The intense bowling attack from Indian bowlers made Pakistan’s middle order collapse in the World Cup encounter at Ahmedabad.
Pakistan middle-order collapse against India in World Cup
India is scheduled to play in the 12th ICC World Cup 2023 match against their arch-rivals Pakistan on October 14 at Narendra Modi Stadium. Winning the toss, India chose to bowl where Indian bowlers sent out batters with low figures and collapsed the middle order.
Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq opened the innings while Jasprit Bumrah opened the bowling attack. Shafique was sent out by Siraj for 20 runs while Imam-ul-Haq was sent out with 36 runs on 38 deliveries by Hardik Pandya.
Babar Azam was impressive as he scored 50 runs and was sent out by Siraj while Rizwan scored 49 runs and was sent out by Bumrah. With the dismissal of Babar Azam and Rizwan, Pakistan is down to four wickets scoring 162 runs.
Other batters were sent out with low figures as Indian bowlers proved to attack Pakistan batters with their intense bowling spells. Indian bowlers Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, and Ravindra Jadeja were able to scalp two wickets each which helped India to fold Pakistan for low scores.
Indian bowlers were terrific during the match as they dismissed 8 wickets, giving only 36 runs, considered one of the Worst batting collapses for Pakistan in ODIs.
With a target of 192, India started their innings where the skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill opened the innings. The young batter who made his World Cup debut in the match was sent out with 16 runs by Shaheen Afridi. With Virat Kohli’s dismissal for 16 runs, India lost two wickets in the 10th over scoring 79 runs.
Rohit Sharma was impressive in the match as he scored 86 runs on 63 deliveries, including 6 boundaries and 6 sixes. He was dismissed by Shaheen Afridi on the 22nd over.
Pakistan has faced one of the worst batting collapses in the match against India. The batting collapse against the West Indies in 1993 remains the top as they were folded for 43 runs. They lost 8 wickets scoring only 32 runs at Cape Town.
Another batting collapse Pakistan faced during the match against Sri Lanka in Colombo where they lost 8 wickets scoring 33 runs.
Worst batting collapses for Pakistan in ODIs
- 32/8 vs WI Cape Town 1993 (11/2 – 43/10)
- 33/8 vs SL Colombo RPS 2012 (166/2 – 199/10)
- 36/8 vs Ind Ahmedabad 2023 (155/2 – 191/10)
