India’s Mohammed Shami reacts throughout their ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 match in opposition to Pakistan on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Dubai on February 23, 2025. — AFP
Indian quick bowler Mohammad Shami on Sunday bowled 5 wides in a single over in opposition to Pakistan throughout the much-hyped Champions Trophy 2025 conflict between the arch-rivals in Dubai.
Shami opened the assault for India and ended up bowling 11 deliveries within the first over. The best-arm pacer struggled to keep up his line as he bowled 5 wides on both aspect of the wicket.
Because of this, Shami joined fellow pacers Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan, who had additionally bowled 11 deliveries in an over in 2006 and 2003, respectively.
Irfan had bowled 11 delivers throughout a 2006 match in opposition to the West Indies, whereas Zaheer had finished so in opposition to Australia again in 2003.
Notably, all three situations occurred throughout the first over of the innings.
Nonetheless, Shami’s woes did not finish right here as he presumably picked up an ankle damage in his third over and required medical consideration.
Though, he managed to finish his stated over and conceded solely three runs he couldn’t proceed for the fourth and was consequently changed by Hardik Pandya.
Earlier within the day, Pakistan gained the toss and selected to bat first. Nonetheless, regardless of a moderately steady begin, openers Babar Azam (23) and Imam-ul-Haq (10) fell cheaply with the previous getting caught behind off Pandya whereas the latter was run out through a direct hit by Axar Patel.
When this story was filed, Pakistan had been 81-2 in 11 overs with skipper Mohammad Rizwan (14*) and Saud Shakeel (21*) on the crease.
Taking part in XIs
Pakistan: Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (c/wk), Salman Ali Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed.
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammad Shami, Kuldeep Yadav.
