Kohli’s super innings gave India a 4-wicket win over Pakistan
In the second group of the Super 12 round with the Pakistan team yesterday (23), the Indian team won by 4 wickets.
The 90,000-capacity Melbourne Stadium was packed to the rafters to witness the excitement and glamor of the cricket clash between two of the Asian powerhouses.
After winning the toss, the Indian bowlers did not allow Pakistan to get off to a successful start.
However, Shan Masood and Iftikhar Ahmed’s partnership of 76 runs for the third wicket managed to take Pakistan’s innings to a safe level.
Iftikhar Ahmed scored 51 runs off 34 balls.
His innings was colorful with 6 hits 4 and 4 hits 2.
Shan Masood scored 52 points.
The Indian bowlers did not allow all 7 Pakistani batsmen to cross the 10-run mark.
Hardik Pandya and Arshadeep Singh managed to take 3 wickets each for the Indian team.
Entering the field for a target of 160 runs, the Pakistan team managed to break the first 4 wickets of the Indian team in 31 runs.
Captain Rohit Sharma 4 points.
Hardik teamed up with India’s top batsman Virat Kohli, who took the responsibility of building the broken Indian innings, engaged in a fast batting run.
The fifth wicket partnership between the two is 113 runs.
Pandya managed to score 40 runs.
Virat Kohli, who was the most successful batsman in the Indian innings, managed to score 82 runs from 53 balls without losing.
The victory of the match, which was swinging for both sides, came to the Indian team in the last over, directed by Mohammad Nawaz.
In that innings, the Indian team should have scored 16 runs and the Indian team managed to pass the target by losing 6 wickets due to the weaknesses of Pakistan’s bowling.
