Asia Cup 2022, India vs Pakistan Highlights: All-round Nawaz helps Pakistan beat India by 5 wickets in a thrilling Super 4 clash | Cricket News – Times of India

DUBAI: Ironically, unpredictability has been Pakistan’s biggest virtues in huge matches and large tournaments. On Sunday, they obtained one other sudden participant Mohammad Nawaz to spring a shock and stun India within the second thriller on the bounce between the 2 groups on this Asia Cup. Pakistan successful by 5 wickets with a ball to spare has left India weak within the Super 4s.
Chasing 182, the left-arm spinner got here out to bat at No. 4, after returning figures of 1/25 along with his left-arm spin, within the ninth over with the scoreboard studying 63/2. With Mohammad Rizwan batting like a rock on the different finish, Nawaz launched a brutal counter-attack on the Indian bowlers to attain a 20-ball 42, hitting six boundaries and two sixes in entrance of the wicket, and put India on the backfoot. He nullified India’s middle-over trump card Yuzvendra Chahal, milking him for 1/43 in his 4 overs.
As It Happened
Even as Rizwan fell for a 51-ball 71 moments to Pandya’s slower ball at long-off after Nawaz went the identical manner off Bhuvneshwar Kumar, the Indian staff cracked below stress. Arshdeep Singh dropped a sitter supplied by Asif Ali at short-third within the 18th over.

Needing 26 off 12, Khushdil Shah and Asif obtained caught into India’s most skilled seamer Bhuvneshwar, whose death-bowling talents obtained uncovered, to select up 19 runs off the nineteenth over. Arshdeep’s effort to make amends for the dropped catch was all the time going to be robust with simply seven within the financial institution.

Nawaz’s sterling present put Virat Kohli’s return to type within the shadow. Kohli turned again the clock with 60 off 44. The magical type which stored distancing itself from him in empty stadiums through the pandemic right here in UAE in 2020, got here again in entrance of a packed Dubai International Cricket Stadium towards fiercest of rivals.
Kohli’s innings could not come throughout as essentially the most astounding of T20 innings by way of statistics, however its significance within the bigger context is far better than serving to India put up a difficult 181/7. Perhaps he was crippled by the dearth of assist from the middle-order which undid all the nice work carried out by the top-three batters Rohit Sharma, Rahul and Kohli. As the power-packed middle-order of Suryakumar Yadav (13 off 10), Rishabh Pant (14 off 12), Hardik Pandya (0 off 2) and Deepak Hooda (16 off 14) fizzled out, Kohli couldn’t tee off. Hitting gaps and driving the fielding staff loopy along with his maverick-like working between wickets once more grew to become his go-to technique. That he hit simply 4 boundaries and one six stated how properly he maneuvered the sector. It was ironic that his innings ended whereas he tried to pinch a second run and an Asif Ali direct hit discovered him marginally in need of his crease.

Kohli took over as soon as Rohit perished for 28 off 16 and Rahul holed out at long-on off Shadab Khan for 28 off 20. Kohli has by no means been the quintessential muscle participant in T20s. His strengths, mockingly, have by no means trusted funky ramps or switch-hits. Sunday was classic Kohli.
Kohli obtained off the mark with a backfoot punch to mid-off off a Haris Rauf supply bowled at 151 kmph and signaled he had rediscovered his imperious contact earlier than the pandemic struck. And that nonchalant whip off a Mohammad Hasnain thunderbolt for a six over the mid-wicket fence screamed trademark Kohli.
Buoyed by a sterling present within the opening match, the uncooked tempo assault of Pakistan turned out to amp up the warmth with the ball. In flip, Rohit and Rahul feasted on the additional tempo supplied. The stand-out characteristic of the top-three’s batting on Sunday was the very fact each aggressive shot was hit in entrance of sq.—be it Rohit’s short-arm pulls over the mid-wicket or Rahul’s crisp punches over the 30-yard circle. The model of cricket promised over a yr was lastly on present with India’s captain and vice-captain opening the innings with 54-run stand in 5.1 overs.
You might see he was within the zone. Constantly speaking to his companions within the middle-order, gesturing what the bowlers have been making an attempt and punching his bat each time his accomplice obtained the ball away to the boundary. And when he sprinted again to the hazard finish when Deepak Hooda was already saying to the second run, you knew Kohli meant enterprise.