Pakistan vs Oman highlights, Asia Cup 2025 T20 Match 4: PAK beat OMA by 93 runs in Dubai

Pakistan vs Oman highlights: Earlier, Salman Agha won the toss and decided Pakistan would bat first. Mohammad Haris' 66(43) has helped Pakistan to put on 160/7 from 20 overs

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Pakistan players in action. (AP photo)

(PAK) vs Oman (OMA) highlights, Asia Cup 2025 T20 Match 4 Updates: All-round bowling performance from Pakistan has rattled Oman as they were bundled out for 67 as Salman Agha’s side beat Jatinder Singh’s by 93 runs to register their first win in the Asia Cup 2025 on Friday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai. Saim Ayub (2/8), Sufiyan Muqeem (2/7), and Faheem Ashraf (2/6) picked up two wickets each.

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Earlier, Salman Agha won the toss and decided Pakistan would bat first. Mohammad Haris’ 66(43) has helped Pakistan to put on 160/7 from 20 overs. Faisal (3/34) and Aamir Khaleem (3/31) have been the pick of the Oman bowlers.

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With the result, Pakistan has reached the second spot on the points table behind India based on Net Run Rate. The former will take on the latter on Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.

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Asia Cup 2025: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Pakistan’s fallen star is shining again

For all his verbal bluster and renaissance, Afridi indeed, had endured a torrid last three years, precisely since he limped off in the final of the 2022 World Cup. (PTI)

There is nothing like an angry fast bowler. Shaheen Shah Afridi was an angry fast bowler during the press conference after the last PSL final. He was the victorious captain, yet he was angered by the constant pestering about his upturn in form. When a journalist asked him about it, he replied, palpably irritated: “Ramiz Raja too asked me at the toss about my form, and I told him the same thing: I am still the same Shaheen; I have neither changed nor will I.” A sharp one-liner, like the swipe of a knife, was to come: “You need to have eyes to see it but.”

For all his verbal bluster and renaissance, Afridi indeed, had endured a torrid last three years, precisely since he limped off in the final of the 2022 World Cup. He was flickered sporadically, offered fleeting signs of reclaiming his destructible peak. But he was never the same–the leap lost its zing, the action lost its smoothness and energy, the snap of the wrists was forced, the ball lost its swerve and nip. It was not Afridi. It was an imposter. A lookalike. It occurs to bowlers returning from injuries. Self-doubts creep in. Many fast bowlers, for all their outward alpha-male vibes, have been historically fragile in the mind. They need a bit of pampering, love and a sense of importance. Afridi, perceptibly, was feeling unloved, unappreciated and unwanted. It seeme

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