Pakistan Shaheens’ captain Mohammad Haris (L) and his Indian counterpart Tilak Varma pictured after the toss throughout their encounter on the ACC Rising Groups Asia Cup 2024 on October 19, 2024. — PCB
Pakistan Shaheens misplaced by seven runs towards India A in an in depth and nerve-wracking encounter of the ACC Rising Groups Asia Cup 2024 at Al Amarat on Saturday.
The Shaheens scored 176 runs on the lack of seven wickets in reply of the 184-run goal.
Earlier, India had received the toss and elected to bat first. The facet then went on to conclude their innings on 183/8.
In reply, Pakistan started their chase and obtained a blow on the second ball of the innings as skipper Muhammad Haris was dismissed after hitting a six.
His substitute, Omair Yousuf, too procured a brief innings of two runs on seven balls.
The pitch was then dealt with by opener Yasir Khan (33 off 22 balls with one 4 and three sixes) and Qasim Akram (27 runs off 21 balls with 4 boundaries).
Inside 10 overs, Pakistan had misplaced 4 of their batters, together with their captain because the Indian bowlers continued their cost.
Pakistan managed to cross the 100-run mark within the thirteenth over with Arafat Minhas and Haider Ali on the crease.
After Haider’s dismissal, Minhas was joined by Abdul Samad who smashed 25 runs off 15 balls.
The duo was Pakistan’s final hope in defeating arch-rivals and after their dismissal, no hopes had been left as India registered a win over Pakistan by seven runs.
Within the first innings, Pakistan saved a gradual movement of wickets however the Indian batters continued scoring whilst they fell.
Their high 4 batters within the order added commendable runs to the scoreboard with Abhishek Sharma scoring 35 off 22, wicketkeeper-batter Prabhsimran Singh scoring 36 off 19, captain Tilak Varma completed his innings at 44 runs off 35 balls and Nehal Wadhera concluded his innings after scoring a 25 off 22 deliveries.
Issues slowed down from the Indian facet however for Haris and Co, the harm was already carried out as they continued taking wickets.
India concluded their battering with a rating of 183/8 and an amazing run-rate of 9.15.
Pakistan’s Sufiyan Muqeem grabbed two wickets as Mohammad Imran, Zaman Khan, Minhas and Akram took one scalp every.
Enjoying XIs
Pakistan Shaheens: Haider Ali, Mohammad Haris (wk, captain), Yasir Khan, Omair bin Yousuf, Qasim Akram, Abdul Samad, Arafat Minhas, Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Imran Jnr, Zaman Khan, and Sufyan Muqeem.
India A: Tilak Varma, Abishek Sharma, Prabh Simran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Ayush Badoni, Ramandeep Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Chahar, Anshul Kamboj, Vaibhav Arora, and Rasikh Salam.
