Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will renew hostilities once again when the two teams lock horns at the Dubai International Stadium for the Asia Cup on Sunday. This particular match is already happening under a cloud of controversy with a lot of people all over India not happy about the game being taken place just a few months after the Pahalgam terror attacks and its aftermath which had put these two countries on the brink of war.
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When it comes to the issues on the field, India eve without stars like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma look far more stronger than Pakistan who have come into the Asia Cup without their stars Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan. India boast of stars like Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy in their ranks with each players capable of winning a match for their team singlehandedly.
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Standing across them is new Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha, Saim Ayub, Hasan Nawaz, Abrar Ahmed, Sufiyan Muqeen, Mohammed Nawaz as well as Shaheen Shah Afridi. Even though there is a lack of stars in this lineup, this new look Men in Green will be looking to prove a point which might make them dangerous come match day.
With the heat in UAE already playing its part before the tournament even began with the matches pushed back by half an hour, expect more of the same on Sunday with Accuweather predicting temperature of 32° in the evening which will go down to 30° as the evening wears on. During the day, however, it’s going to be close to 40 degrees with the official number given by Accuweather being 37°.
Like the previous matches in this stadium , there is expected to be a tinge of green in the surface that plays right into the hands of the pacers while also giving batters plety of chances to flex their muscles due to its balanced nature.. as the match wears on, the spinners are expected to find more purchase from the surface. Coming to dew, Pakistan opener Ayub said on Saturday that in their match against Oman, there wasn’t much dew present on the surface when the Men in Green came to bowl in the second innings. If that is an indication, both teams might line up with spin-friendly bowling attacks.
India: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Jitesh Sharma(w), Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sanju Samson, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Arshdeep Singh
Pakistan: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Mohammad Haris(w), Fakhar Zaman, Salman Agha(c), Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem, Abrar Ahmed, Hussain Talat, Hasan Ali, Khushdil Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Salman Mirza
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