Pakistan’s pacers seem to know their race. Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Mohammad Amir are keeping the Indian batsmen standing. Before 100 runs, 7 Indian batsmen returned to the dressing room after hitting Pakistan’s pacers.
As of writing this report, India’s total after 15 overs is 97 for 7. Hardik Pandya remains unbeaten on 0 runs and Arshdeep Singh on 1 run.
The start of the game was delayed by an hour due to rain at the Nassau International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Before that, the captains of the two teams took a toss. Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss. He decided to field, invited Indian captain Rohit Sharma to bat.
Then when the rain stops, one over is played. India scored 8 runs without losing any wicket in this over. Then it rained again.
After 25 minutes of waiting, the game started again. Virat Kohli got out on the field (3 off 4 balls). He was caught by Usman Khan off the ball of Nasim Shah. In the next over, Rohit Sharma was shown the way by Shaheen Shah Afridi. Haris Rauf became the Indian captain.
Then Rishabh Pant made a partnership of 39 runs with Akshar Patel. Patel scored 20 runs off 18 balls when Nasim Shah was bowled and the pair broke. Later Pant and Suryakumar Yadav made another partnership of 31 runs. Haris Rauf did not allow Surya to score more than 7 runs (8 balls).
After that the rest of the cricketers basically joined the procession. After that, Shivam Dubey (3 from 9 balls) gave away his wicket without adding 6 runs to the team. He followed through with Nasim Shah.
Pant, who brought India close to 100 by keeping one end, had to finally return before his fifty (42 off 31). He was caught by Babar on Amir’s ball.
Amir dismissed Ravindra Jadeja (1 ball 0) in the very next ball. In other words, India lost 7 wickets for 96 runs.
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