It was India’s first loss within the ongoing Asia Cup after Pakistan avenged its five-wicket defeat towards its subcontinent neighbour within the opening match.
All of a sudden, on Tuesday, India are in a must-win state of affairs towards Sri Lanka. Rohit Sharma-led workforce want to win the match to keep alive within the competitors.
Former India opener Virender Sehwag feels Pakistan have emerged because the agency favourites to win the Asia Cup after their win over India.
“If India lose one other match by probability, they’ll be out of the match. Pakistan have the benefit as a result of in the event that they lose one match and win one other, their web run price will take them to the ultimate as they’ve misplaced one match and received two. India have misplaced one and in the event that they lose one other, they’re out. So stress is on India,” Sehwag mentioned on Cricbuzz.
“Pakistan will play within the remaining after a very long time and have additionally overwhelmed India after a very long time within the Asia Cup. This could additionally be Pakistan’s 12 months,” he added.
On Sunday, Pakistan rode on Mohammad Rizwan’s successive half-century and Mohammad Nawaz’s 42 off simply 20 balls to arrange their highest profitable run-chase in a T20 towards India.
Rizwan scored 71 runs off 51 deliveries whereas Nawaz hit six fours and two sixes to dominate the center overs as Pakistan reached 182-5 with a ball to spare within the five-wicket win.
India’s prime three batters helped to hearth the side to 181-7 after Pakistan had received the toss and elected to area.
Iftikhar Ahmed completed off the sport with two runs off the penultimate delivery as skilled quick bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar was smacked for 19 runs in a vital nineteenth over which took the sport away from India.