Captain Babar Azam rued Pakistan’s batting collapse after his facet suffered a seven-wicket defeat in opposition to arch-rival India within the World Cup. India dominated with the bat and ball within the marquee encounter. India had additionally scored a complete win in opposition to Pakistan within the Asia Cup final month. Babar Azam (50), and Mohammad Riawan (49), stepped up for Pakistan however the crew misplaced eight wickets for 36 runs and collapsed from 155/2 to 191 all out.
“We started well, good partnership. We just planned to play normal cricket and build partnerships. Suddenly there was a collapse and we could not finish well. Not good for us, the way we started, our target was 280-290 but the collapse cost us. The total was not good. We are not up to the mark with the new ball,” Babar mentioned in a post-match presentation on Saturday.
Pakistan skipper praised India captain who scored a powerful 86 of 63 balls with the assistance of six boundaries and 6 most.
“The way Rohit played, was an outstanding innings. We just tried to take wickets, but that didn’t happen.”
Coming to the match, Indian batters regarded effectively poised from the start to chase the Pakistan whole.
Shubman Gill, who made his first look within the ODI World Cup, scored some scintillating hits earlier than shedding his wicket. He struck three consecutive fours off Hasan Ali within the second over of the Indian innings.
Shubman was out on Shaheen Shah Afridi’s bowling and the hope his wicket could have generated amongst Pakistan followers was short-lived.
Virat Kohli joined Rohit, who was easy in his energy hitting. Kohli additionally got here up with some robust blows earlier than he was caught off the bowling of Hasan Ali throughout the powerplay.
Rohit and Shreyas took cost and strode alongside at the same time as Pakistan bowlers tried exhausting to get a breakthrough.
The sea of Indian followers, lots of them wearing blue, cheered and waved as Indian batsmen struck within the match performed on the Narendra Modi Stadium right here.
Rohit fell wanting his well-deserved century by 14 runs. Shaheen claimed his second wicket of the evening with Rohit walked again to the pavilion with a rating of 86.
In his well-paced innings, Rohit crossed the milestone of 300 ODI sixes which have are available in 254 matches. With 351 sixes in 308 video games, former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi leads the tally, whereas West Indies legend Chris Gayle hammered 331 maximums in 301 encounters.
After Rohit’s departure, Shreyas 53* and KL 19* guided India to a complete 7-wicket victory to make it 8-0 within the World Cup between the 2 arch-rivals.
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