IND vs PAK / India's biggest win over Pakistan - defeated by 228 runs, Kuldeep took 5 wickets

IND vs PAK: India has achieved the biggest victory over Pakistan so far. The team defeated the Pakistani team by 228 runs in the Super-4 match of One Day Asia Cup. Earlier, this record was 140 runs, which India made in 2008 at Mirpur ground. Batting first after losing the toss at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the Indian team scored 356 runs for two wickets in 50 overs. In reply, Pakistan team could score only 128/8 runs in 32 overs. Two batsmen of the team did not play due to injury.

First: Kohli's fastest 13 thousand runs, 47th century also Indian batsman Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 13 thousand runs. He left behind the record of legendary Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin played 321 innings to score 13 thousand runs, while Virat achieved this feat in 266 innings. Not only this, Virat scored the fastest 47 ODI centuries. Sachin scored his 47th ODI century in his 435th innings, while Kohli scored his 47th century in his 266th innings.

Second: India's biggest win over Pakistan in the Asia Cup. This is the biggest win of the Indian team over Pakistan in the Asia Cup. Earlier, India had defeated Pakistan by 54 runs in the 1984 Asia Cup at Sharjah.

Third: Kohli-Rahul's biggest partnership of Asia Cup Virat Kohli and KL Rahul broke the record of the biggest partnership of Asia Cup. They made an unbeaten partnership of 233 runs on 194 balls for the third wicket. Earlier, Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed had made an opening partnership of 224 runs against India in 2012.

Could not break the partnership of Kohli-Rahul

At the beginning of the 2-day Super-4 match, Pakistani captain Babar Azam made a mistake while bowling after winning the toss. Not only this, the team's strikers failed to stop the Indian openers. Rohit-Gill also beat Shadab-Shaheen, although Shadab dismissed Rohit and Shaheen dismissed Gill.

After that, Kohli at number-3 and Rahul at number-4 did not let Team India's wicket fall. Pakistani bowlers failed to break this pair. Kohli-Rahul pair made an unbeaten 233-run partnership taking the score to 356.

In the reply innings, Pakistan's batting order appeared to be under pressure of a big target. The team lost wickets at regular intervals. The situation was such that no batsman could score 30+. Kuldeep's spin bowling worked as a man finisher.

Pakistan scored 43 runs in Powerplay-1

Pakistan had a bad start while chasing the big target of 357 runs. The team lost the wicket of Imam-ul-Haq in the 5th over itself. Imam could score only 9 runs, he was caught by Jasprit Bumrah at second slip at the hands of Shubman Gill. Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman, who came at number-3, also had trouble in the initial overs. However, the team scored 43 runs at the loss of one wicket in 10 overs.

Pakistan's wickets fell like this

• 1st: Imam-ul-Haq (9 runs): Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl from round the wicket in the fifth over. He bowled the second ball out-swinger outside the off stump on a good length. Imam went to defend, but the ball touched the outer edge of the bat and went into the hands of Shubman Gill standing at second slip.
• Second: Babar Azam (10 runs): Pandya bowled on the fourth ball of the 11th over. Could not play the good length inswing ball and the ball went away, uprooting the stump.
• Third: Mohammad Rizwan (2 runs): Shardul Thakur got caught by wicketkeeper KL Rahul on the fourth ball of the 12th over. The good length ball swinging out from the middle stump took the outer edge of the bat and went on the gloves of the wicketkeeper.
• Fourth: Fakhar Zaman (27 runs): Kuldeep bowled on the second ball of the 20th over. Wanted to play a big shot on a fuller length ball on the middle stump and missed it.
• Fifth: Agha Salman (23 runs): LBW on the last ball of the 24th over.
• Sixth: Shadab Khan (6 runs): Kuldeep got caught by Thakur on the fourth ball of the 28th over.
• Seventh: Iftikhar Ahmed (23 runs): Caught and bowled by Kuldeep on the third ball of the 30th over.
• Eighth: Faheem Ashraf (4 runs): Kuldeep bowled Faheem on the last ball of the 32nd over.

Team India equaled the highest score against Pakistan

India has equaled its highest score in ODI against Pakistan. Earlier, Team India had scored 356/9 against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam in 2005.

This is also India's biggest score against Pakistan in the Asia Cup. Earlier, India had scored 330 runs at Mirpur ground in 2012. Kohli played an excellent inning of 183 runs in that match.

For India, Virat Kohli scored the highest unbeaten 122, KL Rahul scored 111 not out, Shubman Gill scored 58 and captain Rohit Sharma scored 56 runs. Kohli scored his 47th ODI century, while KL Rahul completed his sixth century.

Rahul-Virat made double century partnership

Virat Kohli scored the 47th ODI century of his career. He played an unbeaten inning of 122 runs on 94 balls. KL Rahul has scored the sixth ODI century of his career. He played an unbeaten inning of 111 runs on 106 balls. Both also made a not out partnership of 233 runs.

Kohli scored a century on 84 balls

Virat Kohli scored a century on 84 balls against Pakistan. He scored the 47th century of his ODI career by taking a single off Shaheen Afridi's ball. This was his 77th century in all three formats, he also has 29 centuries in Test and one century in T-20.

As soon as Kohli took the 98th run in the innings, he also completed 13 thousand runs in his ODI career. He became the second Indian to score 13 thousand runs for India. Only Sachin Tendulkar has been able to score more runs than him. Sachin has 18426 runs in his name in ODI.

Rahul scored a century on the 100th ball

KL Rahul scored a century against Pakistan. He scored a century with his bat in ODI cricket after two and a half years. Rahul last played an innings of 108 runs against England on 26 March 2021. Rahul also scored a century for the first time against Pakistan. Apart from Pakistan, he has scored 1 century each against England, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

Kohli-Rahul rescued the team from shocks

Virat Kohli and KL Rahul made a century partnership for the third wicket. Both have made an unbeaten partnership of 233 runs on 194 balls. Indian captain Rohit Sharma was out on the score of 121 and Shubman Gill was out on the score of 123.

Rohit and Gill were out after scoring half centuries

Before the match was stopped on the first day on Sunday, Team India, playing first, had scored 147 runs for two wickets in 24.1 overs. Virat Kohli is unbeaten on 8 and KL Rahul is unbeaten on 17 runs.

Shubman Gill was out after scoring 58 runs. Shaheen Shah Afridi got him caught by Salman Ali Aga. Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma (56 runs) was caught by Shadab Khan at the hands of Faheem Ashraf.

This is how India's wickets fell

First (Rohit Sharma- 56 runs): Shadab Khan bowled the fourth ball of the 17th over with a fuller length flighted. Rohit was caught by Faheem Ashraf at long off.

Second (Shubhman Gill- 58 runs): Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled the fifth ball of the 18th over slower on good length. Shubman was caught by Salman Ali Aga on the covers.

Playing-11 of both the teams...

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav.

Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Salman Ali Aga, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf.