INDvsPAK is a much anticipated match where all the people worldwide watch this match. Their rivalry is known by everyone and sometimes it shows into the match also.
The high pressure match that puts everyone’s heart stops will definitely be the high voltage match of the Asia Cup. It will be India’s first match in the Asia Cup while Pakistan won the inaugural match against Nepal by a huge margin of 238 runs.
Indian Team Analysis:
It is very much expected that the skipper Rohit Sharma will open along with the young lad Shubman Gill. Gill with his recent past performance looks great and must be eager to showcase his skill in this tournament for the very first time. Whereas Rohit had a great record against Pakistan in his last 5 ODIs where he scored 4 half centuries against the arch rival.
Virat Kohli also gets back his form and again he will be dangerous for his opponent. Also his knock from last year’s T20 World Cup, where he clinched the win from the Pakistan’s mouth was one of his great innings he himself considers. Shreyas Iyer who returns from the injury is India’s highly valuable asset at number 4. He might be considered before Suryakumar Yadav whose ODI record was not so good.
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Ishan Kishan was the Player of the Series against West Indies in the ODIs just before the Asia Cup. he is also looking with his top notch form and his hard hitting skills are all known. Also he might be considered before Sanju Samson due to his past performances. Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja are the two pillars of all rounders who will support the Indian team with both bowling and batting.
Jasprit Bumrah who makes his comeback with the Ireland series is once again focused to show his death yorkers against the opponents. He will be well supported by Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj. Siraj who was ranked number 1 at one point drops to the 4th spot. Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel are the two slow left arm bowlers and will definitely want to turn things around according to them.
Pakistan Team Analysis:
Pakistan already won the 1st match by a huge margin and they are kind of a safe spot to reach the next round. Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq will open the innings. Fakhar might be the factor of worry as he was scoring pretty low scores at the top order. Captain Babar Azam will come at number 3 and his top performance is still going and he also showed his brilliant knock against Nepal and hit his second best ODI score.
Still Babar couldn’t score a half century against their arch rivals and has a pretty low average (31.60) against Indians, which is one of his lowest among the ICC nations. Mohammad Rizwan will again be seen wearing the gloves behind the stumps. He can also show good knocks against India and he also wants to improve his record in the ODIs.
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Iftikhar Ahmed must be pretty well boosted as he hit his first century in the internationals against Nepal in the first match of the Asia Cup. He is also the 4th fastest from his side to score a century. For which he took 67 balls. Agha Salman. Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan will once again be the key all rounders from their side.
The trio of Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah pace attack which is now a times dominating and will definitely try to do the same against Indian, especially Shaheen will be key as Rohit and Virat have low averages against the left fast arm bowlers in the recent past.
Pitch Report:
Match will be played at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Sri Lanka. This pitch is famous mostly for batters and a high scoring match is considered. But rain might obstruct the match in between, as it is expected that more than 80 percent chances are of rain and this will definitely affect the match. Wind will also blow with quite a great speed.
INDvsPAK Asia Cup Comparison:
India and Pakistan met 17 times against each other in this tournament. In which India had an upper hand over Pakistan and won 9 matches whereas Pakistan won 6 matches.
India Probable Playing 11:
Rohit Sharma ©, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.
Pakistan Probable Playing 11:
Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam ©, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah.