Ghulam Mustafa Azuz
DUBAI: India defeats Pakistan by seven wickets in Asia Cup 2025.
Within the sixth match of the Asia Cup T20 event 2025, India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets.
The high-voltage match of Group A within the Asia Cup T20 event was performed in Dubai, the place Pakistan received the toss in opposition to arch-rivals India and determined to bat first.
Pakistan’s batting line-up in opposition to India was badly shaken, the highest order went out of order, the nationwide crew was in a position to give India a goal of 128 runs to win.
The Pakistani crew scored 127 runs for the lack of 9 wickets within the stipulated 20 overs whereas enjoying first.
Pakistan received the toss and batted first and scored 127 runs for the lack of 9 wickets within the stipulated 20 overs.
Pakistan made a really disappointing begin to their innings, with opener Saim Ayub getting caught by Jasprit Bumrah off Hardik Pandya within the first over and returning to the pavilion with out scoring any runs.
Mohammad Haris, who got here out on the one-down crease, couldn’t keep on the pitch for lengthy and left after scoring solely three runs within the second over. Thus, two Pakistani batsmen had returned to the pavilion with a complete rating of six in two overs.
After this, Fakhar Zaman and Sahibzada Farhan confirmed accountable batting and took the crew’s complete rating to 45 runs, however on the fourth ball of the seventh over, Fakhar Zaman was caught making an attempt to play a boundary, he performed an innings of 17 runs.
The Pakistani batsmen had been shedding wickets one after the opposite.
Captain Salman Ali Agha was out for 3, Hassan Nawaz for 5 and Mohammad Nawaz for zero.
Opener Sahibzada Farhan performed an extended innings, scoring 40 runs in 44 balls with the assistance of three sixes and a 4 earlier than being caught by Kuldeep Yadav’s ball to Hartik Pandya.
After them, Faheem Ashraf was out for 11 and Sufyan Muqim for 10 runs, whereas Abrar Ahmed Safar and Shaheen Shah Afridi remained not out on 33 runs.
Shaheen Shah Afridi’s glorious batting within the final overs of the innings performed a significant position in setting the goal of 128. He scored 33 runs in 16 balls with the assistance of 4 sixes and was not out.
For India, Kuldeep Yadav took three wickets, Jasprit Bumrah and Axar Patel took two wickets every, whereas Hartik Pandya and Varun Chakravardy took one wicket every.
India began chasing the goal when openers Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma scored 22 runs with out loss within the first two overs.
India’s first loss got here when Shubman Gill was caught by Mohammad Haris off Saim Ayub’s bowling on the final ball of the second over, scoring 10 runs.
India’s second wicket fell within the type of opener Abhishek Sharma, who caught Faheem Ashraf off Saim Ayub’s bowling for a person rating of 31.
Tilak Verma additionally fell sufferer to Saim Ayub after scoring 31 runs.
