India vs Pakistan Highlights, ICC World Cup 2023: India defeat Pakistan by 7 wickets

India vs Pakistan Highlights, ICC World Cup 2023: India stands on the top of the Point Table

India vs Pakistan Highlights, ICC World Cup 2023: India thrash Pakistan by 7 wickets to maintain its supremacy. The Rohit Sharma-led Indian team secured India’s 8th World Cup victory against Pakistan. This victory marked India’s third successive win in the ongoing World Cup, taking them to the top of the standings after wins against Australia and Afghanistan in their previous encounters.

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India have won the toss and have opted to field. India makes one change; Gill is back in place of Ishan Kishan.

Teams:

India (Playing XI):

Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

Pakistan (Playing XI):

Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf

India vs Pakistan Highlights, World Cup 2023: Pakistan Innings

Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq made a steady start in the ICC World Cup match against India. India’s bowlers started on a good note as Mohammed Siraj dismissed Abdullah Shafique, and Hardik Pandya took out Imam-ul-Haq to provide a strong start to the team.

Indian bowlers dominated the game completely as they triggered a collapse in Pakistan’s innings. The Babar Azam played well till 30 overs, but as pacer Mohammed Siraj ended the big partnership between Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan, the batting collapsed. There was a good partnership of 82 runs for the third wicket between Babar and Rizwan, Babar scored 50 runs dismissed by Mohammed Siraj.

Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Saud Shakeel and Iftikhar Ahmed to put Pakistan batters under pressure, and then Jasprit Bumrah clinched Muhammad Rizwan and Shadab Khan’s wickets. Pakistan’s batting is collapsing under pressure as Indian bowlers continue to clinch wickets. Ravindra Jadeja dismissed both Hasan Ali and Haris Rauf. Bumrah took 2/19 in seven overs, and Kuldeep picked 2/35 in 10 overs as Pakistan crashed from 155/2 (29.3 overs) to 191 all out in 42.5 overs. Apart from Kuldeep and Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Siraj, and Ravindra Jadeja all got two wickets each.

In ODI World Cup, five bowlers picked two wickets each in an innings:

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Ind vs Pak Ahmedabad 2023

Pakistan Scorecard

India vs Pakistan Highlights, ICC World Cup 2023: India Innings

Team India started the 192-run chase on a great note as opener Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill smashed boundaries. But Shubman Gill appears furious for giving away his wicket when Shaheen Afridi dismissed him, scoring 16 runs from 11 balls, including 4 boundaries.

Rohit Sharma missed out on his century as Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi dismissed him on 85. Hasan Ali dismissed Virat Kohli to end the big partnership, and Shreyas Iyer joined his skipper to continue the 192-run chase. KL Rahul also joined the chase with Shreyas Iyer.

Shreyas Iyer provided the finishing touches to get his half-century with a boundary, which was also the winning run, finishing unbeaten on 53 off 62 balls. India leads the table now with six points, ahead of New Zealand on net run-rate, after three straight wins. Now India stands on the top. Pakistan, after their first loss of the tournament, has four points from three games and is fourth in the points table.

India Scorecard

Looking at the current stats, both India and Pakistan have played two matches each in this ICC Men’s World Cup tournament and won them both. This is the eighth meeting between India and Pakistan in 50-over World Cups. While in World Cups, India won all the 7 ODIs. In T20Is, India won 5, Pakistan won 1, and one resulted in a tie.