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India-Pakistan match has been abandoned due to torrential rain. As a result of sharing the results, Pakistan confirmed the Super Four first. India will face Nepal on September 4. The most thrilling match in this year’s Asia Cup was supposed to be between India and Pakistan. However, due to rain, Pakistan did not get a chance to bat. After the batting of the Indian team, both teams went to the innings break. Earlier, Rohit-Kohli’s innings was stuck at 266 runs in the face of Pakistani bowlers. When Babar Azam was about to go down with the bat for the target of 267 runs, the rain interfered.

Earlier, Pakistan and Nepal met in the opening match of the 2023 Asia Cup (Asia Cup 2023) tournament in Multan, Pakistan on Wednesday. In the opening match against Nepal, the number one team in the world, Pakistan won by a huge margin of 238 runs.

Meanwhile, the cricket world has witnessed a lot of drama regarding this year’s Asia Cup organized by Pakistan. This year’s Asia Cup has been repeatedly hampered due to India-Pakistan political rivalry. However, in the end, the fight for the status of Asia will take place on Saturday in the event of Pakistan-Sri Lanka. And in this tournament, after four years, India and Pakistan met on Saturday (September 2). Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first at Pallekele Stadium in Sri Lanka. Shubman Gill opened with him for the Indian team.

India was shocked at the beginning of the innings. It was understood in the Bangladesh-Sri Lanka match that Pallekal’s wicket is not very helpful for batting. Bowlers can quickly take wickets in this crease. This happened with India too. In the fifth over, Rohit returned to Sajghar after being bowled by Shaheen Afridi; Then India’s team collection was only 15 runs. Then Virat Kohli became Shaheen’s second victim in the 7th over. Only 4 runs have been added to the Indian scoreboard from the bat of this great batsman. After that, Shubman tried to keep the lead of the team with Shreyas Iyer by batting defensively.

But that effort went in vain when Iyer got out for 14 runs off 9 balls. Shubman departed after 5 overs. Meanwhile, India is cornered. However, the pair of Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya pulled the team out of such a situation. Both batsmen strengthened their position by batting defensively first. Then they slowly came out of the shell. India crossed 200 runs relying on their bat. The pair broke after Ishan Haris Rauf was caught by Babar Azam and dismissed.

The wicket-keeper batsman played an innings of 82 runs off 81 balls before returning to the dressing room; His innings was decorated with 9 boundaries and 2 sixes. Then Ravindra Jadeja came and accompanied Pandya. But after a while, Pandya also got out after playing an innings of 87 runs. After that the Indians could not survive for long. Jadeja scored 14 runs, Shardul Thakur played an innings of 3 runs, Kuldeep Yadav played an innings of 4 runs and Jaspreet Bumrah scored 16 runs to lead the way to Sajghar. In the end Mohammad Siraj was unbeaten by 1 run. With everyone’s efforts, India got a fairly fighting total of 266 runs.