India vs Pakistan: The Indian team has dominated its contemporaries over the years with its batting prowess. blue man who likes Virat Kohli, Rohit SharmaAnd KL Rahul Can dominate any opposition any day. But the Indian batting lineup has faced several downfalls over the years, and that too in big stages. Be it in the semi-finals of the ICC ODI World Cup in 2015 and 2019, the final of the ICC Championship trophy in 2017 or the semi-finals of the 2016 T20I World Cup, India have always been out for their disappointing batting performances. Something similar happened with Team India as well when they clashed against Pakistan in the T20I World Cup in 2021.
Due to the Asia Cup, Team India will try to bridge this gap and prepare itself for the big stage of the T20I World Cup to be played in Australia later this year. In the first match against India, Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to field first. The Indian pacer was right on the money and left no stone unturned to restrict the Pakistan batsmen to a small total of 147 runs. The old ghosts came back to chase the Indian team as they began proceedings in their chase. Team India lost KL Rahul early on as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli weren’t doing much and left much to do for the middle order. Both Virat Kohli and KL Rohit Sharma went early and it left India trailing at 53/3. Courtesy of Hardik Pandya33 more out of 17 deliveries Ravindra JadejaIndia won the match by 5 wickets after scoring 35 runs in 29 balls.
For some time now, this has been a recurring problem with Team India, players like Virat Kohli and KL Rahul are completely out of touch right now and this is good news for Tessem India with the World Cup in mind. Not there. The Indian management tried to start with Rishabh Pant, who doesn’t have impressive numbers in T20I cricket, but he somehow changed his mind and put Suryakumar Yadav in the mix. Pant opened with Rohit in England and Suryakumar Yadav opened in West Indies which did not go unnoticed by fans and experts around the world.
In the recently concluded match against Pakistan, the Indian team management tried to experiment and sent Jadeja ahead of Suryakumar Yadav. It may have been done to maintain the right-left combination but these sudden decisions are not allowing the Indian batting lineup to settle down. For the last few months, the Indian team has got heroes like Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja. Dinesh KarthikBut it is high time the top order starts contributing and eliminates their over-dependence on the middle order and the lower middle order.
Pakistan XI: Babar Azmi(C), Mohammad Rizwan (W), to flauntIftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Shadab KhanMohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shahnawaz Dahani
India XI: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Dinesh Karthik (w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar KumarAvesh Khan, Yuzvendra ChahaliArshdeep Singh