DUBAI: India won the crucial match against Pakistan by eight wickets and pushed the Green Shirts almost out of the Champions Trophy 2025 in the jam-packed stadium in Dubai on Sunday
In the crucial match of the Champions Trophy, Pakistan’s team could only score 241 runs against India and the Green Shirts made a century of dot balls and gave the archrival a very low target in Dubai on Sunday. Pakistan can survive in the tournament only if it defeats Bangladesh with a big margin at Rawalpindi on Feb 27.
The Pakistani batters scored a century of dot balls in the first 161 balls of the innings. They also made good use of the power play for the dot balls.
Apart from this, Pakistani batters could not take advantage of the dropped catches to score more.
Muhammad Rizwan, the captain of the national team, was caught in the 33rd over and was clean bowled in the 34th over.
Saud Shakeel was also dropped in the 34th over and was later sent to the pavilion in the next over.
Earlier, Pakistan Captain Mohammad Rizwan won the toss and decided to bat first. Pakistan were bowled out for 241 in 49.4 overs. Pakistan had to bear the first loss in the form of Babar Azam on 41 who fell victim to Hardik Pandya’s ball for 23, after which Imam-ul-Haq was run out for 10 runs.
Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for 46 runs while Saud Shakeel returned to the pavilion for 62 runs, Tayab Tahir made four and Salman Agha 19 runs.
Shaheen Afridi, who came after him, was dismissed without scoring any run. Naseem Shah played an innings of 14 runs, Khushdil Shah scored 38 and Haris Rauf scored eight runs.
