IND vs PAK, Asia Cup 2022, Live Cricket Score Updates: Group A - Live Cricket Score, Commentary.India vs Pakistan, Live Cricket Score Streaming and Updates: Hardik Pandya took three crucial wickets in the middle overs while Bhuvneshwar Kumar snared four as India bowled out Pakistan for 147 in their opening Asia Cup match on Sunday. Pandya ended with figures of 3/25 in 4 overs while opener Mohammed Rizwan was the top-scorer for Pakistan with a sedate 43 off 42 balls. Senior seamer Bhuvneshwar though had the best figures of 4 for 26. Earlier, India won the toss and elected to field. India preferred the power-hitting of Dinesh Karthik over Rishabh Pant to accommodate Kohli upfront.
Pakistan, without its key paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi, gave a debut to fast bowler Naseem Shah and also preferred Shahnawaz Dahani over fast bowler Mohammad Hasnain in the starting XI.
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Mohammad Nawaz comes to bowl now. Rohit Sharma slogs it this time and gets a six. Incredible batting by Rohit Sharma. 50 up for India. OMG!! Skipper Rohit Sharma departs. Huge blow!! IND: 50/2 after 8 overs
That's a great shot by Virat Kohli against Haris Rauf. He jabs it well this time and gets the result. Another boundary (leg byes) for India towards the fine leg. IND: 38/1 after 6 overs
Kohli times it well this time against Dahani and gets a boundary. He executes it well towards the cover point and gets the result. IND: 29/1 after 5 overs
Virat Kohli pulls it this time and gets a six against Haris Rauf. He is looking in great touch now. Both the batters are batting well now. IND: 23/1 after 4 overs
Edged a wide one, dropped. Flirted with a well-outside off ball, missed. Inside-edge, missed the stumps. Mistimes a drive, falls just clear of mid-off. That was Virat Kohli’s initial few moments at Asia cup.
After a few months where he was left ruing his luck - once he even threw his head to the skies and cried out, “What else do you want me to do?”, is luck turning his way?
There was one stunning shot in all this iffy play and miss. The first bouncer from a Pakistani bowler, after India had picked so many with them, was eagerly awaited and when Shanawaz Dahani, called “trump card for Pakistan” by Waqar Younis, bounced one short, it didn’t quite rise as much as he perhaps envisaged.
Kohli swivelled into a fiery pull, way in front of the square, and with lot of time on his hands. Would Dahani bounce again at him, and this time a tad quicker and higher, at his head? (By Sriram Veera)
Virat Kohli is in command! Stands tall to the shortish delivery from Dahani and pulls it with confidence. The key here was how Kohli picked the length ever so quickly. Much needed runs for India. IND: 10/1 after 2 overs
Naseem Shah nearly removes Kohli. Sharp chance at second slip but it's dropped. How costly will it be? This is truly a dramatic start.
Rohit and Rahul are at the crease. Rohit is on strike. Naseem Shah will open the attack. And Naseem Shah strikes with his second ball in T20Is... KL Rahul is bowled for a first-ball duck. WOW! What a start!
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In an India-Pakistan encounter, if a pace bowler makes an impact, conventional wisdom would suggest it would be through toe-crushing yorkers or lateral movement testing both edges of the bat.
Short-pitched stuff isn’t the vocabulary often used in these contests, especially in matches played in Asia. But even an Indian bowling line-up missing Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami was too hot to handle for the Pakistan batsmen. Avesh Khan is known to be nippy, but Bhuvneshwar Kumar and rookie Arshdeep Singh are not considered the quickest. However, all of them found considerable success by digging the ball into a surprisingly-responsive Dubai pitch.
One wonders whether it exposed a technical deficiency in the Pakistan batsmen, known more for their cavalier approach in the format, or they simply didn’t expect such a mode of attack. Their horizontal-bat shots betrayed a sense of desperation as if balls zoning in on the helmet or the ribs are not supposed to be part of the T20 syllabus. The hooks, pulls and cuts attempted rarely came off and they seemed confused when the ball was aimed at their bodies.
There were acclaimed tweakers in Ravindra Jadeja and Yuzvendra Chahal in the side, but it were the pacers that did all the damage. The left-arm spinner got one to grip the surface, turn and bounce alarmingly, but the leggie was the one Pakistan tried to target when he gave the ball some air. (By Tushar Bhaduri)
Arshdeep Singh comes into bowl the last over for India. Dahani again smashes a six, that's a great shot. But Arshdeep has the last laugh as he gets Dahani out on the very next delivery. Pakistan put up a fighting total after late blitz. Time for the innings break! PAK: 147/10 after 19.5 overs
Dahani with a 91m six! Clears his front leg and bludgeons it over the cow corner for a huge hit. WOW
Shadab Khan begins the over with a four-off Bhuvneshwar Kumar but then he cleans him up on the next delivery. Shadab Khan walks back to the pavilion. He takes another one as Naseem Shah is seen out of the field. Dahani gets a six here. India have been penalised for their slow over-rate with one fewer fielder outside the 30-yard circle. PAK: 136/9 after 19 overs
Arshdeep Singh scalps the wicket of Mohammad Nawaz and Karthik makes it look easy behind the stumps and takes a catch. Haris Rauf ends the over with a boundary. PAK: 124/7 after 18 overs
Bhuvneshwar outplays Asif Ali and Suryakumar Yadav takes an easy catch. This is crazy!! Indian bowlers are dominating now. This is insane bowling by Bhuvneshwar. PAK: 114/6 after 17 overs
What a difference a fit Hardik Pandya makes! Ten months ago, the all-rounder was ambling along, not fit enough to bowl and even if he was bowling, Pandya wasn't bending his back. He was picked in India's T20 World Cup squad last year basically as a batsman and mostly on his reputation as a finisher. With Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan making light work of India's frontline bowlers in their World Cup group opener, the team didn't have a sixth bowler to turn to. On Sunday, at the same venue and against the same opponents, a sprightly Pandya, free from his injury woes, bent his back and broke the backbone of Pakistan's batting. An effort ball, a bouncer, accounted for Iftikhar Ahmed. Another short ball in his next over sent Rizwan packing before Khushdil Shah was snapped up a couple of deliveries later. 3/25 off four overs; Pandya's figures read. Pakistan weren't ready for the short-ball burst; the all-rounder going full tilt and at times clocking 140kph. (By Shamik Chakrabarty)
The other day at the training session, Avesh Khan was incensed as he was made to put through an extended spell of catching practice under the searing Dubai sun. After a while, he threw the ball in anger and implored the support staff to give him a break. At one instance, he refused to run for a coach, angering the fielding coach, who put him through further drills. But the effort Avesh put in, though reluctantly, paid off. Not one of the safest catchers in the team, he perfectly judged Mohammed Rizwan’s ramp, kneeling down in sync with the dipping ball and getting his palms and eyes right under the ball. After the catch, he flashed a sheepish grin and gestured towards the Indian dressing room. (By Sandip G)
At the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday was Vijay Deverakonda - the Telugu actor who has taken Bollywood by storm. India-Pakistan games, Gulf venue and film star - its a combination that has a history. Kapoors, Sanjay Dutta, Anju Mahendru, Feroz Khan and others stars would regularly light up the Sharjah sky. And in case you don't agree, check with Dhruv Rathi, the fact checker was also there for the big game. (By Sandeep Dwivedi)
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