{"id":304090,"date":"2025-11-23T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:35:09","slug":"pakistan-win-third-title-beat-bangladesh-in-final-after-super-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304090\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan win third title; beat Bangladesh in final after Super Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan Shaheens beat Bangladesh A in the Super Over to win the Rising Stars Asia Cup 2025 cricket tournament at the West End Park International Cricket Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After opting to field first, the Bangladesh cricket team restricted Pakistan to 125 all out in 20 overs. Ripon Mondol led the attack with 3\/25 from his four overs, while Rakibul Hasan impressed with figures of 2\/16. Saad Masood top-scored for the Shaheens, holding the innings together by scoring 38 off 26 balls.<\/p>\n

In reply, spirited Bangladesh A were nearly out at 96\/9 in the 18th over before No. 10 batter Abdul Gaffar Saqlain (16 off 12) and No. 11 Ripon Mondol (11 off 9) rescued them with an unbeaten 29-run partnership.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Daniyal and Sufiyan Muqeem starred for the Pakistan cricket team with the ball. Ahmed Daniyal bowled four overs and returned with figures of 2\/11 before shining in the Super Over with two wickets.<\/p>\n

Sufiyan Muqeem claimed 3\/11 in his four overs. Habibur Rahman Sohan\u2019s 26 off 17 was the top score for Bangladesh A.<\/p>\n

In the Super Over, Ahmed Daniyal restricted Bangladesh A to 6\/2 from three balls after removing\u00a0Abdul Gaffar Saqlain and Jishan Alam. In reply, Pakistan Shaheens, thanks to Saad Masood and Maaz Sadaqat, chased down the target in four balls without losing a wicket.<\/p>\n

This was Pakistan Shaheens\u2019 third title at the Rising Stars Asia Cup, formerly known as the Emerging Teams Asia Cup.<\/p>\n

Champions in 2019 and 2023, Pakistan Shaheens are now the most successful cricket team in the tournament\u2019s history, ahead of two-time winners Sri Lanka A and one-time champions India A and Afghanistan A.<\/p>\n

Pakistan Shaheens never recovered from a chaotic start that saw them reduced to 2\/2 within seven balls. Yasir Khan was run out without scoring off the first delivery of the match and Mohammad Faiq fell for a duck in the second over when SM Meherob knocked over his stumps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ghazi Ghori was bowled for nine by Rakibul Hasan, who struck with his first delivery as Pakistan slipped to 25\/3.<\/p>\n

Maaz Sadaqat\u2019s busy 18-ball 23 offered some resistance before he chopped on against Jishan Alam and Arafat Minhas\u2019 25 off 23 balls ended when Abdul Gaffar Saqlain breached his defence with an off-cutter that kept low. At 64\/5 in the 11th over, the innings was firmly in Bangladesh A\u2019s control.<\/p>\n

Pakistan captain Irfan Khan struggled for fluency, crawling to nine off 22 balls before Rakibul Hasan trapped him LBW<\/a> to make it 75\/6. The only notable late push came from Saad Masood, whose 38 off 26 with three fours and three sixes lifted Pakistan towards a competitive score. However, his dismissal sparked a late collapse engineered by a superb spell from Ripon Mondol.<\/p>\n

Mondol delivered a sensational 19th over burst, claiming three wickets in four balls with pinpoint yorkers. He removed Shahid Aziz LBW, cleaned up the well-set Masood two balls later, and then knocked back Ubaid Shah\u2019s middle stump. Pakistan slid from 116\/6 to 118\/9 in the space of three deliveries and eventually could only manage 125.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh A\u2019s chase of 126 began as a brisk start but quickly descended into a collapse as Pakistan Shaheens\u2019 spinners ripped through the top order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Habibur Rahman Sohan provided early momentum with a lively 26 off 17 balls, striking three fours and two sixes to push Bangladesh A to 36\/1 by the fourth over. However, his dismissal sparked a dramatic slide which left Bangladesh A wobbling at 48\/5 in eight overs.<\/p>\n

A double-wicket over from Sufiyan Muqeem reduced Bangladesh A to 53\/7 in the 11th over.<\/p>\n

SM Meherob and Rakibul Hasan brought Bangladesh A back into the contest with a 37-run partnership, which was broken by Ahmed Daniyal in the 16th over.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh A, needing 36 off 27 when the partnership came to an end, could muster only nine from the next two overs, with scores at 99\/9 at the end of the 18th.<\/p>\n

However, Shahid Aziz\u2019s 19th over swung the match dramatically as Bangladesh A smashed 20 runs, including three sixes – two from Abdul Gaffar Saqlain and one from Ripon Mondol. The pair took full advantage of missed yorkers, reducing the equation to seven runs needed from the last over.<\/p>\n

Despite pinpoint accuracy from Ahmed Daniyal in the final over, Ripon Mondol and Abdul Gaffar Saqlain collected a nervy two, a couple of singles and two crucial byes to level the scores and take the match into the Super Over.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the tournament, Pakistan Shaheens topped their group unbeaten with wins over UAE, India A and Oman. In the semi-finals, they got the better of Sri Lanka A by five runs while defending 153. Bangladesh A, meanwhile, beat India A in the Super Over for a place in the final.<\/p>\n

Pakistan Shaheens vs Bangladesh A, Rising Stars Asia Cup 2025 final, brief scores: Pakistan Shaheens 125\/10 in 20 overs and 8\/0 in 0.4 overs (Saad Masood 38; Ripon Mondol 3\/25) beat Bangladesh A 125\/9 in 20 overs and 6\/2 in 0.3 overs (Habibur Rahman Sohan 26, Rakibul Hasan 24; Sufiyan Muqeem 3\/11) in Super Over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan Shaheens beat Bangladesh A in the Super Over to win the Rising Stars Asia Cup 2025 cricket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-304090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304090","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=304090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}