India vs Pakistan Score HIGHLIGHTS: Rain Plays Spoilsport; India, Pakistan Asia Cup Clash Ends Without A Result
IND vs PAK Highlights: India, Pakistan shared points after rain played spoilsport in Pallekele.
That's it then from our coverage of this game. It was a shame that we couldn't get a full match and it had to end without a result. Next up in Asia Cup 2023 is the match betweeen Afghanistan and Bangladesh on Sunday (September 3). Thank you for joining us. Good night. For latest news from India and around the world, stay tuned to ABP LIVE.
Here is how the points table stands after this called off game.
Pakistan become first team to qualify for Super Four of Asia Cup 2023.
The cut off time for a 20-over game was 10:27 pm but the ground staff needed at least 45 minutes to make the ground ready for a game after the rain had stopped and it's still drizzling at the venue which is why the players shook hands. Pakistan now have 3 points from 2 matches while India have one point from this game before they take on Nepal on September 4.
Seems like it will be a NO RESULT! India and Pakistan share points as rain does not allow Pakistan's chase to begin after India posted 266 in their first innings.
Match must start by 10:27pm in order to have a minimum of a 20-over contest
Minutes after the inspection and visuals of Indian players warming up, drizzle returns and covers are back on.
India vs Pakitsan Score LIVE: The umpires are on the field for an inspection.
So far over hour and a half of game time has been lost. Inspection at 09:00 pm (IST).
Covers from the main square are off. We should have a curtailed game here from the looks of it.
Covers are being taken off so some good news. DLS Revised Targets- 254 in 45 overs, 239 in 40 overs, 203 in 30 overs and 155 in 20 overs.
The DLS might well come into play and that means advantage to Pakistan.
Meanwhile, it's raining at the Pallekele Stadium and the entire stadium has been covered. No overs lost yet but it will take some time before match resumes.
All 10 wickets falling to pace for the first time in Asia Cup. And it's this famed trio of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf who has managed to achieve this.
WICKET! India are all out. Bumrah's nice little cameo comes to an end. India manage 266.
WICKET! Kuldeep Yadav goes back. India 9 down. Kuldeep has edged that to the keeper. Second one of the night for Naseem. India- 261/9 after 48.2 overs. Siraj and Bumrah and 10 balls remaining in the innings.
Rauf will bowl the 47th and 49th. Afridi has one over reamaining and so does Naseem.
Bumrah with an aerial stroke down the ground for a boundary off Afridi and 250 is up. This is surely going to be an interesting game from here.
2 wickets in the over from Afridi's 44th, followed by wicket off the first ball of Naseem's 45th. What a dramatic collapse again for India. India- 242/8 in 44.1 overs.
WICKET! Another one goes back and Shardul departs first ball of the 45th over.
WICKET and Jadeja goes back too for 14. Afridi again, strikes in the same over. What a match he is having. India- 242/7 after 44 overs.
Shardul Thakur replaces Pandya. Both set batters out for India. Pakistan can pull things a little bit here.
Should be the famed Pak pace trio till the end of the innings now. Afridi bowling the 44th over and it's a WICKET! Hardik Pandya is out first ball off a slower one. IND- 239/6 in 43.1 overs. Hardik goes for 87.
Naseem Shah to Jadeja and Pandya. We are into the 41st over. What a contest this has been. But India find themselves in a strong position at this moment.
Hardik Pandya on the attack. 3 boundaries off the 40th over being bowled by Rauf. IND: 221/5 after 40 overs.
Ravindra Jadeja replaces Kishan.
WICKET!! Against the run of play, Rauf strikes. He has got rid of Kishan to break a 138-run stand. The southpaw goes back for 82 off 81. IND-204/5 in 37.3 Overs.
Fifty for Hardik Pandya too. What an innings from the batting all-rounder. 112 of the partnership already. IND- 178/4 after 38 overs.
India- 168/4 after 33 overs.
SIX! It's Kishan with the second one of the evening himself, off Nawaz in the third ball of the 33rd over, down the ground for a maximum.
Partnership worth 83 off 96. IND: 149/4 after 30 overs.
Shadab from the other end, replaces Shaheen. And that's fifty from Kishan off 54 balls. He gets a standing ovation from his teammates for a fine knock in a pressure situation, coming from number 5 which is not his preferred position.
Agha Salman into the attack. Another spinning option.
India have batted well against the spin and that has been the difference after those early wickets.
7 runs off the 26th over being bowled by Nawaz. India- 134/4 after 26 overs.
IND: 127/4 after 25 overs.
Shaheen Shah Afridi back for another spell.
After 24 overs, India- 121/4. Hardik Pandya- 25*, Ishan Kishan- 43*
IND: 117/4 after 23 overs.
Fifty of the partnership comes up for the fifth wicket. Kishan the aggressor while Pandya hasn't been bad either.
IND- 102/4 after 20 overs.
100 up for India in the 20th over. Kishan's counter-attacking innings has kept India in the game.
IND: 94/4 after 19 overs. Hardik Pandya- 10 off 11, Ishan Kishan- 30 off 33.
Two spinners bowling in tandem at the moment. Mohammad Nawaz bowling along with Shadab.
Hardik Pandya the new man in for India. After 15 overs. India -72/4.
WICKET!! Rauf gets his second and it's Gill who departs after his 32-ball 10. Edge and the stumps are rattled. India- 66/4 after 14.1 overs.
END OF OVER 14. IND: 66/3. 3 off the first over from the spinner. Shubman Gill- 10* off 31, Ishan Kishan- 13* off 15.
Spin for the first time in this match as Shadab Khan is introduced into the attack.
India vs Pakistan | Asia Cup 2023: IND: 63/3 after 13 overs. A lucky boundary there off the edge of Kishan. 5 from that Naseem Shah over.
SIX! The first maximum of the day and it comes of the bat of the southpaw off Haris Rauf. He is not holding back as he latches on to the width on the off side for a six towards third man-point region.
Live Action resumes in Pallekele. Onus on Gill and Kishan to put India's innings back on track.
Rain returns again. India- 51/3 in 11.2 overs. Players are going off. Last time rain helped the Pakistan bowlers and it is expected to be a similar scenario this time around. Shubman Gill- 6* off 24, Ishan Kishan-2* off 6.
END OF Overs 11. India- 51/3. Rauf to continue.
End of Overs 10. India-48/3. Naseem Shah back into the attack. Ishan Kishan the new man in for India.
WICKET! Iyer (14) who was looking good has to walk back. He has hit that pull straight to midwicket. Rauf gets a wicket. India- 48/3 in 9.5 Overs.
FOUR! First one from the bat of Gill off his 19th ball. That should do his confidence a world of good. Rauf not having a good day so far.
Good start for Shreyas Iyer. He is looking good in his comeback game. Solid stroke on the off side for a boundary from Iyer. He is up and running. Make that 2 boundaries in that Rauf over from Iyer. India- 42/2 after 8 overs. Shreyas Iyer- 13*, Shubman Gill- 1*.
India vs Pakistan | Asia Cup 2023: Haris Rauf comes into the attack.
India- 30/2 after 7 overs.
India vs Pakistan | Asia Cup 2023: Shreyas Iyer walks out to the middle on his injury come back.
WICKET! Another one goes down. And it's the big man Kohli who walks back. Afridi it is once again who strikes and Kohli is played on. IND- 27/2 in 6.3 Overs.
IND: 26/1 after 6 overs.
FOUR! That's the shot of a man in confidence. Not a bad ball from Naseem Shah but that is the class of Kohli. Through the covers for a boundary. Nice shot to get off the mark.
Virat Kohli walks in at number 3. Both batters on 0 at the moment.
WICKET!!!! There it is. IN dipper from Shaheen and Rohit departs. India- 15/1. The break does it for Pakistan and Shaheen.
The covers are off and the match is set to resume. India: 15/0 after 4.2 overs, remember.
The rain has eased out. But we are still some time away from restart. Rohit has looked good with a couple of boundaries but Gill hasn't been at his best yet.
Commentators on air suggest this might be a heavy shower. IND- 15/0 after 4.2 overs as rain interrupts play.
It has started to drizzle at the stadium and covers are coming on.
India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2023: END OF OVER 4. India- 15/0. Just a wide in that over. Rohit- 11*, Gill- 0*.
India vs Pakistan | Asia Cup 2023: Four dot balls in a row. Gill still not off the mark.
Naseem Shah to continue.
END OF OVER 3. IND- 14/0. Rohit- 11*, Gill- 0*.
There's the typical flick from Rohit off Afridi. Was drifting on to his legs that ball and he capitalised it big time. FOUR! Nearly a six.
2 overs gone. 9/0. Decent over from Shah too. Nearly dismissed Gill with a beauty there did the arm-arm pacer. But all's well that ends well for India.
Naseem Shah from the other end for Pakistan.
END OF OVER 1. India- 6/0. Rohit- 5*, Gill- 0*. Decent over from Afridi too. All signs of a riveting encounter ahead.
FOUR! That's first runs and it's a boundary off the bat of Rohit. Bit aerial but safe in the end and finds the fence. That should settle the nerves, if any.
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill come out to open the innings. Shaheen Shah Afridi to Rohit- the contest everyone was looking forward to. HERE WE GO!
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan(w), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
Pakistan (Playing XI): Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf.
India won the toss and opted to bat first in Kandy.
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Background
The 2023 edition of the Asia Cup has already started with both Pakistan and Sri Lanka hosting the prestigious event. The time has come for the much-anticipated game as seven-time winners India will be taking on Pakistan at the Pallekele International Stadium in Sri Lanka for the third match of Asia Cup 2023. On the back of a solid win against Nepal, Pakistan will come to play this game and will look to continue their winning momentum while India who will be playing their first game will look to start their campaign on a high.
This will be the first meeting between the two sides after the blockbuster clash in Melbourne last year. Virat Kohli was the star with the bat as he smashed an unbeaten 82 runs, helping India to win the game by four wickets. A month before that game, two sides shared a win each in the Asia Cup where the Men in Green lost the first in the group stage but sealed victory in the more crucial one in the Super Four round, which helped them knock out India.
However, this will be their first-ever ODI face-off since the 2019 World Cup. India has a slight advantage over Pakistan in the ODI format of the Asia Cup as they have seven games out of 12 meetings.
But in the end, chances are bleak whether this high-octane clash will happen or not as rain is likely to play spoilsport in the Kandy. As per Accuweather report, 84% chance of rain is there during the day. In the morning, a 60% chance of a downpour is there.
Squads:
India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (Captain), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Tayyab Tahir, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi.
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