India vs Pakistan Highlights:, World Cup 2023: India emerge victorious by seven wickets against arch rivals Pakistan at a jampacked Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Team India continue their dominance against Pakistan in World Cups and extend their winning streak that began in 1992 to 8-0. let us now look at the India vs Pakistan Highlights.
India vs Pakistan Highlights, 1st innings
Earlier in the day Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. Shubman Gill returned to the playing XI after recovering from dengue. The Pakistan openers got off to a good start adding 41 runs to the first wicket before Abdullah Shafique (20 runs) was dismissed by Mohammad Siraj. Imam Ul Haq (36 runs) then edged one to KL Rahul in the bowling of Hardik Pandya.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan then paired up and steadied the innings. The duo added 82 runs in 99 balls for the third wicket and they were all set to score over 300 runs. Mohammad Siraj then returned to dismiss Babar Azam (50 runs) and Kuldeep Yadav followed it up by dismissing Saud Shakeel (6 runs) and Iftikhar Ahmed (4 runs) in quick succession.
Jasprit Bumrah in his second spell dismissed well set Mohammad Rizwan (49 runs) with an off cutter and followed it with another magnificent delivery to Shadab Khan (2 runs) and the tail enders were dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja. Pakistan lost their last eight for 36 runs and were bowled out for 191 runs.
Jasprit Bumrah (2/19), Kuldeep Yadav (2/35), Ravindra Jadeja (2/38), Hardik Pandya (2/34) and Mohammad Siraj (2/50) were the stand out performers for India.
India vs Pakistan Highlights, 2nd Innings
After a magnificent performance with the ball both the Indian openers set the tone for the chase adding 23 runs in 2.5 overs for the first wicket before Shubman Gill (16 runs) creamed one straight to the point fielder in the bowling off Shaheen Afridi. The Indian captain Rohit Sharma from the other end kept attacking the Pakistani bowlers smashing sixes for fun.
Virat Kohli smashed three fours and scored 18 runs before he mistimes one to the mid off fielder in the bowling of Hasan Ali. Rohit Sharma carried on his merry way brining up his fifty in 36 balls. Both Shreyas Iyer and Rohit Sharma kept attacking and smashing the Pakistani bowlers out of the park. The duo added 77 runs for the third wicket.
Rohit Sharma (86 runs) was on his way to score another world cup hundred but he edges one straight to the short mid-wicket fielder in the bowling of Shaheen Afridi. Shreyas Iyer then finished the match with a four in the bowling off Mohammad Nawaz and brought up his maiden World Cup fifty.
With the win over Pakistan, Team India become the new table toppers with six points in three matches. India next play against Bangladesh on 19th October at Pune.
