{"id":85008,"date":"2025-09-04T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85008"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:31:42","slug":"pak-vs-uae-green-shirts-to-face-host-team-in-sharjah-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-uae-green-shirts-to-face-host-team-in-sharjah-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs UAE: Green Shirts to face host team in Sharjah today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The Pakistan cricket team is set to face the United ARab Emirates (UAE) in the fifth match of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-defeats-afghanistan-by-39-runs-in-tri-series-opener\/\">tri-series<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan are in first and second position, respectively, with four points each in the ongoing tri-series in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricket-grounds\/sharjah-cricket-stadium-59392\">Sharjah.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan needs a mandatory victory today to secure a place in the final. In case of defeat, they will have to rely on the match between Afghanistan and the UAE tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE team will try its luck today in search of its first victory. The UAE will have to win both its matches by a good margin to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the final of the tri-series will be played on September 7.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by 18 runs in the fourth match of the\u00a0tri-nation T20\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan in the match played in\u00a0Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan, playing first, scored 169 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Zadran scored 65 and Siddiqullah scored 64 runs. Faheem Ashraf dismissed 4 players, and Saim Ayub took one wicket for 18 runs in 4 overs.<\/p>\n<p>While chasing the target of 170 runs, the Pakistan team could score 151 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Haris Rauf scored 34, Fakhar Zaman scored 25, Salman Agha scored 20, and Sahibzada Farhan scored 18 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Fazal Haq Farooqi, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, and Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by 39 runs in the first T20 match of the tri-nation series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The Pakistan cricket team is set to face the United ARab Emirates (UAE) in the fifth match of the tri-series today. Pakistan and Afghanistan are in first and second position, respectively, with four points each in the ongoing tri-series in Sharjah. Pakistan needs a mandatory victory today to secure a place in the final. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":85011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30979],"class_list":["post-85008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pak-vs-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85012,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85008\/revisions\/85012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}