{"id":133303,"date":"2025-09-12T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133303\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:17:07","slug":"asia-cup-2025-pakistan-skittle-oman-for-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133303\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: Pakistan skittle Oman for winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Saim Ayub and captain Salman Agha were both out for first-ball ducks, while Pakistan failed to kick on from 102-2 after Haris dragged on to left-arm spinner Aamir Kaleem, who took 3-31, in the 13th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oman, who qualified for the last T20 World Cup and will play in the Asia qualifier for a place at 2026 tournament next month, reached 41-2 in reply, but lost their next seven wickets for 10 runs and the remaining eight for 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamer Faheem Ashraf took 2-6, wrist spinner Sufiyan Muqeem 2-7 and Ayub 2-8 with his off-spin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan, who left former captains Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan out of their squad, play rivals India in Dubai on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opener Saim Ayub and captain Salman Agha were both out for first-ball ducks, while Pakistan failed to kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-133303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133303","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=133303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}