{"id":167343,"date":"2025-09-25T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167343\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:25:09","slug":"shaheen-declares-pakistan-ready-to-win-asia-cup-as-india-await-in-final-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167343\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen declares Pakistan \u2018ready\u2019 to win Asia Cup as India await in final | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Pakistan face Bangladesh on Thursday in an eliminator ahead of Sunday\u2019s final of the 2025 Asia Cup, where India await.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/kevin-hand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20210627_155635971-1-1696493612.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan pace bowler and former captain Shaheen Shah Afridi says his team are ready to give a \u201ccomplete effort\u201d to lift the 2025 Asia Cup with a potentially mouth-watering rematch against India in prospect in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan survived a wobble against Sri Lanka in their second match at the Super Fours stage to keep alive their campaign with a five-wicket win in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>India, who face Sri Lanka on Friday in their final Super Fours match, beat Bangladesh by 41 runs in Dubai on Wednesday to secure their place in the final with a game to spare in the current stage.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Bangladesh will now compete in what is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2025\/9\/24\/which-teams-can-still-qualify-for-the-asia-cup-2025-final-and-how\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">effectively an eliminator<\/a> on Thursday ahead of the final.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan have met twice in this edition of the regional competition, but the neighbours have never played against each other in an Asia Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The regional tournament, played this time in the United Arab Emirates under the Twenty20 format, started in 1984, and this is its 17th edition.<\/p>\n<p>India are the holders and beat Pakistan in both previous matches during this edition, but left-arm seamer Shaheen was in a bullish mood after taking 3-28 against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to win the cup, whichever team comes in the final, we are ready to beat them,\u201d Shaheen said ahead of India\u2019s victory against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>If Pakistan do reach the final, India will once again start as strong favourites having won 12 of 15 T20Is between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>India have also won the last seven internationals against Pakistan since September 2022, four T20Is and three one-day internationals.<\/p>\n<p>That sequence prompted India skipper Suryakumar Yadav to declare India-Pakistan \u201cis not a rivalry any more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In both wins for India in the UAE, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2025\/9\/14\/india-vs-pakistan-asia-cup-match-hit-by-no-handshake-controversy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">there were no handshakes<\/a>, adding another layer to an already intense rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is his opinion that. Let him say that,\u201d said Shaheen of Suryakumar\u2019s cutting comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is to win the Asia Cup, and we will make a complete effort to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan face Bangladesh on Thursday in an eliminator ahead of Sunday\u2019s final of the 2025 Asia Cup, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,64,63,740,1209,44,15299,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pakistan","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}