Asia Cup 2023 PAK vs IND highlights: Babar Azam-led Pakistan is scheduled to play on the 3rd match of the Super Fours in the Asia Cup 2023 against Rohit Sharma-led India.
| Match No | Asia Cup 2023, Super Four 3rd match |
| match | Pakistan vs India |
| Date | September 11, 2023 |
| Toss | Pakistan won the toss and opt to bowl |
| Venue | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Result | India won by 228 runs |
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Pakistan squad
Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf
India Squad
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wk), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
Asia Cup 2023 PAK vs IND Scoreboard
| Team | Scoreboard |
| India | 356/2 (50 ov) |
| Pakistan | 128/10 (32 ov) |
Asia Cup 2023 PAK vs IND highlights
India innings
The match was originally scheduled to be played on September 10. Winning the toss, Pakistan chose to bowl. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill opened for India while Shaheen Afridi opened the bowling attack. Rohit Sharma had a good start as he scored 56 runs on 49 balls and was sent out with Shadab Khan.
The other opener Shubman Gill scored 58 runs on 52 deliveries and was sent out by Shaheen Afridi. Virat Kohli and KL Rahul scored 8 and 17 runs respectively and the match was interrupted by rain and stopped with India scoring 147 runs losing 2 wickets on the first ball of the 25th over.
Then the match was interrupted due to rain and rescheduled to reserve day. Resuming the match, Kohli and KL Rahul had an impressive innings and had a partnership score of 233* runs which is said to be the highest partnership score in Asia Cup ODI games.
Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 122 runs on 94 deliveries including 9 boundaries and 3 sixes, while KL Rahul had an unbeaten 111 runs on 106 deliveries and was sent out with 12 boundaries and two sixes. By the end of 50 overs, India had scored 356 runs losing 2 wickets.
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Rohit Sharma (c) | c Faheem Ashraf b Shadab Khan | 56 | 49 | 77 | 6 | 4 | 114.28 |
| Shubman Gill | c Agha Salman b Shaheen Shah Afridi | 58 | 52 | 83 | 10 | 0 | 111.53 |
| Virat Kohli | not out | 122 | 94 | 147 | 9 | 3 | 129.78 |
| KL Rahul | not out | 111 | 106 | 141 | 12 | 2 | 104.7 |
Bowling
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | 10 | 0 | 79 | 1 | 7.9 | 27 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Naseem Shah | 9.2 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 5.67 | 32 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Faheem Ashraf | 10 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 7.4 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Haris Rauf | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 5.4 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Shadab Khan | 10 | 1 | 71 | 1 | 7.1 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | 5.4 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 9.17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Pakistan innings
With the huge target of 357 runs, Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq opened for Pakistan while Jasprit Bumrah opened the bowling attack. Imam-ul-Haq was sent out with 9 runs by Bumrah and Babar Azam’s dismissed with 10 runs by Hardik Pandya. With Fakhar Zaman dismissal with 27 runs by Kuldeep Yadav Pakistan is down to 47-3 on the 12th over of their innings.
Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed by KL Rahul with 2 runs, while Agha Salman and Iftikhar Ahmed scored 23 runs each and was sent out by Kuldeep Yadav. With Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf was injured during the match, the other batters were dismissed at regular intervals.
Kuldeep Yadav had scalped 5 wickets while Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Thakur dismissed one wicket each. By the end of 32nd overs, Pakistan scored 128 runs on losing all wickets.
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Fakhar Zaman | b Kuldeep Yadav | 27 | 50 | 98 | 2 | 0 | 54 |
| Imam-ul-Haq | c Shubman Gill b Bumrah | 9 | 18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Babar Azam (c) | b Pandya | 10 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 41.66 |
| Mohammad Rizwan † | c †Rahul b Thakur | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Agha Salman | lbw b Kuldeep Yadav | 23 | 32 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 71.87 |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | c & b Kuldeep Yadav | 23 | 35 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 65.71 |
| Shadab Khan | c Thakur b Kuldeep Yadav | 6 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Faheem Ashraf | b Kuldeep Yadav | 4 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | not out | 7 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 116.66 |
Bowling
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 5 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 3.6 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Mohammed Siraj | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 4.6 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Hardik Pandya | 5 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 3.4 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Shardul Thakur | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 8 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 3.12 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 5.2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Player of the match
Virat Kohli | India
I was going to ask you to keep the interview short, I’m very tired. I’m always prepared to help the team in different ways. Today, KL got a great start and my job was just to rotate strike. I take a lot of pride on trying to push for easy runs, pushing for a double is as easy as they come.
(On the reverse ramp boundary) Because I crossed the 100, there was a bit of respect for that shot. I don’t play shots like that and I looked very bad playing it. Me and KL are both conventional cricketers, we don’t try fancy stuff but we can get a lot of purchase through good cricket shots. Great partnership and good signs for Indian cricket.
Very happy for him to come back to ODI cricket in that manner. (On playing again tomorrow) I was pushing for those runs and happy for it, but I was thinking I need to play at 3 pm tomorrow. Luckily, we are Test players, I’ve played over a 100 Tests so I know how to come back and play the next day.
It was really humid out there, I’m 35 in November so I need to be taking care of that recovery as well (chuckles). A big shout out to the groundsmen from my side, I think they did a fabulous job.
