Shaiman Anwar

United Arab Emirates might have lost all their four matches in the World Cup so far but they have the tournament's top-scorer so far in the lineup.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) players Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar Butt on Tuesday were banned from all cricket for eight years each after the ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found them guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.

A World Cup ton is a big milestone in any cricketer's career and Shaiman Anwar of UAE joined a select band of unlikely centurions who surprised everybody.

The gulf that exists between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the cricket field is wider than the Indian Ocean separating the two nations geographically .

Two senior international cricketers from the United Arab Emirates were found guilty on Tuesday of attempting to fix T20 World Cup qualifying matches in 2019.

India rounded off the league stage of the 2016 Asia Cup with a dominating display as they crushed a hapless UAE by nine wickets to maintain their unbeaten run, recording their fourth consecutive win of the tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.

Shaiman Anwar scored the first hundred by UAE batsman at the World Cup as the Middle East side posted 278/9 against Ireland in their Pool B match.

For the second successive night, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) endured a repeat of their Asia Cup opener against Sri Lanka--where their bowlers gave a good account for themselves only for the batsmen to come a cropper. Against Bangladesh on Friday evening, UAE's bowlers exploited the conditions well to restrict the hosts to 133-8 but their batsmen failed to make a match of it---surrendering the contest by 51 runs.

There are other players like UAE's Shaiman Anwar who scored over 300 runs in the tournament, including a century against Ireland and two half-centuries against Pakistan and Zimbabwe.

Trust Pakistan to make life difficult for themselves. On Monday night, Shahid Afridi's men first allowed United Arab Emirates to post 129-6, and then lost their top-3 batsmen with just 17 on board before getting their act together to post a seven-wicket win in their Asia Cup round-robin clash at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

A look at the underdogs of the 2015 ICC World Cup, who have shone bright and broken stereotypes of the game.

Mehar Chhayakar, an Indian cricketer formerly based in the United Arab Emirates, has been banned from all cricket for 14 years for seven breaches of the sport's anti-corruption code, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday. Chhayakar was found guilty by an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal of attempting to influence aspects of the UAE's one-day international series in Zimbabwe in 2019 as well as matches in the Global T20 franchise tournament in Canada in the same year.

Highlights and takeaways from the Asia Cup opener between India and Bangladesh played at Mirpur.

Left-arm spinner Nikita Miller and speedster Kemar Roach saved West Indies from embarrassment as they bowled the two-time former world champions to a 32-run victory over United Arab Emirates in a warm-up match of the ICC 2019 World Cup Qualifier.

Mahmudullah Riyadh produced an all-round effort to guide hosts Bangladesh to a comprehensive 51-run win against United Arab Emirates in the Asia Cup T20 tournament.

Rashid Khan took a big leap towards becoming the quickest bowler to 100 ODI wickets when he grabbed his fourth five-wicket haul as Afghanistan overcame a top-order batting collapse to prevail over the United Arab Emirates in a Super Six fixture of the ICC World Cup Qualifier on Tuesday.

Captain Paras Khadka's hundred, the first ever by a Nepal batsman in ODIs, gave his side their maiden ODI series win as they triumphed over UAE by four wickets.

India would look to complete a hat-trick of victories when they take on minnows UAE in their third group league match of the Cricket World Cup on Saturday.

Statistical highlights of the twenty20 match of the Asia Cup cricket tournament between India and UAE here.

UAE had promised to be competitive after running two previous opponents - Ireland and Zimbabwe - surprisingly close, but India were a different proposition.