Arshdeep watches UAE batters practice their strokes ahead of Asia Cup opener

Dubai [UAE], September 9 (ANI): Indian left-armer Arshdeep Singh saw UAE batters practising retired successful nets up of their Asia Cup run opener successful Dubai connected Wednesday.

Team India, the 2023 50-over Asia Cup winners, volition beryllium aiming to adhd different T20 Asia Cup rubric to their furniture arsenic they instrumentality connected the UAE connected Wednesday.

The hosts are led by globe-trotting T20 specializer Muhammed Waseem.

Ahead of the match, portion UAE batters were grinding it retired successful the nets.

Arshdeep is India's starring wicket-taker successful T20Is and has 99 wickets successful 63 matches astatine an mean of 18.30, with a champion people of 4/9. One much wicket volition marque him the archetypal Indian to get a period of wickets successful T20Is. He could besides go the fourth-fastest bowler to scope the milestone, with Afghanistan skipper Rashid Khan reaching this milestone successful conscionable 53 matches. Arshdeep could besides go the fastest pacer ever to implicit a period of T20I wickets.

This twelvemonth successful 3 T20Is, helium has taken 4 wickets astatine an mean of 23.00, with champion figures of 2/17.

Following this match, India volition play arch-rivals Pakistan connected September 14, followed by their last radical signifier lucifer against Oman connected September 19. The Super 4 signifier of the contention volition commencement from September 20. The last volition beryllium played connected September 28, and India volition beryllium aiming to unafraid their 2nd Asia Cup T20I rubric aft 2016.

Team India squad for Asia Cup: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

Reserve players: Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal. (ANI)