NEW DELHI: Kuldeep Yadav's craft and Axar Patel's disciplined bowling left the Pakistani batters completely flummoxed as India dominated to register a commanding seven-wicket win in a one-sided Asia Cup clash in Dubai on Sunday.

Despite boycott calls following the Pahalgam terror attack in April, a near-full crowd, overwhelmingly Indian, witnessed Pakistan being dismantled, one ball at a time.

Adding to the tension, there were no handshakes at the toss or after the match, as Pakistani players waited in line following skipper Suryakumar Yadav's match-sealing six.

Axar (2/18 in 4 overs), Kuldeep (3/18 in 4 overs), and Varun (1/24 in 4 overs) were unplayable, maintaining impeccable line and length, leaving Pakistan's batters with little answer.

Pakistan were restricted to a modest 127/9 - at least 50 runs short of a par score on the Dubai track.

In reply, Abhishek Sharma tore through Pakistan’s key bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi (0/23 in 2 overs), scoring a blistering 31 off just 13 balls, while Suryakumar Yadav celebrated his 35th birthday in style with 47 not out off 37, guiding India to a comfortable chase completed in 15.5 overs.

Suryakumar finished the innings emphatically and walked straight back to the dugout, bypassing any handshake with the Pakistan players.

The result was effectively sealed in the first innings, as Axar, Kuldeep, and Varun bowled a miserly 40 dot balls between them and collectively claimed 6 wickets for 60 runs in their 12 overs.

Add another 15 dot balls from Jasprit Bumrah (2/28 in 4 overs), and one can understand the plight of the Pakistani batters, who played dot balls worth 10.1 overs.

Bumrah's greatness could be gauged by the fact that on the day he was hit for his first six in a limited overs international (T20Is and ODIs combined) by a Pakistani batter after sending down 400 legal deliveries.

Had Shaheen Shah Afridi (33 not out off 16 balls) not used the long handle, the score wouldn't have gone past 125.

During the chase, Abhishek deflated the Pakistani hopes with a straight boundary and then a couple of sixes to up the ante.

Even after Shubman Gill (10) was quickly dismissed and Abhishek departed inside the fourth over, Suryakumar and Tilak Naidu (31 off 31 balls) didn't look in any hurry while adding 56 runs for the third wicket.

Earlier, Suryakumar lost the toss, didn't shake hands with his counterpart Salman Ali Agha, but never lost the plot as the opposition batters were all at sea from the very first legal delivery, when the highly rated Saim Ayub (0) slashed one off Hardik Pandya (1/34 in 3 overs) to Bumrah at point.

Bumrah in the next over got last match's top scorer Mohammad Haris (3) who tried a pick-up pull shot, but this time, Pandya returned the favour to India's lead pacer by taking a well-judged catch in fine leg region.

Sahibzada Farhan (40 of 44 balls) did hit Bumrah for a couple of sixes but largely couldn't read any of the Indian spinners as dot balls accumulated by the dozen.

It was not just poor shot selection but also lack of technique that troubled the Pakistan batters against the world's top spinners.

Only Fakhar Zaman (17 off 15 balls) could be excused for taking risk against Axar as he has had a good career match-up against slow left-arm orthodox bowlers.

Moments after Axar was brought into the attack, Fakhar went for the jugular and was caught at long-on by Tilak Varma.

Since they were unable to read the Indian wrist spinners from their hands, the Pakistani batters went for the obvious but high-risk option of playing the slog sweep. Both skipper Salman (3 off 12 balls) and the hard-hitting Hasan Nawaz tried to hit out of trouble without gauging the length and extra bounce.

The left-handed Mohammed Nawaz found Kuldeep's googly too hot to handle.

Farhan, who not for once dominated the spinners, holed out in the deep off Kuldeep as Pakistan's woes against India in multilateral events continued.