Tag: Asia Cup 2022

Suryakumar Yadav's fireworks in the last seven overs and combined with Virat Kohli's 31st T20I fifty propelled India to reaching a daunting 192/2 against Hong Kong in Asia Cup Group A match at the Dubai International Stadium on Wednesday.

India and Pakistan have been fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate in their Group A match of the Asia Cup 2022, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday.

The leg-spinner, who had started the match with 112 scalps in this format, picked up 3/22, including the wickets of Mushfiqur Rahim, Afif Hossain and Mahmudullah, to go to 115 wickets and climb to No. 2 in the men's T20I bowling charts.

With their back-to-back wins against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Afghanistan became the first team to make it to the Super Fours.

India-Pakistan Match In 2022 Asia Cup In Dubai - Unforgettable Images

India-Pakistan Match - Indian Fans Go Wild After India Victory

Video: Celebrations Erupt After India Defeat Pakistan In Asia Cup Match

India skipper Rohit Sharma was a pleased man after India won an absorbing Asia Cup Group A match against Pakistan at a packed Dubai International Stadium, saying that he would take this five-wicket win any day over usual wins.

On a chase of 148 on a two-paced pitch, India were needing 59 runs off the last six overs. From there, Pandya (33 not out off 17 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (35) shared a stand of 52 runs off just 29 balls.

Captain Babar Azam oozed gorgeousness while straight driving with full face of the bat for a brace of boundaries through mid-off. In an attempt to pull off a Bhuvneshwar bouncer, Azam sent a top-edge to short fine leg.

India captain Rohit Sharma has won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Asia Cup 2022 Group A opener against Pakistan at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday.

India and Pakistan have met nine times in T20Is while India have a superior record of 7-2 over their neighbour

Virat Kohli’s Next 100 | What Sourav Ganguly Said On Kohli’s Comeback

Ahead of the match, in an interview on BCCI.TV, Kohli said that he is the kind of person who wakes up and feels like let’s see what the day has for him.

As far as India is concerned, absence of experienced pacer Jasprit Bumrah, and to an extent T20 specialist bowler Harshal Patel, would be a challenge.