Afghanistan 161 for 6 (Shahzad 38, Najibullah 31*, Shahzad 3-34) beat United Arab Emirates 150 for 7 (Rameez 49, Janat 3-31, Fareed 2-21, Rashid 2-27) by 11 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details A quickfire opening knock from Mohammad Shahzad and late wickets from Fareed Ahmad and Rashid Khan sealed Afghanistans 11-run win against United Arab Emirates in the first of the three T20Is in Dubai. Chasing 162, UAE were threatening at one point at 106 for 3 in the 15th over before Fareed and Rashid struck twice each to dent the hosts lower order.Opting to bat, Afghanistan were steady till the 10th over with Shahzads 29-ball 38 but he was dismissed by his namesake, UAEs seamer, who was on a hat-trick as he had Samiullah Shenwari caught behind on the next ball. They stuttered further when Asghar Stanikzai was bowled for 13 in the next over.Afghanistan, however, recovered with a 40-run stand between Mohammad Nabi (26) and debutant Karim Janat (25) as the duo pushed the score past 100. UAE would have sensed another opening when Janat was run-out in the 17th over but Najibullah Zadran dashed their hopes by blasting 31 runs off only 10 balls in the slog overs.After smashing Rohan Mustafa for consecutive sixes in the 18th over, he struck a six and two fours off Amjad Javed and another set of those in the last over against Shahzad to help Afghanistan accumulate 55 runs in the last three overs.UAEs top order was rocked by Janats medium-pace as he broke the opening stand in the fourth over and removed Mustafa and Shahzad within a space of three balls in the seventh over, leaving UAE on 41 for 3. However, Shaiman Anwar Rameez Shahzad joined forces to score at nearly nine runs per over to help them past 100. 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They have a ways to go.Wearing a Harvard cap and sweatshirt, Abdul-Jabbar ducked his head to get through the door of the conference room overlooking the schools 113-year-old football stadium. Soon he would be joined by the players, all of them born long after he scored the last of his NBA-record 38,387 points.Settling into a chair in front of a fireplace with his latest book on the table in front of him, Abdul-Jabbar said he felt compelled to speak out about a political climate with an emphasis on anger and division.Theres a certain feeling of alarm among segments of our population because the skin color of the country has gotten a little bit darker over the past 20 or 30 years. And that has caused alarm for some people, he said. People of color are patriotic Americans in the same way that white people are.Abdul-Jabbar said it will be difficult to make progress on the countrys issues when the two sides arent listening to each other.A battle like this is not being waged with facts. That bothers me, he said. We should be able to agree on what the facts are.A student at UCLA in the late 1960s, Abdul-Jabbar lived through the Civil Rights movement and said he tried to follow the example set by Muhammad Ali, who was stripped of his title for refusing induction into the Vietnam War. Abdul-Jabbar refused to play on the 1968 Olympic basketball team, saying the country didnt represent him.Kaepernick made similar comments when he refused to stand for the national anthem before NFL games, a protest that renewed the debate on race.Its not easy, trying to motivate people, especially on something as politically volatile as these issues are. Peeople being shot in the street, its a very emotional and a very intense subject, Abdul-Jabbar said.ddddddddddddIm sure hes finding that out. 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He encouraged college athletes -- not just at Harvard but even at more traditional basketball powers -- to spend more time in school so they could learn the game.The longer that they stay here, the better that they will play, he said. If they stay in college for four years, thats the best way to achieve all that they want to achieve as basketball players. To try to jump to the NBA is not the way to go.It wasnt Abdul-Jabbars first trip to the Ivy League school on the Charles River. In 1972, already an NBA champion, he attended Harvard summer school to learn Arabic so he could learn more about his Muslim faith.It was a tough semester for me, but I learned it, he said, reporting that he got an A.With former Celtics Satch Sanders and M.L. Carr sitting in the back of the room, Abdul-Jabbar said the highlight of his career was beating the Celtics in Boston in the 1985 NBA Finals. At the time, the Lakers had never beaten the Celtics for the championship.Asked where he would rank his performance in the movie Airplane! among his accomplishments, Abdul-Jabbars competitive spirit emerged.Airplane! has done better than any movie that Shaquille [ONeal] has made, he said. Ill leave it at that. ' ' '