Asia Cup United Arab Emirates Team

LAHORE: United Arab Emirates have named their 15-member squads for the Asia Cup in Pakistan, which gets underway next month. Saqib Ali will lead the UAE side, who are coming off a disappointing campaign in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, managing just one win in seven matches. Saqib was the only one to play all seven games, and he was the team’s leading run-getter, with 690 runs at an average of 57.50. With 17 wickets each, medium-pacer Arshad Ali and left-arm spinner Khurram Khan were the top wicket-takers for the team, and will lead the attack in Pakistan. UAE are in Group A along with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Hong Kong are grouped alongside India and Pakistan, and they didn’t have much success during a ten-day tour of Pakistan earlier this month, losing four of their five matches. Tabarak Dar, their captain and opener, scored an unbeaten century in the loss to Sheikhupura, and finished the tour as the top run-getter. Off-spinner Nadeem Ahmed was the leading wicket-taker, with eight scalps in four games.

UAE squad : Saqib Ali (captain), Fahad Alhashmi, Alawi Shukri, Aman Ali, Amjad Ali (wk), Amjad Javed, Arshad Ali, Indika Batuwitarachchi, Nizel Fernandes, Khurram Khan, Mohammad Tauqir, Salman Farooq, Shadeep Silva, Vikrant Shetty, Zahid Shah.