Pakistan's Khushdil Shah, fourth right, celebrates their win in the T20 cricket match of Asia Cup against India, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2022 Super 4, Highlights: Pakistan beat India by five wickets in their Super 4 game of the Asia Cup here on Sunday. Chasing 182 for a win, Pakistan overhauled the target with one ball to spare. Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 71 off 51 balls while Mohammad Nawaz chipped in with 42 as Pakistan reached 182 for 5 in 19.5 overs.
For India, all the bowlers — Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravi Bishnoi, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal — took a wicket apiece. Invited to bat, India posted 181 for 7. Virat Kohli top-scored for India with 60 off 44 balls, while KL Rahul and captain Rohit Sharma contributed 28 apiece. For Pakistan, Shadab Khan picked up two wickets for 31 runs, while Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah and Mohammad Nawaz took a wicket each.
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Babar Azam: Our effort is to keep it simple. Ups and downs will keep happening. They got the edge the way they utilised the powerplay. But our bowlers made a comeback. Rizwan and Nawaz partnership was the turning point. I had a hunch Nawaz would be key against legspinners (about his promotion).
Rohit Sharma: "I think the form is brilliant. Needed someone to bat long when the others were getting out. He batted with that tempo as well. Virat getting that score was crucial from the team's point of view."
Rohit Sharma: "A game like that can take a lot. We were calm even when there was a partnership between Rizwan and Nawaz. But that partnership obviously went a little long and they batted brilliantly. Games like this can bring the best out of them if they deliver. These are the games that can make them. They've done it in the past. There's a class in the other team as well. And we're not surprised with that. We understand the pitch gets slightly better in the second innings. It's a good learning for us. I thought it was a good score. Any pitch, any conditions when you get 180 it's a good score."
It could well have been real tight - who knows it might even have been game set match India - had Arshdeep Singh taken the catch of Asif Ali in the 18th over. Pakistan required 32 runs in 15 balls when Asif got a top edge on the slog sweep off Ravi Bishnoi and the ball swirled to Arshdeep at short third man. He was all cool about it, perhaps too cool, as he tried to pouch it nonchalantly. And it popped out of his hand, to his horror.
And when he saw Asif Ali looting Bhubaneshwar Kumar for 19 runs next over, it might have broken a lesser man. Not Arshdeep. He produced a stunning last over to take the game ever so close. Defending just 7, he took out Asif with a yorker in the third ball to push the game to 2 from 2. But redemption wasn’t on cards on the night, and a low full toss was hit over his head for two. And even as the fielder released a weak throw from the deep and before the batsmen completed the second run, Arshdeep flicked out the bails at the non-striker’s end. The LED lights lit up, and the light went out of India’s resistance.
- Sriram Veera
Mohammad Rizwan: "The whole world is watching this match. This game is as valuable as a final. Every player will try to go give his 100%. The plan, as always, was to score against the new ball with one of us (himself and Babar Azam) batting long. As Pandya said he wanted to do in last match, I tried to stay till the end. We know our strengths, we have depth in our batting, we have power-hitters who are capable of hitting around 45 runs off the last four overs. So we didn't panic."
Another Sunday that brought a bunch of heart palpitations for both sets of fans. Pakistan emerge victorious towards the end of it. A brilliant chase of 182 that puts them on equal points with Sri Lanka. The two teams that had lost a match each in the group stages now lead the table in Super 4. This tournament just got more exciting!
Another full toss from Arshdeep and Iftikhar Ahmed slashes it down, gives Pakistan time enough for two and they have done it. A five wicket win and points off their first Super 4 match. Celebrations worthy of the win, their highest chase against India in the format.
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Far from over this game as Arshdeep has Asif Ali lbw on the fourth delivery. Two runs needed off two balls now.
Asif Ali picks a lower full toss from Arshdeep, deep in his crease, and hits it down the ground for a four. Two needed off four balls.
Asif Ali adjusts himself outside the off stump to pick that slower wide delivery from Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Two more boundaries in the over for Pakistan. Guess where the equation is. Exactly where it was last Sunday but for the other team. Seven needed off the last six.
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Good over that from Ravi Bishnoi, one with lots of drama. A wide that was reviewed for about five minutes for a caught behind. Arshdeep Singh drops Asif Ali! How costly will that prove to be for India at this stage? Pakistan need 26 off the last 12 balls.
Hardik Pandya gets rid of Mohammad Rizwan. Gets him to chip it straight to Suryakumar Yadav at long off. Pakistan 148/4 after 17 overs. Guess where India were at this stage, 148/5.
Just the wicket India needed. Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets Mohammad Nawaz to sky one straight into Deepak Hooda's hands at long off. Brilliant over this for India, only four off it. Pakistan three down for 139 after 16 overs.
Three boundaries off that Yuzvendra Chahal over with Mohammad Nawaz sweeping twice for eight and Mohammad Rizwan adding four more courtesy of his cut shot. Pakistan accumulate 16 runs from the over, 135/2 after 15 overs.
Been quite the contrasting India-Pakistan night for Hardik Pandya as compared to the one last Sunday. With the bat, with the ball. Mohammad Nawaz keeps the boundaries coming with that four through the extra cover region followed by a lucky edge glazing off a bouncer that goes past the keeper. 12 runs off the over, 35 overall off Pandya. Pakistan now need 63 off 36 balls.
Only right that these two events happened on the same ball. Mohammad Rizwan is integral to Pakistan's T20 side and integral to their T20 chase today. Read more on that here.
11 runs off that Arshdeep over. Pakistan are 107/2 after 13 overs.
Another over, another six for Pakistan but the asking rate still against them. Mohammad Nawaz picks up Bishnoi's googly and sends way beyond the midwicket boundary. But the 21-year-old makes a strong comeback in the over, only four more runs off it. Pakistan, 96/2 after 12 overs.
10 runs off that Chahal over, his third of the night. Rizwan picked the leggie off his first ball, a full toss dispatched for a six over midwicket. Pakistan, 86/2 after 11 overs.
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106 runs needed off 60 deliveries. Pakistan will need Rizwan and Nawaz to raise the boundary bar now. Would be interesting to see how India utilise their pacers, given the no help policy of this wicket for the quicks.
Hardik Pandya comes back into the attack and is picked up by Mohammad Nawaz off his second delivery. Much needed six for Pakistan, but they'll need more of them. 9 runs off the over. The scoreboard reads 76/2.
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Ravi Bishnoi!
What a night he is having! Two boundaries off two balls with the bat. Two wickets so far in his spell today. Pakistan 6/72 after 9 overs.
Sandeep Dwivedi: Ravi Bishnoi is a leggie who doesn't really turn the ball away from right handers. He is more into top-spinners and wrong-ones. He also doesn't care about reputations. In a 'dream come true' kind of moment, Bishnoi had Babar Azam caught at short mid-wicket by Rohit Sharma. For the untrained eye it looked like a soft dismissal, Babar failing to keep down a flick off the legs. But that's Bishnoi's art. He deals in subtle changes of length and precise tweak to the ball. The ball to the Pakistan opener was slightly short of length and was a spinner's version of the heavy ball. It climbed on Babar and what the batsman thought would be milking the spinner for a single, proved to be his undoing. For Bishnoi it couldn't have been any better. If he had stumbled upon a lamp and the genie inside asked him what he wanted from the India-Pakistan game, the boy from Jodhpur would have said 'Let me get Babar in the first over.'
No better authority in Dubai right now to tell us the difference between Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravi Bishnoi in terms of their bowling styles. The two are leg spinners as per the designation but the former India head coach suggests that while Bishnoi brings in pace with him, Chahal likes to slow things down. Part of his chess bowling to set up the batters is to give them time to go for a big hit but not the pace off the ball.
Good use of the feet from Rizwan to hammer Chahal wide of long off. Wasn't a clear boundary for the Pakistan opener but a misfield from Virat Kohli in the deep. They don't come too often, folks. Seven off the over, Pakistan are 51/1 after 7.1 overs.
Rizwan did generate an incredible pick up six off Arshdeep but the 23-year-old didn't go for much in that over. Only two more as Pakistan finish the powerplay at 44/1.
Sandeep Dwivedi: You are padded up, ready to go into bat in a tense chase, the camera is on your face and what is the worst that can happen to you? Fakhar Zaman would have the answer. In a cruel broadcasting decision, they showed his many slip ups on the field while focusing the camera on his face. The last two balls of the Indian innings were a nightmare for Fakhar. On the second last ball, he failed to stop a lame drive on the cover boundary and this was followed by a goal keeper-type tipping over the bar help along that resulted in another boundary. This was after he had almost botched up a Rohit Sharma catch.
Rizwan and Zaman have gone after the all-rounder at the very beginning off his spell here. 14 off that over, Pakistan are 36/1 after five overs.
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Sriram Veera: Perhaps, no one does risky drive--run-dives better than Mohammad Rizwan. Often, he taps the ball to mid-on or mid-off and runs across breathlessly. For all purposes it seems faulty judgements or high-confidence in his athleticism, but he often does this and more often than somehow manages to get across. Always with a dive. Some times, just short but it wouldn’t be a direct hit. At times, he doesn’t even pick a ‘slower’ fielder, he has even attempted against Ravindra Jadeja, who had missed the direct hit then. Usually, Babar Azam just trusts his call and responds swiftly.
Tonight, too, he attempted it but Hardik Pandya, at mid-off, missed the direct hit and Rizwan survived again.
Ravi Bishnoi gets India the big wicket!
Babar Azam was looking in his usual run scoring mood, ends up giving an easy catch to Suryakumar Yadav who hangs onto it perfectly. The Pakistan skipper goes for 14 off 10. Just three runs off that over. 22/1 after 4 overs.
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Just when it seemed like Bhuvneshwar Kumar was going to finish a second consecutive India over without a boundary, Babar Azam disrupts his plans and gets a four between mid on and mid wicket. 19/0 after three overs.
Arshdeep Singh in to bowl the 2nd over. Starts with 2 dot balls before the 3rd is pulled for a single. Can't seem to get Arshdeep away, the Pak batters. Great over. PAK 11/0 after 2 overs.
Rizwan and Babar Azam are at the crease. Rizwan is on strike. Bhuvneshwar will open the attack. And Rizwan slashes the first ball for a four!!! Just what the doctor ordered. The 5th ball is sent to the boundary too, this time by Babar Azam. PAK 9/0 after 1 over.
They talk about Virat Kohli's cover drive, but his signature shot in limited-overs is the swat flick. It was out on display in Dubai, when he shuffled across, and wondrously wristed a Mohammad Hasnain-length ball over midwicket to bring up his 50.
Kohli’s isn’t a flick, really. It’s a mutant. A swat-flick, maybe. The bottom-hand powered shot feels like a stroke borrowed from table tennis. A crack of doom. Even he didn’t know what to call it initially. At the end of a press conference in 2009 in South Africa, as he was leaving, a short chat bubbled up between us.
‘Hey! Some flick shot, that. Comes naturally to you, na?’ Kohli’s answer stunned. “No, no, in fact, I can’t recall how and where it became part of my repertoire. I think from playing these T20s, I would just play the normal flicks before. What are you calling it?” ‘Er… thinking of swat-flick, you seem to be swatting the ball but flicking it at the same time’. And he pursed his lips and walked away.
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Sriram Veera: Deepak Hooda’s acrobatics had Virat Kohli roaring and punching his bat in admiration. It was a sharp bouncer from Mohammad Hasnain, on the leg and middle line, and Hooda arched back. The ball kept rearing at his body. He kept leaning further and further back. That alone would have been creditable, just the arching sway-back to evade a bouncer, but then Kohli won’t be clapping for that. Somehow in all this Neo-in-Matrix gymnastics, Hooda managed to get the bat in line and ramped it over the ‘keeper’s head for a stunning four. He dug his bat into the ground, like planting a flag, and Kohli had his bat above his head, punching away deliriously. He also rushed across to congratulate.
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Two misfields from Pakistan to finish a final over, which had otherwise conceded only one off four balls. Ravi Bishnoi the batter has two boundaries to his name. India finish at 181/7. 182 is the magic number for Pakistan.
This is turning out to be a fantastic final over from Pakistan. Looking for a double and keep the striker, Kohli is run out. India, 173/7 with two balls to go.
Looking to go big in the penultimate over, Hooda is caught by Mohammad Nawaz off Naseem Shah, who gets his first wicket of the day. India, 168/6 after 18.4 overs.
16 runs off that Hasnain over. Hooda uses the 146 KPH generated by Hasnain and just gets it over the keeper for a four. Kohli finishes the over with a six and brings up his fifty. India, 164/5 after 18 overs.
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That'll get him going. Dissects a gap between mid off and extra cover off a delivery angled into him. Eight runs off that over. India, 148/5 after 17 overs.
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Bit of pressure on Hooda, who is playing his first match at the 2022 Asia Cup. Just five runs off that Shadab over. India, 140/5 after 16 overs.
Deepak Hooda has joined Virat Kohli in the middle. India have done well to get to 135, but these two are their best bet to finish big. How do they go from here then? We are about to find out as Shadab Khan is handed the ball for the 16th over.
The Pakistan keeper/opener is in some discomfort and is receiving the treatment from the team physio in the middle. Will he continue? He's Mohammad Rizwan!
Pakistan get the big wicket of Hardik Pandya, just when India were repping up for a big finish!
Cross seamed delivery from Muhammad Hasnain. Last Sunday's player of the match, trying to whip it away on the on side, gives up a soft catch to Mohammad Nawaz. India, 131/5 after 14.4 overs.
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Sandeep Dwivedi: Some catch blinders and there are those who catch blindly. Khushdil belongs to the other tribe. There he was, getting under one Rohit Sharms mis-hit. He was perfectly placed, hands cupped and eyes on the ball. He was waiting for the ball to drop and land in his hands. And suddenly, from the corner of his eyes he would have seen a green blur. Fakhar Zaman was doing the cricketing equivalent of poking his nose in others' business. Actually it was his entire body that he was throwing towards Khushdil. Fakhar too had his eyes on the ball, in his mind it was his catch. He was on a collision course. With Khushdil almost squatting in anticipation, Fakhar got the first go at the catch. With the possibility of injury very high, Khushdil's eyes shut, out of instinct. But he didn't un-cup his hands nor move them away from the path of the ball. Fakhar missed the catch, the ball escaped from his fingers, only to fall in the hands of Khushdil. Imagine how it would have felt to feel the ball in your hands while in darkness. Several horrific accidents and injuries have happened on the field in such situations. Thankfully, this one ended in laughs and a sheepish Fakhar smile.
Shadab Khan gets Rishabh Pant. Caught by Asif Ali. Hardik Pandya comes in. India, 126/4 after 14 overs.
Kohli punishes a short of a good length delivery from him for a four through the covers. Rishabh Pant uses his brute strength to pull him past square leg for a four. 13 runs off that over. India, 118/3 after 13 overs.
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Four overs, just 25 runs, and Suryakumar Yadav’s wicket. In a land that doesn’t really respect the left-arm spinners too much.
"The finest of Pakistan cricketers convey in viewers a conviction that they are unreal artistes from an unreal world. A left-arm spinner is more the salt of the earth, humdrum, human even. They don’t stay in the mind or in the Pakistan team for long. In Tests, only Iqbal Qasim has played 50 games (and snared 171 wickets). In ODIs, no Pakistani left-arm spinner has picked up 100 wickets — part-timer Aamir Sohail helms the list with eighty five sticks," writes Sandip G
Read Sandip G’s profile story on him here.
No boundary conceded off that Mohammad Nawaz over. Only four runs off it and the spinner finishes his spell with the figures of 1/25. India, 105/3 after 12 overs.
Virat Kohli had done it on more than one occasion against Hong Kong and here he is playing that pull shot and getting the results off it. Short delivery and he swivels across and then pulls it behind square on the on-side to get a boundary on the second ball and set the tempo for the over. Four more runs come in the over, courtesy two singles and two wides. 100 up for India as well. 101/3 after 11 overs.
Rohit and Rahul had got India off to the start they needed having been put in to bat first. 91/3, with a fair bit of batting remaining looks good at the 10 over mark. With Rishabh Pant in, one can expect the no-nonsense policy to continue for the men in blue.
Mohammed Nawaz finds the breakthrough. A big wicket as India's number four departs for 13 off 10. He was looking good, wasn't he? Trying to go for another boundary but finds the fielder at deep backward square leg. India, 91/3 after 9.4 overs.
Runs off every delivery off that that Shadab Khan over. Nine overall as Virat Kohli is rewarded for a brave dance down the ground, looking to go over covers but instead, finds a thick edge and it goes for four through the third man region. India, 88/2 after 9 overs.
Suryakumar Yadav goes inside out, first ball against Mohammad Nawaz. Four at extra cover. India run four more and keep the flow going. 79/2 after 8 overs.
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Sriram Veera: The other day Haris Rauf waited after the game against India, and had Virat Kohli sign an India jersey as a gift. At the presser, he was asked, whether he quipped to Kohli, “I will still take your wicket (despite this gift)?” He smiled and said how it was lovely to interact with a player like Kohli. “It’s a game, and we play it as a game. Virat Kohli is a big player, the way he has performed for his country in international cricket, he is a legend of the game," said Rauf during a press conference on Saturday.
Tonight was the first time they are meeting on a cricket field after that Awww moment. And what was the first ball? A sharp bouncer but in his eagerness, Rauf had banged it too short and it flew over Kohli, who ducked, and Mohammad Rizwan, who leaped, and ran away for four byes.
Both openers back in the pavilion having given a good powerplay. Suryakumar Yadav keeps it going with a four off his first ball. Fractionally wide of off from Shadab and he is punished. Kohli finishes the over with another boundary at the deep midwicket. Nine off the over. India, 71/2 after seven overs.
Shadab Khan into the attack gets a wicket on his first ball. KL Rahul, looking to keep the tempo of the innings going, is caught at long on by Mohammad Nawaz. Both Indian openers back in the hut now. The scoreboard reads 62/2 after 6.1 overs.
Rauf gets Rohit. The first delivery from the pacer into his second over and the Indian captain hits it straight up in the air. Fakhar Zaman, who caught it initially, collides with Khushdil but the latter is able to hold onto the ball clean in the end and complete a bizarre catch. India, 54/1 after 5.1 overs.
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Sriram Veera: Of the numerous big hits that have already rained at Dubai, one six from KL Rahul stood out. It was a 143kmph bolt from Naseem Shah off the final ball of the third over, full and on the middle and leg line. Rahul stirred to play a wristy whip and that’s why that shot stood out. It could have been understandable had he whip-flicked it over wide midwicket or wide-long. It comes within the territory of that shot. MS Dhoni’s helicopter or Mohammad Azharuddin’s whips or any of the fluid big bat-swings over long-on from your regular garden-variety big hitter.
But this one flew over long-off, if any thing, or perhaps a tad straighter. Such has been the flurry of sixes that we still haven’t had a proper replay of it, except for a side-on angle.
Was it a conscious decision to go with the line of the ball, and not go across the line? But he chose the wristy-twirl to achieve it. It does give more power for a un-beefy batsman who doesn’t muscle, and also wristy-twirl can be instinctive of course. For a batsman, who is trying to find his way back into form after coming back into the team, it was some shot.
There is a Kevin Pietersen shot that comes to the memory, not quite a twirl but for the stunning way he smashed a Dale Styen outswinger, covering for the away swing and still managing to let his bat flow freely in that line. Likewise, for Rahul to whip pick-it over long-off is quite something.
Sandeep Dwivedi: What was the immediate impact of Rohit Sharma's throw caution-to-wind, stepping down the track strike over cover? Naseem Shah had a dry smile on his face, slip moved out and Rohit got a big confidence boost. A ball later he played the shot that his fans wait for - pick-up to square leg for a six. In the next over he lofted the other Pakistan pace jock straight. Even KL Rahul was inspired. Never ever has one shot meant so much for so many.
KL Rahul smashes Nawaz down the ground off his second delivery. Brings up the fifty partnership. This was much needed, not just for the team but for these two. 54/0 after five overs.
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