{"id":118042,"date":"2025-09-06T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118042\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:39:13","slug":"afghanistan-win-by-4-runs-against-uae-in-t20-tri-series-penultimate-match-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118042\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan win by 4 runs against UAE in T20 tri-series penultimate match &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan won by four runs against the United Arab Emirates in their T20 tri-series match in Sharjah on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan will now face each other in the final on September 7 (Sunday). Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1939710\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entered the final<\/a> after beating the UAE twice and Afghanistan once.<\/p>\n<p>They set a target of 171 for the UAE today, with the latter side managing 166.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan skipper Rashid Khan won the toss earlier and opted to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>The tri-series of Twenty20 international matches is to tune up for the Asia Cup and features Pakistan, the UAE and Afghanistan. Afghanistan had already beaten the UAE by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1939021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">38 runs<\/a> in Sharjah on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afghanistan won by four runs against the United Arab Emirates in their T20 tri-series match in Sharjah on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-118042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}