Newspunjab
22 sep 2025
Ind vs Pak Match:The Indian team has maintained its winning campaign in the Super Four match of the Asia Cup 2025 and has given a crushing defeat to Pakistan for the second time in 8 days. India defeated Pakistan by six wickets. India won the match with seven balls to spare. The target of 172 runs was not small. However, the opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill turned the match in India’s favor inside the powerplay. Abhishek’s storm chased the Pakistani bowlers. Abhishek and Gill laid the foundation for Team India’s victory by taking India beyond 100 runs in just nine overs.
Earlier, batting first after losing the toss, Pakistan scored 171 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs, giving India a target of 172 runs to win. India had to pay the price for their poor fielding, which resulted in four easy catches being dropped. Abhishek dropped two, Kuldeep and Gill one each.
Sahibzada Farhan was given life on the third ball and took advantage of it to score a half-century. Sahibzada Farhan scored 58 runs in 45 balls. Finally, Salman Agha scored 17 runs in 13 balls, and Ashraf scored 20 runs in 8 balls to take Pakistan past 170. For India, Dubey took two wickets, while Hardik and Kuldeep took one wicket each.Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bowl. Both the teams came in with two changes. Moreover, once again, both the captains did not shake hands after the toss. Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakravarthy are returning to Team India, while Pakistan has decided to drop Hasan Nawaz and Khushdil Shah.
