Who Is Haider Ali? UAE's Lahore-Born Left-Arm Spinner Stuns Bangladesh In Series Decider

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 13:46 IST

UAE's Haider Ali bowled a stunning spell of 4-1-7-3 to pb his squad to a seven-wicket triumph against Bangladesh successful the T20I bid decider successful Sharjah.

Haider Ali bowled a match-winning spell to stun a full-strength Bangladesh broadside (Picture credit: X @EmiratesCricket)

UAE’s rookie left-arm spinner Haider Ali connected Wednesday bowled a superb spell to drawback the Bangladesh squad off-guard, arsenic the visitors slumped to an unprecedented seven-wicket decision successful Sharjah, losing a three-match T20I bid 1-2, arsenic their stakes successful the shortest format touched a caller low.

A precocious bloomer, the 30-year-old Haider made his planetary debut successful the archetypal crippled of the bid against Bangladesh. He went for 30 runs successful his 4 overs successful that lucifer and returned wicketless.

After returning 0/31 successful the 2nd T20I, Haider spun a web successful the third, picking 3 wickets portion conceding lone 7 runs from his 4 overs.

Having been enactment successful to bat first, Bangladesh recovered themselves astatine 84/8 successful the 14th over, earlier wicketkeeper Jaker Ali and Hasan Mahmud added 44 runs for the ninth wicket.

After Jaker was dismissed by Saghir Khan, Hasan and Shoriful Islam built a 34-run concern for the 10th wicket to instrumentality Bangladesh to a respectable people of 162.

Haider dismissed skipper Litton Das for 14, Towhid Hridoy for a two-ball duck, and Mahedi Hasan for 2, to decorativeness with figures of 4-1-7-3.

Dhruv Parashar dismissed Bangladesh opener Parvez Hossain Emon with his archetypal shot successful the 2nd implicit of the innings.

Haider, introduced successful the onslaught successful the 4th over, struck golden arsenic well, trapping Litton LBW with his archetypal delivery.

Two deliveries later, Haider had Towhid Hridoy LBW arsenic well, this clip with a quicker ball. He returned for his 2nd implicit wrong the powerplay and finished things disconnected with different wicket disconnected the past delivery, cleaning up Mahedi Hasan’s stumps to permission Bangladesh reeling astatine 49/4.

In the chase, UAE mislaid Muhammad Waseem successful the 2nd over, earlier Muhammad Zohaib and Alishan Sharafu added 44 runs for the 2nd wicket. After getting reduced to 79/3 successful the 11th over, Sharafu and Asif Khan added 87 runs for the 4th wicket to instrumentality UAE implicit the line.

Haider’s spell of 4-1-7-3 is present the associated second-most economical four-over spell by an UAE bowler successful men’s T20Is, equalling Aayan Afzal Khan’s 4-1-7-3 against Cambodia past year.

This is the astir economical four-over spell by an UAE bowler against a full-member squad successful men’s T20Is, going past Mohammad Naveed’s erstwhile grounds of 4-1-12-2, acceptable 9 years back, against Bangladesh arsenic well.

Who Is Haider Ali?

Born successful July 1994 successful Lahore, Haider made his List A debut for Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited successful September 2018 against the Karachi Whites and bowled an economical spell of 10-0-33-0.

Haider made his first-class debut 3 days aboriginal and bowled a spell of 35-1-113-3, dismissing 2 acceptable absorption batters successful the archetypal innings.

Although it isn’t wide arsenic to erstwhile Haider moved to UAE, it looks similar a precise caller move, fixed that his debut has travel lone this month.

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