🏏ICC Men's T20 W C 2026: Group A, M 27: India vs Pak at Colombo🏏 - Page 26

Originally posted by: Swathi_7

Kuldeep and bumrah bachalo

Varun also.

175 - is it a good score? Is it under par? Tell you what, it gripped the surface a fair bit if the spinners bowled into the wicket so this could well be just above par one feels. Pakistan will have to bat extremely wellto win this game and it won't be easy against Varun and Kuldeep. Axar and even Abhishek can spring a surprise too. Ishan Kishan played a blinder of an innings to be honest. India made 52 in the powerplay and he smashed 42 of them himself. If not for his bold cricket, India could have finished around 160ish as the other batters found the going tough.

175 - is it a good score? Is it under par? Tell you what, it gripped the surface a fair bit when the spinners bowled into the wicket so this could well be just above par one feels. Pakistan will have to bat extremely well to win this game and it won't be easy against Varun and Kuldeep. Axar and even Abhishek can spring a surprise too. Ishan Kishan played a blinder of an innings to be honest. India made 52 in the powerplay and he smashed 42 of them himself. If not for his bold cricket, India could have finished around 160ish as the other batters found the going tough. Tilak played second fiddle to Ishan in that 87-run partnership. SKY and Tilak nudged around to drag this innings deep but Saim Ayub dismissed Tilak and Hardik off successive balls to put the brakes. Dube and SKY again had to nudge around before Dube managed a few timely hits. Rinku had a good finish in the end off Shaheen. Usman Tariq might not have taken a lot of wickets but he made it so tough for the batters to score and Saim was outstanding with his variations. Pakistan will be disappointed with Shaheen and Shadab leaking runs. They would have ideally wanted to chase a score around 160.

Originally posted by: Swathi_7

Kuldeep and bumrah bachalo

We need these two

Rinku takes India to 175

A curious choice to give pace to Rinku Singh pace to work with in the last over. And that Shaheen Shah Afridi, who had gone for 15 in his first. India take him down for 16 runs in the last over and reach 175, which is the highest score in India-Pakistan encounters in T20 World Cups.

Usman Tariq: Vibes are pretty good. Great experience playing Pakistan vs India. Dream to play this game. Pitch was quite slow and I have already been in the CPL and I have plenty of experience of slow pitches. At least I kept the momentum low. We are on the safe side now. Of course, of course (can Pakistan chase it down?). Batters have great momentum. The intent they have showed shows their mind is very clear.

I still feel India is 10 runs short

I just hope that's not the case

No wonder ICC or BCCI for that matter are not willing to let go. 28 Cr views on hotstar.

Pakistan got 1.35X amount of avg turn in comparison to the three previous T20Is at this venue this WC; 17.4% of balls turned more than 4.5 degrees, up from just 5.4% from the three previous games.

India have scored 66 runs off the 38 balls pitched fuller than five meters from spin but only 72 off the 62 balls that pitched shorter.