Highlights of Indian innings: Ishan Kishan’s half century, score 175/7
Batting first, the Indian team has scored 175 runs at the loss of 7 wickets. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, the Indian team did not have a good start. India got the first blow in the form of Abhishek Sharma on the score of 1. Abhishek was out on 4 balls without opening the account. Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma made a quick partnership of 87 runs in 46 balls for the second wicket. Ishaan, who was batting brilliantly, was out after scoring 77 runs in 40 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 10 fours.
Partnership of 38 runs between Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav
Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav added 38 runs for the third wicket. Tilak was seen struggling during the innings and was out after scoring 25 runs in 24 balls. India got its fourth blow in the form of Hardik on the very next ball of Tilak’s dismissal. Hardik Pandya was out without opening the account. Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dubey made a partnership of 33 runs for the fifth wicket. Suryakumar Yadav was out as the fifth wicket after scoring 32 runs in 29 balls.
Shivam Dubey and Rinku Singh scored runs in the last overs.
Shivam Dubey scored 27 runs on 17 balls and Rinku Singh scored 11 runs on 4 balls, taking the Indian innings to 175 at the loss of 7 wickets. The way the Indian team had started and the way Ishan Kishan was batting in the beginning, the score seemed to be close to 200, but after Ishan was out, the run rate dropped and the team was left behind by at least 20 to 25 runs. Pakistan used six spin bowlers during the innings. Saim Ayub took 3 wickets, and Salman Agha, Usman Tariq and Shaheen Afridi took 1 wicket each.
Highlights of Pakistani innings: Hardik Pandya and Bumrah took 3 wickets in 2 overs.
The Pakistani team, which came to chase the huge score of 176 runs, had a very bad start. Hardik Pandya gave him the first blow in the very first over in the form of Shahibzada Farhan. This was over maiden. After this, Pakistani batsmen kept returning to the pavilion on the lines of ‘You go, I have come’. Jasprit Bumrah completely gave India the upper hand by dismissing Sam Ayub (6) and captain Salman Ali Aga (4) in the second over itself.
Barring Usman Khan’s inning of 44 runs, the entire Pakistan team could not withstand the Indian bowlers. Apart from them, only Shadab Khan (14), Faheem Ashraf (10) and Shaheen Afridi could cross the double figures. Babar Azam (5), Mohammad Nawaz (4) and Abrar Ahmed (0) lost wickets easily. For India, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel and Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets each.
