Asia Cup: India beat Pakistan in convincing fashion
India won the match by nine wickets.
(Dunya News) – Openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan secured a comfortable win for India as they went for massive boundaries in the third match of the Super Four Stage of Asia Cup in Dubai Sunday.
Dhawan pulled a century (114 on 100 balls) before he was run-out by Shoaib Malik. Captain Sharma (111 not-out) reached a major career milestone.
India won the match by nine wickets with 63 balls remaining.
Pakistan were once again short of a fighting total as they managed 237-7 in their 50 overs despite an attractive half century by Shoaib Malik who piled up 78 runs.
Malik scored a 90-ball 78 with four boundaries and two sixes, but India kept a tight check on Pakistan progress after they won the toss and elected to bat.
Pakistan lost Imam-ul-Haq (ten), Fakhar Zaman (31) and Babar Azam (run out for nine) in an unimpressive start to their innings before Malik and skipper Sarfraz Ahmed added 107 for the fourth wicket.
Sarfraz scored a slow 66-ball 44 with only two boundaries before he became one of two Kuldeep Yadav s wicket who finished with 2-41.
Pakistan s final over score depended on Malik who crucially fell in the 44th over, caught behind off a leg-side edge off Jasprit Bumrah.
Asif Ali smashed two sixes in his 21-ball 30 before he was bowled by leg-spinner Yuzvndra Chahal who took 2-38 in his nine overs.
Bumran finished with 2-29 in his ten overs.
Pakistan had won the toss and opted to bat first against unchanged Indian side in continent’s premier ODI competition.
In the league staged, India had crushed Pakistan by eight wickets.
Pakistan made two changes as Amir and Shadab returned while Usman Shanwari and Haris Sohail were rested.
Pakistan: 1 Fakhar Zaman, 2 Imam-ul-Haq, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), 6 Asif Ali, 7 Shadab Khan, 8 Mohammad Nawaz, 9 Shaheen Afridi, 10 Hasan Ali, 11 Mohammad Amir
India: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Ambati Rayudu, 4 MS Dhoni (wk), 5 Dinesh Karthik, 6 Kedhar Jadhav, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
