The match between India versus Pakistan is always filled with a special type of excitement. In the league stage, the excitement was taken away by rain as the match between India versus Pakistan was called off. The same situation happened in the Super 4 stage as well, but the reserve day made it possible to watch a full match in 2 days. The match started on Sunday and we got the result of the match on Monday. The opening pair of team India provided a good start and laid a strong foundation for a massive score. KL Rahul and Virat Kohli did the job in a perfect manner to post a massive score in front of Pakistan. The magical spell of Kuldeep Yadav made things easy for team India to register a massive 228 runs victory over Pakistan. So without making any further delay let’s get into the article to check out the full details of the match between India versus Pakistan.
The captain Rohit Sharma and his partner Shubman Gill started the proceedings and the captain smashed 56 runs from 49 balls while Shubman Gill scored 58 runs from 52 balls. Virat Kohli and KL Rahul then came into the middle but rain stop the game on Sunday.
The overnight players came out and played sensibly with calculated risks. Virat Kohli posted 122 runs from 94 balls and he passed through 13000 runs in ODI format. It is his 47th century in ODI as well. Now the record of the legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s 49 centuries in ODI is the next milestone that Virat Kohli is looking for and the same can be achieved quite easily as Virat Kohli is having plenty of time and plenty of innings.
KL Rahul, on the other hand, showcased an incredible performance after coming out from an injury. He smashed 111 from 106 balls. Both players remained unbeaten and posted a massive score of 356 runs in front of Pakistan.
The inning of Pakistan was interrupted by rain but the game was resumed and the players of the Pakistan team might forget to play as no one took the responsibility to stand in the middle and the bowling unit of team India removed wickets in quick intervals.
Kuldeep Yadav removed 5 wickets from his 8 overs and gave just 25 runs. It is worth mentioning that only 8 players of Pakistan came out to bat as two players of Pakistan were injured and the injury happened while fielding. Pakistan ended inning in 32 overs and the team was all out for just 128.
Virat Kohli was named as the player of the match of the game and India will take on Sri Lanka today to make sure the place in the final of the Asia Cup.
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