldeep Yadav was called the player of the game for his stunning show with the white ball.
Abhishek Sharma, the stunning show of Kuldeep Yadav aside and scored a QuickFire 30, while Shubman Gill inched a 20* and finished the game next to the skipper, who was at 7*. India ended their pursuit with 93 balls and 9 more wickets left. It was also the biggest victory of India in terms of balls that remained in the history of T20i Cricket.
Biggest victory due to balls that remain in T20Is:
(Under full member)
101 Balls – Eng vs Oma, North Sound 2024
93 Balls – IND vs van, Dubai 2025
90 Balls – SL vs Ned, Chattogram 2014
90 Balls – Zim vs Moz, Nairobi 2024
88 Balls – NZ vs Eng, Tarouba 2024
India has a 2-point lead with a net run rate of +10.480 before they play Pakistan at this location on September 14, Sunday.
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