Shivam Dube stuns with 2 wickets in one over during IND vs UAE Asia Cup 2025

Indian bowlers dominated in their first game of the Asia Cup 2025, where they are facing the hosts United Arab Emirates (UAE) at Dubai on Wednesday (September 10) and bundled out the hosts for only 57 runs. While all the Indian bowlers impressed in the second game of the Asia Cup 2025, Shivam Dube stunned with his three wickets, as he picked up two wickets in an over. 

India started the Asia Cup 2025 journey without their leading T20I wicket-taker Arshdeep Singh, who is one wicket away from becoming the first Indian bowler to record 100 T20I wickets. The Men in Blues have started their T20 Asia Cup journey with two pace-bowling all-rounders (Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube) and one spin-bowling all-rounder (Axar Patel), along with one front-line pacer (Jasprit Bumrah) and two front-line spinners (Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy).

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Asia Cup 2025, India vs UAE (Group A): UAE recorded 2nd lowest completed total in T20 Asia Cup history

After choosing to bowl first, India bundled out the hosts UAE for only 57 runs in 13.1 overs, as it was the second-lowest completed total in the T20 Asia Cup history, after Hong Kong's 38 all out against Pakistan in the 2022 edition. Only the UAE openers Alishan Sharafu (22) and skipper Muhammad Waseem (19) managed to reach double-digit scores in the innings.

The Men in Blues utilised six bowlers in the innings, while five bowlers picked up at least one wicket, and only Hardik Pandya didn't take a wicket in his one-over spell in the match. Among the Indian bowlers, Kuldeep Yadav (4/7) and Shivam Dube (3/4) recorded multiple wickets in the match, while Jasprit Bumrah (1/19), Axar Patel (1/13), and Varun Chakravarthy (1/4) got one wicket each.

Asia Cup 2025, India vs UAE (Group A): Shivam Dube recorded his best T20 bowling

Although the 32-year-old Shivam Dube is known as a genuine all-rounder as a useful left-handed batter and effective right-arm medium pacer, he isn't a regular bowler at present. Before this match, Dube recorded 13 wickets in 35 T20I matches. However, he delivered two useful overs against the UAE in their tournament opener, as the right-arm medium pacer had the bowling figures of 2-0-4-3. These are the best bowling figures for Dube in his T20 career. 

Dube delivered his first over of the match in the 11th over of the innings, where he dismissed Asif Khan, as the wicketkeeper Sanju Samson took a great diving catch behind the wicket. In his next over, Dube took two wickets despite the Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav withdrawing one stumping dismissal. On the first delivery of his second over of the match, Dube successfully trapped Dhruv Parashar for an lbw, while Junaid Siddique's legal and shocking stumping dismissal on the third ball of that over was ultimately withdrawn by the Indian skipper. However, after a wide delivery, Siddique (0) lost his wicket as Dube got his second wicket of the over.