New Delhi. Asia Cup 2023 is going to start soon. The match between India and Pakistan will be played on September 2 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. After almost 4 years this year Asia Cup will be played in 50 over format. The last time the Indian team faced Pakistan in this format was in the year 2019. Team India had a great victory in that match.
The match between these two teams was played in June 2019 Asia Cup in Manchester. Pakistan won the toss and invited India to bat. KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma came to open for Team India. Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant century by batting brilliantly. At the same time, KL Rahul was able to score 76 runs in 78 balls. Virat Kohli, who came in to bat at number three, was not far behind. He played an innings of 77 runs off 65 balls.
In this match, India made a big score against Pakistan on the basis of Rohit Sharma’s brilliant century. Rohit hit 14 fours and 3 sixes in an innings of 140 runs. In this way, India scored 336 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Now Pakistan had a target of 337 runs. While opening for Pakistan, Imam-ul-Haq was dismissed for 7 runs. Fakhar Jama, who accompanied him at the same time, scored 62 runs in 75 balls. Babar Azam was dismissed after scoring 48 runs. Apart from this, no batsman of Pakistan could score more runs. In this way Pakistan team could score only 212 runs while chasing 337 runs and team India won this match easily by Duckworth rule.
Indian Team Squad for Asia Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya (Vice-Captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Akshar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, the famous Krishna.
Pakistan Squad for Asia Cup 2023: Babar Azam (capt), Abdullah Shafiq, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul Haq, Salman Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Taib Tahir, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr. , Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi.
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First published: August 25, 2023, 06:32 IST