India took an early wicket within the first over as Pakistan’s opening batter Saim Ayub was despatched packing through the high-stakes Asia Cup on the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
Pakistan are batting after skipper Salman Ali Agha gained the toss and put India to ball first.
An India-Pakistan cricket match is all the time a blockbuster, however feelings are working even increased because the nuclear-armed neighbours engaged in a four-day navy battle earlier this yr.
Even earlier than the clashes in Could, which practically escalated right into a full-blown warfare, bilateral cricket ties had been suspended. The arch-rivals now play one another solely in multi-team tournaments.
India, the reigning 20-over world champions, are agency favourites to retain their Asia Cup title and are decided to not let geopolitics derail their marketing campaign.
India seem by far the strongest facet within the eight-team event, having bolstered themselves with the collection of tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and high order batter Shubman Gill.
They had been ruthless of their nine-wicket demolition of the United Arab Emirates, whom they routed for 57 in 13.1 overs earlier than returning to chase down the goal in 27 balls on Thursday.
Pakistan additionally opened their account with a straightforward victory towards Oman however their batting has been reasonably inconsistent.
Pakistan are with out former skippers Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan however will take coronary heart from profitable a T20 tri-series in UAE, additionally involving Afghanistan, earlier than heading into the Asia Cup.
Taking part in XIs
Pakistan: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Mohammad Haris (wk), Fakhar Zaman, Salman Ali Agha (c), Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem and Abrar Ahmed.
India: Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah.
Head-to-head
Pakistan and India have come face-to-face 13 instances in T20Is, with the Males in Blue dominating the head-to-head report with 10 victories, whereas Pakistan emerged triumphant thrice.
Nevertheless, of their earlier three conferences on the aforementioned venue, Pakistan maintain the sting, profitable two video games, together with their historic win through the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2021.
- Matches: 13
- India: 10
- Pakistan: 3
Type Information
Pakistan and India enter the high-octane fixture with comparable momentum of their favour as they each have only one defeat of their final 5 accomplished T20Is respectively.
India kicked off their Asia Cup 2025 marketing campaign with a thumping nine-wicket victory over United Arab Emirates (UAE), whereas Pakistan crushed Oman by 93 runs.
Pakistan: W, W, W, L, W (most up-to-date first)
India: W, W, W, L, W
