The Indian team registered a big win by 228 runs in the Super 4 match against Pakistan. Additionally, Rohit Bragid also scored two important points on his behalf. The Pakistan team had achieved the target of 357 runs in this match after which the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly and reduced the Pakistan team’s innings to just 128 runs. Kuldeep Yadav picked up five wickets from the Indian side. This is India’s biggest win against Pakistan in terms of runs in ODI cricket.
When the Pakistan team was chasing the target in this game, their start was not good. The first blow for the team came in the form of Imam Ul Haq, who scored 17 points in the fifth round. After that, the Pakistan team had scored 43 runs in the first 10 overs, losing 1 wicket. In the 11th over, Hardik Pandya dealt the Pakistan team the biggest blow of the game by bowling a brilliant inside ball to captain Babar Azam. Babar returned to the pavilion after facing 24 balls in this game having scored just 10 runs.
In this match, play had to be suspended again after 11 overs of Pakistan’s innings due to rain. When the game resumed after about 30 minutes, Shardul Thakur dealt Pakistan the third blow in the form of Mohammad Rizwan with a score of 47. From here, the influence of the Indian team had become very strong in this game.
After a brilliant start from the Indian fast bowlers, spinner Kuldeep Yadav took charge and dealt Pakistan their fourth blow with the score at 77 by bowling Fakhar Zaman. After that, the Pakistan batsmen were seen completely succumbing to Kuldeep’s spin, with a number of wickets falling at regular intervals. With the score at 96, half of the Pakistan team had returned to the pavilion.
Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed and Faheem Ashraf also failed to perform well with the bat. Pakistan lost their 8th wicket for 128. The game was also ended here as Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf failed to bat. For Indian bowling, Kuldeep took five wickets while Hardik, Bumrah and Shardul took one wicket each.
The Indian team had a chance to bat first in this game. Thereafter, on September 10, when the Indian team’s innings was interrupted due to rain, the score was 147 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 24.1 overs. After that, when the game began on the reserve day, the Pakistan bowlers looked completely helpless in front of Virat Kohli and KL Rahul.
In this match, Virat Kohli scored the 47th century of his ODI career and played an unbeaten innings of 122 runs. At the same time, KL Rahul also returned to international cricket after six months with a century, scoring an unbeaten 111 runs and playing an important role in increasing Team India’s score to 356 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 50 overs.