{"id":87078,"date":"2025-09-28T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=87078"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:18:25","slug":"asia-cup-final-pakistan-finalizes-squad-saim-likely-to-bat-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/asia-cup-final-pakistan-finalizes-squad-saim-likely-to-bat-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup Final: Pakistan finalizes squad, Saim likely to bat lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The teams of Pakistan and India have been finalized for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/head-coach-instructs-team-to-stay-focused-ahead-of-asia-cup-final\/\">Asia Cup final<\/a> to be held in Dubai today.<\/p>\n<p>The Asia Cup final between Pakistan and India will be played in Dubai this evening, the house will be full to watch the Pakistan-India clash and the fans are expecting an interesting match.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, there is no possibility of Hasan Nawaz returning to the Pakistan team against India in the Asia Cup final, however, Saim Ayub&#8217;s batting order may change.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that Haris Rauf is fully fit for the final against India.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, sources say that the fitness problems in the Indian team are not serious, the tournament&#8217;s top scorer Abhishek Sharma is fully fit while Tilak Verma has also been declared fit for the final.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Jasprit Bumrah and Shivam Dubey are certain to return to the Indian team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The teams of Pakistan and India have been finalized for the Asia Cup final to be held in Dubai today. The Asia Cup final between Pakistan and India will be played in Dubai this evening, the house will be full to watch the Pakistan-India clash and the fans are expecting an interesting match. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":87079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6737,139,138],"class_list":["post-87078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asia-cup-final","tag-india","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87080,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078\/revisions\/87080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}