Incredible India!!! Invincible India completely dominates Pakistan in the World Cup. It is seventh time India win over Pakistan in the World Cup. In this world cup India showing again and again that how strong they are as a team. Everybody is contributing made the team effort to a good level. India carries their positivity; confidence and high spirit from the previous matches win here also and give a Pakistan a strong reply of the loss in Champion Trophy 2017 final.
A lot more talk about KL Rahul would be open the inning with Rohit Sharma after Shikhar Dhawan got injured against Australia and couldn’t play for 3 weeks. This is the first time when Rahul and Rohit would be open for India. Both India and Pakistan fans was crossing their fingers that their teams would do well in the game, also rain would be stay far and far away from the Old Trafford, Manchester. Pakistan won the toss and elected to field first. At first its look the decision was not in favor of India and Team India would face tough time.
Indian openers started well, on one side Rohit made a quick start and on the opposite Rahul had a slow and steady start. Rohit had completed his quick 50 in just 34 balls, fastest by him in ODI. KL Rahul optimizes the full opportunity he got and made a valuable 57 runs and scored a highest opening partnership of 136 runs against Pakistan in WC. Captain Kohli made again a strong remark against Pakistan as he has always carries a good record. With scoring 57th run he completed fastest 11,000 in ODI in 222 innings whereas Tendulkar completed in 276 innings. Kohli played another crucial inning of 77 runs and put India in command with Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma completed his 24 century in ODI and 2nd in this WC. Rohit made special 140 runs is his highest against Pakistan. India batted well and with good pace. How would be the weather in Manchester, the most discussed point. Would there be another washed out in this WC. Rain was just made a little hindrance in Indian innings in the 47 overs. Luckily it didn’t last long and passing shower finished quickly. Hardik Pandya was not looking as good as he was against Australia, struggling in the starting and later to score quickly he got out at 26, Vijay Shankar WC debutant for India and Kedar Jadhav both contributed in the end to take India 336 runs in their 50 overs. It’s a daunting total for Pakistan to chase.
Pakistan, who was down after a loss against Australia, was looking not in a great touch. Both openers Imam ul Haq and Fakhar Zaman was clearly struggling against Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah. Bhuvneshwar line and length was outstanding, he bowls in full command, but unfortunately for India, he got hamstring problem and had to leave the field for the rest of the match. Leaving the field in the middle over of Bhuvneshwar would get the wicket, who thinks that?? But that’s happen here as Captain Kohli had to bring Vijay Shankhar earlier for the bowling. On the first ball he got the wicket of Imam Ul Haq. Vijay Shankhar became the first Indian to take the wicket on the first delivery in the WC. Losing the 1st wicket on the score of 13, make Pakistan more cautious. Fakhar and Babar Azam both started playing cautiously and slowly making a nice partnership and try to give team some platform to chase a big total. As they taking strokes freely and looking dangerous for India, Indian chinaman spinner Kuldeep Yadav bowled Babar Azam with a beautiful delivery. The boy is some special class, the kind of delivery he bowled to Babar simply outstanding. Kuldeep not stop here, in his very next over he got out Fakhar also with another beautiful deliver. More to this Pakistan lost his two best batsmen Hafeez and Shoaib Malik got out by Hardik Pandya on the consecutive delivery. Suddenly, Pakistan was looking out of the game in the span of just 4 overs. At one stage Fakhar and Babar was batting well on 117/1 in 23.5 overs and rattled down to 129/5 in 27 overs. They lost 4 wickets for 12 runs in just 4 overs. India commanded the situation very well and brilliant captaincy by Kohli. Full marks to him the way he shuffled his bowlers and field setting. Captain Sharfaraz and Imad Wasim were tried to build a partnership but that’s not work it out as Vijay Shankar again came into action and bowled Sharfaraz on the score of 35, Pakistan were 165/6. Rain again halted the match in the 35 over, this time for a longer duration. As a result overs and target were revised according to D/L method. Revised target for Pakistan was 302 in 40 overs, looking far more impossible to achieve. It’s now just a formality to complete the match. India was looking clearly winner as the situation. Imad and Shadab were tried to score as much as possible, Indian wrap up the formality quickly and Pakistan were 212/6 in 40 overs. India won convincingly by 89 runs.
Team India is still unbeatable in the tournament. India is just clicking in every channel and department. They played some brilliant cricket all round, batsman bowlers as well as fielding was high class. Kohli is looking in full aggression with his captaincy in this WC, taking proactive and positive decisions. He is always on his fielders asking for more tightness in the field; don’t allow any loose gap in the fielding. Pakistan was looking clearly out of touch. Before the toss, both captains want to field first as its overcast conditions, but Pakistani bowlers didn’t able to take the benefit from the conditions, giving short balls and way off line and length allowed Indians to score freely. No one looked in proper shape except Amir. Later, it was looking it’s a Good Toss to Loose for Kohli.
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