Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam touched a new milestone for the Pakistan cricket team and the same was waited by the fans for many years. Pakistan registered their first victory over team India in the world cup and they have done it in a style and won the game by 10 wickets. Pakistan had dominance in the game in all the areas, as the team gave a shocking start to team India by removing their most dependable opening pair and the bowling department ruled over the innings of India. The batting of Pakistan was just incredible as the bowling unit of team India never came into the game. So without making any further delay let’s dive into the article to check out the complete details of the match between India versus Pakistan in the super Sunday.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field first in Dubai cricket stadium. Well, the trusted opening pair of India- KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma came out to start the proceedings but the sensational bowler of Pakistan Shaheen Shah Afridi provided a ‘Dream Start’ for Pakistan by removing both the batsmen for 3 and 0 respectively. Suryakumar Yadav once again disappointed the fans, as he went back to the pavilion for just 11 runs. While the captain Virat Kohli showcased his character by scoring 57 runs from 49 deliveries and helped the team India to secure a decent score on the board. Having said that, he was also dismissed by Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Rishabh Pant also played a decent innings by scoring 39 runs but when he tried to accelerate the innings, he failed to do so and dismissed in the fashion of c & b by Shadab Khan. Ravindra Jadeja added just 13 runs in his account while Hardik Pandya scored 11. India finished their innings at 151/7 after 20 overs on the board.
In the reply, the Pakistan cricket team never felt a problem while chasing the target, as the opening pair of the team done it comfortably. Mohammad Rizwan smashed 79 runs while Babar Azam added 68 runs in his account and guided their side to the victory by keeping 10 wickets in their hand.
It is worth mentioning that Pakistan is the fourth team to register a victory in the T20 format by keeping 10 wickets in their hand. Australia did this incredible achievement for the first time and that was against Sri Lanka in 2007 while South Africa registered 10 wickets victory over Zimbabwe in 2012 and Oman did this achievement against Papua New Guinea in this T20 World Cup.
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