India vs Pakistan Highlights, Asia Cup: IND crowned Asia Cup champions after thrilling win, but not awarded the trophy

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Wow, things just got interesting! Dube hits it well but not well enough, can't clear long off.

New man will come in and Tilak will be on strike, but India need 10. Tough with pressure on!

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: How about that! Known for his stationary swings, but he's used all of his crease there. Gets across, and picks the midwicket gap with perfection.

10 off 8 needed… whiffs on the next one. 10 off 7…

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: A break in play as Faheem Ashraf pulls up and is tended to. Is this genuine cramp affecting him or a touch of gamesmanship to stop India's momentum?

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Just 7 off the first 5 balls, but Dube has done so well to capitalise when he gets the mistake! Juicy full toss which he tonks over midwicket, miles deep.

17 needed off the last 2 overs!

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Shaheen pulls it back a touch. 30 needed off the last 3 overs now, no boundaries off that one.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Excellent for India! Shivam Dube tonks Abrar for a big six, and Tilak reaches 50 later in the over.

Just 36 needed off the last 4.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: JUST WHAT INDIA NEEDED! Haris Rauf gets taken down! Two fours and a six off that, and India have reached the three-figure mark. 47 needed off the last 5.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Getting tetchy! Tilak survives a close run out call, but the run rate has climbed close to 11. India need a big over in the next couple or the pressure will begin getting to them.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: No no no! Just what they were refraining from doing but it gets to Samson! Tossed up outside offstump, Abrar wants to sucker Samson into that kind of shot, and the batter obliges! Never at the pitch of it, and it slices straight into the air. Really poor wicket to give away at this stage, and Pakistan will feel confident again!

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Really nicely done! Only goes for it when Ayub drops one short, allows him to rock back and swat it deep into the stands. Keeping tabs on the required rate now.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Happy to take singles and rotate strike and pick up one boundary an over. 11 runs off that over, just what this pair needs to keep doing. Chipping away.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Required rate still well within reach, but certainly ticking upwards as India going at it slow and steady at the minute. Gautam Gambhir heads down during drinks for some words of wisdom – he knows a thing or two about batting in a T20 final vs Pakistan.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Indian hearts were in their mouths but poor outfielding has helped Sanju Samson! A poor shot after India were ticking it along, down to Talat at square leg. He got there with time to spare, got two hands to it, and just couldn't grab on as it popped out. Samson gets away with one.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: First six of the innings. The kind of over India really needed. Tilak first times one seetly through covers, then a pickup off his hips, easily done, for the maximum.

Spinners will be coming on.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: What are you doing out there, India! Such shots are not the need of the hour at all. Shubman has gotten a four on the previous ball, now advances and tries to spank a slower one over mid-on. The connection is not there, and it's a good leaping catch — but that's such poor batting! And now Pakistan have the momentum.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Just a pause at the moment as some of the lights at the ring of fire go out. Much-needed pause for India – and once we're back, Shubman Gill nearly throws his wicket away with a run-out! Very lucky, but India are looking super nervy. Need a boundary or two to settle down!

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: Disaster! Sky tries to drive but he gets absolutely none of it. Just a weak, floaty shot to Salman Agha, who dive forward, and just about gets his fingers underneath the ball. This could be controversial, but it looks out!

10/2, and India suddenly in trouble. Poor shot, you have to say.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: This just got interesting! Pakistan really needed this wicket, Abhishek could have settled it in the powerplay. Faheem Ashraf pushes it across, Abhishek is always stretching, and toe-ends it right into the air. Simple catch.

Are India in trouble here?

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: We are all set for Round 3 of Abhishek Sharma vs Shaheen Afridi. The Indian batter smashed a four through point against the away-swinger to get the contest off to a stunning start. India get seven runs in the first over.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: With his 4 for 30 against Pakistan today, he became the second Indian bowler to have 17 wickets in a single T20I series or tournament - the most by any player in the world. Arshdeep Singh is the other Indian bowler, who had recorded the feat in the T20 World Cup last year, and so did Afghan pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi. Although, among the top three, Kuldeep has the better economy rate.

Most wickets in a T20I series (Full Member teams):

17 - Kuldeep Yadav, Asia Cup 2025 (ER: 6.27)

17 - Fazalhaq Farooqi, T20 WC 2024 (ER: 6.31)

17 - Arshdeep Singh, T20 WC 2024 (ER: 7.16)

16 - Wanindu Hasaranga, T20 WC 2021 (ER: 5.20)

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: Pakistan will be shocked by what they have just seen. They were on 113/1, looking set for a big total. Then the spinners ran them over. Two wickets for Varun, two for Axar, and FOUR for Kuldeep, before Bumrah wrapped up the tail.

The complexion of this match has changed in the shift of an eye. And now India will fancy their chances of wrapping this up comfortably.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Nine down! Full and straigh, Rauf just can't catch up with it, and his off stump goes flying. India one wicket away from wrapping things up.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Kuldeep Yadav playing with his food! One in, two out, one in, and Shaheen Afridi not close to making contact once. The last one strikes him on the pads, given not out, but SKY reviews – and it's crashing into the stumps! Pkistan all over the place.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Some fightback, some collapse! In the last 5 overs, the score has gone from 113/1, to wicket after wicket tumbling and leaving Pakistan reeling at 133/6! India well on top now, the spinners are on top! Two for Axar, two for Kuldeep, two for Varun.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: India are suddenly on top here! Fakhar connects a big six, but Varun has his number. Thrown up outside off stump, and Fakhar is always reaching for it: he tries to drive, but it slices, and point can hustle backwards and takes a nice catch. Gambhir is enjoying himself, you can see what that means to him!

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Soft, soft wicket! Haris is just new to the crease, and he tries a cute chip shot, but it's straight to long off. I don't know what he was going for there, but it's catching practice in the outfield. India fighting back.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Kuldeep Yadav hasn't had the best day, but there's the wicket he would have wanted! Saim can't connect with the cut, and it floats to point, where a good low catch is taken.

113/2 after 13.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: MUCH-NEEDED FOR INDIA! Farhan was beginning to really get going, but that's what brings around his dismissal. He hits one over long-on, but the next shot is a little more agricultural, and straight down the throat of deep midwicket.

84/1, and IND have an opening.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: He's been very impressive thus far, hitting it really well and not getting bogged down. Fakhar Zaman also tonks Kuldeep for a six. India need a wicket soon.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: Kuldeep Yadav gets hit for six! Pakistan getting a move on. And they have plenty of wickets in hand. Concerning for India.

India vs Pakistan LIVE Score, Asia Cup 2025 Final: IND vs PAK: Axar also keeps it sharp. It takes a good shot from Farhan on the last ball of the over to pick up 4 more.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Runs dry up just a touch as Varun Chakravarthy attacks the stumps and doesn't let either batter free their arms. 37/0 after 5.

Axar Patel from the other end.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Another quiet over from Dube, just 8 off it as Fakhar picks up four with an upper cut.

Bumrah, however, is getting some fire! Farhan hits him for four, and then connects over long off for the first six! Good batting now.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Farhan trying to be ultra-attacking, but these are mostly hoicks across the line he's not connecting with. Does pick up one boundary off Bumrah over the offside.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Bit of a surprise at the start as Shivam Dube takes the first over – and it's not bad! Strings together four dots, including a lovely play and a miss. Farhan forced to take a risky swing across the line to pick up four.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: India only going in with 5 bowling options, with Abhishek Sharma capable of turning his arm over if needed. But the powerplay options are short: Bumrah will almost undoubtedly take 3, but Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy might need to squeeze out 3 between them as well. Means Pakistan won't face as much spin as they would have feared through the middle. Have India made the right call?

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Meanwhile, a settled Pakistan team sees Saim Ayub retain his spot despite four ducks this tournament, and no surprises otherwise.

PAK XI: Sahibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Salman Agha (c), Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Jasprit Bumraha and Shivam Dube come in as expected, but no Hardik Pandya means it's the extra batter in Rinku SIngh who plays, and not the extra seamer as expected.

IND XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: News from the toss! Suryakumar Yadav has won it, and put Pakistan in to bat first — so a reprisal of the first two matches. Three changes for India as Hardik does miss out, Rinku Singh comes in.

Pakistan will be unchanged.

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final, IND vs PAK: Not good news for Indian fans — Hardik Pandya isn't in his training gear as the players warm up before the match begins. He is separate from the rest of the group, which suggests he might not be gearing up for action tonight. A quandary for India to solve when they get to it: Hardik's impact is difficult to downplay.