Highlights – Tilak Varma and Shivam Dube’s important partnership brought India back from the abyss and guided the Men in Blue to a 5-wicket win against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final.
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Tilak Varma and Shivam Dube’s crucial partnership saved India from the deep sea of trouble and guided the Men in Blue to a 5-wicket win against Pakistan on Sunday, helping the team clinch their 9th Asia Cup.
It wasn’t an easy task with Faheem Ashraf and Shaheen Afridi initially silencing the Indian crowd when they snapped up Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill for single digits inside powerplay. Apart from Dube, Varma also had an important partnership with Sanju Samson which steadied the innings.”
“Earlier, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets, leading the India bowling lineup as Pakistan suffered a horrible collapse after a steady start, losing 9 wickets for just 33 runs as they were skittled out for just 146 runs in 19.1 overs at Dubai in the Asia Cup final. It had started swimmingly for Pakistan with Sahibzada Farhan scoring 57 and Fakhar Zaman chipping in with 46 but Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (2/25), Varun Chakravarthy (2/30) and Axar Patel (2/26) ran through the remaining batters like hot knife through butter with only Saim Ayub the other batter to reach double figures.
Earlier India had some bad news with Hardik Pandya missing out with a niggle with Rinku Singh replacing him. Also, Jasprit Bumrah and Shivam Dube returned in place of Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh.
