Captain Sae Muhammad Waseem emphasized the unity in his team in the Asian Cup in the middle of the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan. On Thursday, UAE completed their campaign at the 41-Run tournament on Pakistan Salman Agha at the International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.
The SAE cricket team boasts a balanced combination of Indian and Pakistani players. The Indian party is represented by Simranjeet Singh, Rahul Chopra, Harshit Kaushik, Dhruv Parashar and Alishan Shara and Pakistani contingent Captain Muhammad Waseem, Haider Ali, Junaid Siddique, Muhammad Rohid and Asif Khan.
Despite the political tensions between India and Pakistan Wase, the UAE group acts as a United team and postponed national identities aside. He noted that the ongoing Indo-Pak situation did not create any friction in the camp, focusing only on cooperation together.
“No, we’re not talking about it (Indo-Pak tension) when we play a lot of cricket. We’re here as a family. There is no Indian and no Pakistani. We play for the UAE team. We play as a family and live as a family,” Waseem said.
“We came here to play the game”
On Thursday the match began at 19:30 local time, an hour later than scheduled, then Pakistan threatened to pull out And he criticized Andy Pycroft’s referee over the Handshake series in India-Pakistan’s Conflict of 14 September.
In the end, the players took the field after they allegedly received an apology from Pycroft, although ICC claimed that the Zimbabwa veteran was acting properly and that Pakistan had not provided any evidence to support his claims.
Waseem’s men were able to refer to Walkover because of the delay because the hosts arrived at the stadium two hours before the planned start. Pakistani Waseem, however, mentioned that he had never considered persecution of such a procedure.
“At first it is not our responsibility or our work. We focused on our game. We came here to play the game, and we did it. It didn’t matter if we played in time or play late. It doesn’t matter if we play at 18:30 or 19:30.
Meanwhile, India and Pakistan are re -ready to face themselves in the Super Four Clash on Sunday 21st September in Dubai.
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
September 18, 2025
Tune
