OVER 13: PAK 61/2 (Azhar 37* Hafeez 0*) target 289 The ball before, Babar had slashed at another similar ball and Jadhav made a muff of the field on the boundary. Mohammad Hafeez comes in and there are four dot balls. It's a lovely evening there now so I don't suppose DL will come into play, but there's little chance of Pakistan being ahead of that score from here on.
Mohammad Amir suddenly goes down to the ground, clutching his ankle, as the Pakistan team physio comes out onto the field, to inspect the paceman, who eventually walks off to the dressing room. Wahav Riaz comes in to bowl in Amir's place.
1998-99 (India)Confusingly, the `third' Test of the series was designated as a separate game, part of the rather questionable Asian Test Championship, the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya. The tournament was a triumph for Pakistan, who were 26 for 6 against India on the opening day at Calcutta but fought back to win by 46 runs, despite Javagal Srinath's 13 for 142. India were left grumbling about a system of bonus points which left them out of a final in which Pakistan easily beat Sri Lanka. At Lahore, Sri Lanka gained the bonus point needed to eliminate India while Wasim Akram kept himself out of the attack. Pakistan denied any wrong-doing , and India had themselves to blame too; they had squandered a winning position at Calcutta. Test: India 0 Pakistan 1
https://youtu.be/0IaGlAad8c0
Pakistan became a permanent member of the International Cricket Council in 1948, and their tour of India was their first in Test cricket history. They lost the first Test in Delhi to India, but won the second Test in Lucknow, which led to an angry reaction from the home crowd against the Indian players. India clinched the Test series after winning the third Test in Bombay, but the intense pressure affected the players of both teams to the point that they pursued mainly defensive tactics that led to drawn matches and whole series without a victor. When India toured Pakistan in 1955, thousands of Indian fans were granted visas to go to the Pakistani city of Lahore to watch the Test match. But both the 1955 series and Pakistan's tour of India in 1961 ended in a drawn series with no test yielding a winner or loser. Complaints about the fairness of umpires also became routine.
Another bouncer from Pandya has Malik swaying, but he follows that up with a wide half-volley that the batsman timed beautifully through cover for four. The next ball is an overcompensation: on the hips and Malik whips it away through fine leg for four. The new batsman has injected some tempo for Pakistan. Thick edge from Hafeez, but it runs harmlessly down to third-man for one.
Kohli's not wasting any time in finding form, glancing the ball down to third-man for a boundary. India running well, too, the final ball of Wasim's over going for two more to the India captain.
What are they saying? India captain Virat Kohli: Indian skipper Virat Kohli has denied reports of a rift between himself and coach Anil Kumble on the eve of his team's Champions Trophy Group B opener against arch-rivals Pakistan at Edgbaston on Sunday. Reports of a falling out between Kohli and Kumble emerged after India's cricket board (BCCI) invited applications for the head coach's role last week, despite the team's excellent results since Kumble took over last June. Kumble has guided the team to just one defeat in 17 tests since taking charge, and the BCCI has made it clear that it will also consider extending his contract. "There are no issues whatsoever," Kohli told a news conference on Saturday. "There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of things written by people without actually being a part of the changing room, which is very strange. "There are no problems whatsoever. The team is totally focused on the Champions Trophy." What are the odds? India - 4/9 Pakistan - 7/4 What's our prediction? India should win here, but we're expecting a close match.
Dipps & Saima present a special four hour show with live inserts from India Vs Pakistan at Edgbaston. Our very own Noreen Khan soaks up the atmosphere from the pitch and reports back. It's the biggest cricketing fixture in the world and both Dipps and Saima have their celebrity friends dropping in on the show and giving us their live take on the match. Be it Dr Zeus or Falak, Raxstar or Rahim Pardesi. The biggest names from the world Pakistani and Punjabi entertainment will be on your airwaves. Both Dipps and Saima have prepared a playlist you just cannot miss. Think of the biggest sounds and musical vibes from both India and Pakistan coming together in one huge fusion of music to celebrate this historic cricket game in Birmingham. Plus Dipps will spin a special India vs Pakistan mix to celebrate the end of the game, the question is, which team will be celebrating and which team will be mourning during that mix. Show more / Show less Add Release date: 4 June 2017 18 days left to listen 3 hours, 57 minutes
FOUR! Short and wide from Lakmal and Sarfraz cuts it through point. The third man hares across from third man, got to the ball but failed to stop the ball as he parries it to the fence. He blocks the second ball to covers. The next ball is on a length and swinging in Sarfraz buries it onto the ground. Another defensive shot from the Pakistan skipper. This is intelligent cricket. Sarfraz takes a single off the fifth ball. He wans to keep the strike as much as possible. Can Amir survive this ball? Yes he can, he nudges it to square leg and wants a single. Sarfraz says no mate stay there. 44 off 72
OVER 25: IND 138/1 (Rohit 65* Kohli 1*) I don't really know what to tell you about that. Shadab was struggling with the wet ball, needed a rag. Dhawan down the pitch to a full toss, and plopped it straight to the man in the deep. The Indians in the crowd allow themselves a split second to reflect, then start going nutso. Why? Because Virat Kohli is coming to the crease. Kohli gets in with enough time left to get his hundred. Everybody wins.— Hassan Cheema (@mediagag) June 4, 2017
"There are no issues whatsoever," Kohli told a news conference on Saturday. "There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of things written by people without actually being a part of the changing room, which is very strange.
The ball before, Babar had slashed at another similar ball and Jadhav made a muff of the field on the boundary. Mohammad Hafeez comes in and there are four dot balls. It's a lovely evening there now so I don't suppose DL will come into play, but there's little chance of Pakistan being ahead of that score from here on.
The growth of large expatriate populations from India and Pakistan across the world led to neutral states like the United Arab Emirates and Canada hosting several bilateral and multilateral ODI series involving the two teams. Players in both teams routinely face intense pressure to win, and are threatened by extreme reactions in defeat. Extreme fan reactions to defeats in key matches such as in the ICC Cricket World Cup have been recorded, with a limited degree of violence and public disturbances.At the same time, India-Pakistan cricket matches have also offered opportunities for cricket diplomacy as a means to improve relations between the two countries by allowing heads of state to exchange visits and cricket followers from either country to travel to the other to watch the matches.
First bowling change, Hasan Ali comes on with his right-arm fast medium. Offers the merest hint of width and Rohit is at him, a lovely, clever, touchy shot behind square for four. Quality act, old RS. The days of 'Nohit Sharma' but a memory these days. Weather not looking too good.
WICKET! Amir c Jadhav b Yadav 9 Amir gets two off the first ball of the over, but gives his wicket away the very next ball. Tries to hit Yadav on the up through cover which is more than a tad ambitious. Simple chance for Jadhav in the field, despite his shocking put-down earlier.
Cheers Ben. There's 25 minutes left in the bank, as it were, before we have to start losing overs. Doesn't look too bad. Rain spoiled the contest between these two in the 2013 Champions Trophy on this same ground, India getting home comfortably in a DL chase of 102 in 22 overs.
Shame. But that delay might come at a reasonable time for Pakistan. India just starting to tick, and some errors starting to creep in for the Pakistan boys. Imad tosses one up and Dhawan wallops it. Now a really irritating bit of cricket, the ball knocked into the deep for a single, a wild throw, keeper misses it, nobody is backing up. Oh, Pakistan. Three runs. Anyway, then a couple of singles and the umpires have the players off after the fifth ball of the over.
But, sorry to say, that pressure dissipates as Imad Wasim starts with a nothing ball, and Dhawan dabs it to point. The simplest bit of fielding you could wish to see, but Ahmed Shehzad has dived over the ball, allowing a freebie two. Next ball is a wide down legside. No score for the rest of the over, though, Dhawan picking out the fielders.
ICC Champions Trophy 2017 has reached its business end and we are just three matches away from knowing that who will be the next side who to claim the coveted trophy on 18th June at The Oval, London. In the first semi-final, the hosts England and Pakistan will battle it out hard at Cardiff to book a berth in the grand final. The runners-up of last Champions Trophy, England is the only undefeated team in the tournament and is arguably the most complete side in limited-overs cricket. Eoin Morgan’s men have all bases covered and will start as the favourites against the men in green.
Pakistan have come back well, after Rohit's wicket, but Yuvraj Singh seems to have come out to bat with the intention of scoring the quick runs. Sparsed boundaries have kept India's run rate up, as we enter the last eight overs.
If it is cricket’s role to offer a day-long and all-consuming escape, it did the job well enough when India met Pakistan in the Champions Trophy. A crowd of 24,156 – the highest for a one-day game in Birmingham – and a television audience of about one billion watched the first fixture between the two neighbours since the 2015 World Cup. India won very easily, by 124 runs. Their batting power has been the most significant opening bid in the first four matches of this tournament although England, provided they qualify, can avoid India in the semi-finals by meeting South Africa, whom they beat 2-1 in their recent series. It was India’s batting which set this Champions Trophy alight. The first three games had contained quite a lot of mediocrity, truth be reported, and not surprisingly given that the majority of players had only a game or two to acclimatise to England’s particular conditions; and there was plenty more mediocrity in this game, until India’s middle order not only took off but almost went into orbit by scoring 76 runs from their last four overs. Yuvraj Singh, a bruising left-hander and India’s most experienced batsman, lit the blue touchpaper. To that point, their captain, Virat Kohli, had been earthbound, pushing his ones and twos, as if his reputation as the world’s best batsman had been much exaggerated. He then reached for the stars, scoring 37 runs off his last 12 balls, while Hardik Pandya weighed in by hitting the first three balls of India’s final over for six.
Sarfraz Ahmed is a delightful gabbler, I like him even more for that. He relates that Shadab, the 18-year-old leggie, is in the XI, Fashim Ashraf is the man who misses out. Virat gets a huge cheer: "The side batting second will have some pressure. Nice and hard wicket. We will look to use our main strength which is batting. It is just a game of cricket for me, anywhere in the world. We feel normal, the preparations are as usual." For India, R Ashwin and Shami are out.
WICKET! Sarfraz c Dhoni b Pandya 15 Lovely straight drive from Sarfraz back past Pandya for four, and that's the 150 up for Pakistan. Tries to run one down to third-man, but the ball gets a little too close to him and he glances it straight to Dhoni with a shot that looked something out of morning catching practice.
And we have some good news from Edgbaston. Rain has stopped, and the covers are off. India and Pakistan are all set to resume their rivalries again, in a while.
Well that looks plum out to me, but for some reason Marais Erasmus doesn't fancy it. Pakistan get one thing right at least, albeit the first thing they have got right all day. They review. It's out.
Amir gets two off the first ball of the over, but gives his wicket away the very next ball. Tries to hit Yadav on the up through cover which is more than a tad ambitious. Simple chance for Jadhav in the field, despite his shocking put-down earlier.
I have not seen Sarfraz Ahmed skipper before, and I cannot say I am all that impressed. Drifty, nothingy display so far. Dhawan sweeps Malik for four.
Where was the game won? It was rather lost, in the death overs, with Pakistan conceding 72 runs in the last four overs, grotesquely bowling a spinner in the last, which constituted one of the many baffling tactics from Sarfraz. India won that moment - Hardik contributed with his cameo - and then Bhuvneshwar kickstarted a train of stop-and-start partnerships, none of which sustained. A good opening partnership was tamed, Pandya upped his bowling game with figures of 2/43 and Pakistan were dished out a hammering. They opted to chase to evade Kohli but ironically, rammed their heads into an upcoming battery of Indian bowlers. And a vintage Yuvraj Singh.
Openers Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma were just looking to up the tempo, when the weather gods decided to interfere with the game as the showers poured down. They did not last for long though, as play resumed later, with Dhawan and Rohit needing to acclimatise themselves to the conditions again.
Lasith Malinga is back! He starts with a short ball around leg, Sarfraz ducks thinking it is a wide but the umpire thinks otherwise. Malinga attempts a dipping, slow yorker but it goes down the leg side. WIDE! DROPPED! Has Thisara dropped the match here? I think so. Sarfraz chips it towards Thisara at mid on, he rushes in and fluffs the ball. Got a bit too excited I feel. Lasith Malinga is fuming. Ahmed tickles the third ball to fine leg for a single. Amir just taps the fourth ball for a run. The Malinga smile is back. Ball six: another slow yorker and Sarfraz drives it uppishly to mid on but it falls well short of the fielder.
OVER 31: IND 163/1 (Rohit 74* Kohli 17*) Seam at both ends now for Pakistan, Hasan back into the attack. He's getting the ball to nip back a little and is asking a few questions of Rohit and Kohli. The former tries to go on the attack, attempting to drill the ball down the ground but he doesn't time it and mid-on intercepts. In response, Hasan gets Rohit ducking under a short ball - a terrific, lively delivery. Another quiet over - just another single.
Amir just gets time to bowl one more dot ball before the rain gets heavier and the players charge off. Such a shame. But we've still got 25 minutes or so until we start losing overs, so hopefully it won't be delayed for long. A timely delay for us here at least, Ben Curtis hands over to Alan Tyers. Ta.
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OVER 43: IND 242/2 (Kohli 42* Yuvraj 37*) Glad you dropped Yuvraj Singh now, Hasan Ali? Gets his foot out of the way and murders the ball down the ground for four. Now he tries a slower ball but Yuvi has seen it all before. That sits up nicely, he is onto it, and it's soon sailing into the midwicket stands for six. 36 off the last four and Pakistan are in all sorts. 23 balls for Yuvi so far. Does any bowling attack in world cricket receive so little support from their fielders as Pakistan? Almost impossible to build pressure.— George Dobell (@GeorgeDobell1) June 4, 2017
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The rain delay has certainly halted the momentum that India were starting to pick up, towards the end of the first 10 overs of the match. Rohit and Dhawan are looking to get their eye in again, something that has caused a drop in the run rate.
Mohammad Amir suddenly goes down to the ground, clutching his ankle, as the Pakistan team physio comes out onto the field, to inspect the paceman, who eventually walks off to the dressing room. Wahav Riaz comes in to bowl in Amir's place.
1998-99 (India)Confusingly, the `third' Test of the series was designated as a separate game, part of the rather questionable Asian Test Championship, the brainchild of Jagmohan Dalmiya. The tournament was a triumph for Pakistan, who were 26 for 6 against India on the opening day at Calcutta but fought back to win by 46 runs, despite Javagal Srinath's 13 for 142. India were left grumbling about a system of bonus points which left them out of a final in which Pakistan easily beat Sri Lanka. At Lahore, Sri Lanka gained the bonus point needed to eliminate India while Wasim Akram kept himself out of the attack. Pakistan denied any wrong-doing , and India had themselves to blame too; they had squandered a winning position at Calcutta. Test: India 0 Pakistan 1
https://youtu.be/0IaGlAad8c0
Pakistan became a permanent member of the International Cricket Council in 1948, and their tour of India was their first in Test cricket history. They lost the first Test in Delhi to India, but won the second Test in Lucknow, which led to an angry reaction from the home crowd against the Indian players. India clinched the Test series after winning the third Test in Bombay, but the intense pressure affected the players of both teams to the point that they pursued mainly defensive tactics that led to drawn matches and whole series without a victor. When India toured Pakistan in 1955, thousands of Indian fans were granted visas to go to the Pakistani city of Lahore to watch the Test match. But both the 1955 series and Pakistan's tour of India in 1961 ended in a drawn series with no test yielding a winner or loser. Complaints about the fairness of umpires also became routine.
Another bouncer from Pandya has Malik swaying, but he follows that up with a wide half-volley that the batsman timed beautifully through cover for four. The next ball is an overcompensation: on the hips and Malik whips it away through fine leg for four. The new batsman has injected some tempo for Pakistan. Thick edge from Hafeez, but it runs harmlessly down to third-man for one.
Kohli's not wasting any time in finding form, glancing the ball down to third-man for a boundary. India running well, too, the final ball of Wasim's over going for two more to the India captain.
What are they saying? India captain Virat Kohli: Indian skipper Virat Kohli has denied reports of a rift between himself and coach Anil Kumble on the eve of his team's Champions Trophy Group B opener against arch-rivals Pakistan at Edgbaston on Sunday. Reports of a falling out between Kohli and Kumble emerged after India's cricket board (BCCI) invited applications for the head coach's role last week, despite the team's excellent results since Kumble took over last June. Kumble has guided the team to just one defeat in 17 tests since taking charge, and the BCCI has made it clear that it will also consider extending his contract. "There are no issues whatsoever," Kohli told a news conference on Saturday. "There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of things written by people without actually being a part of the changing room, which is very strange. "There are no problems whatsoever. The team is totally focused on the Champions Trophy." What are the odds? India - 4/9 Pakistan - 7/4 What's our prediction? India should win here, but we're expecting a close match.
Dipps & Saima present a special four hour show with live inserts from India Vs Pakistan at Edgbaston. Our very own Noreen Khan soaks up the atmosphere from the pitch and reports back. It's the biggest cricketing fixture in the world and both Dipps and Saima have their celebrity friends dropping in on the show and giving us their live take on the match. Be it Dr Zeus or Falak, Raxstar or Rahim Pardesi. The biggest names from the world Pakistani and Punjabi entertainment will be on your airwaves. Both Dipps and Saima have prepared a playlist you just cannot miss. Think of the biggest sounds and musical vibes from both India and Pakistan coming together in one huge fusion of music to celebrate this historic cricket game in Birmingham. Plus Dipps will spin a special India vs Pakistan mix to celebrate the end of the game, the question is, which team will be celebrating and which team will be mourning during that mix. Show more / Show less Add Release date: 4 June 2017 18 days left to listen 3 hours, 57 minutes
FOUR! Short and wide from Lakmal and Sarfraz cuts it through point. The third man hares across from third man, got to the ball but failed to stop the ball as he parries it to the fence. He blocks the second ball to covers. The next ball is on a length and swinging in Sarfraz buries it onto the ground. Another defensive shot from the Pakistan skipper. This is intelligent cricket. Sarfraz takes a single off the fifth ball. He wans to keep the strike as much as possible. Can Amir survive this ball? Yes he can, he nudges it to square leg and wants a single. Sarfraz says no mate stay there. 44 off 72
OVER 25: IND 138/1 (Rohit 65* Kohli 1*) I don't really know what to tell you about that. Shadab was struggling with the wet ball, needed a rag. Dhawan down the pitch to a full toss, and plopped it straight to the man in the deep. The Indians in the crowd allow themselves a split second to reflect, then start going nutso. Why? Because Virat Kohli is coming to the crease. Kohli gets in with enough time left to get his hundred. Everybody wins.— Hassan Cheema (@mediagag) June 4, 2017
"There are no issues whatsoever," Kohli told a news conference on Saturday. "There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of things written by people without actually being a part of the changing room, which is very strange.
The ball before, Babar had slashed at another similar ball and Jadhav made a muff of the field on the boundary. Mohammad Hafeez comes in and there are four dot balls. It's a lovely evening there now so I don't suppose DL will come into play, but there's little chance of Pakistan being ahead of that score from here on.
The growth of large expatriate populations from India and Pakistan across the world led to neutral states like the United Arab Emirates and Canada hosting several bilateral and multilateral ODI series involving the two teams. Players in both teams routinely face intense pressure to win, and are threatened by extreme reactions in defeat. Extreme fan reactions to defeats in key matches such as in the ICC Cricket World Cup have been recorded, with a limited degree of violence and public disturbances.At the same time, India-Pakistan cricket matches have also offered opportunities for cricket diplomacy as a means to improve relations between the two countries by allowing heads of state to exchange visits and cricket followers from either country to travel to the other to watch the matches.
First bowling change, Hasan Ali comes on with his right-arm fast medium. Offers the merest hint of width and Rohit is at him, a lovely, clever, touchy shot behind square for four. Quality act, old RS. The days of 'Nohit Sharma' but a memory these days. Weather not looking too good.
WICKET! Amir c Jadhav b Yadav 9 Amir gets two off the first ball of the over, but gives his wicket away the very next ball. Tries to hit Yadav on the up through cover which is more than a tad ambitious. Simple chance for Jadhav in the field, despite his shocking put-down earlier.
Cheers Ben. There's 25 minutes left in the bank, as it were, before we have to start losing overs. Doesn't look too bad. Rain spoiled the contest between these two in the 2013 Champions Trophy on this same ground, India getting home comfortably in a DL chase of 102 in 22 overs.
Shame. But that delay might come at a reasonable time for Pakistan. India just starting to tick, and some errors starting to creep in for the Pakistan boys. Imad tosses one up and Dhawan wallops it. Now a really irritating bit of cricket, the ball knocked into the deep for a single, a wild throw, keeper misses it, nobody is backing up. Oh, Pakistan. Three runs. Anyway, then a couple of singles and the umpires have the players off after the fifth ball of the over.
But, sorry to say, that pressure dissipates as Imad Wasim starts with a nothing ball, and Dhawan dabs it to point. The simplest bit of fielding you could wish to see, but Ahmed Shehzad has dived over the ball, allowing a freebie two. Next ball is a wide down legside. No score for the rest of the over, though, Dhawan picking out the fielders.
ICC Champions Trophy 2017 has reached its business end and we are just three matches away from knowing that who will be the next side who to claim the coveted trophy on 18th June at The Oval, London. In the first semi-final, the hosts England and Pakistan will battle it out hard at Cardiff to book a berth in the grand final. The runners-up of last Champions Trophy, England is the only undefeated team in the tournament and is arguably the most complete side in limited-overs cricket. Eoin Morgan’s men have all bases covered and will start as the favourites against the men in green.
Pakistan have come back well, after Rohit's wicket, but Yuvraj Singh seems to have come out to bat with the intention of scoring the quick runs. Sparsed boundaries have kept India's run rate up, as we enter the last eight overs.
If it is cricket’s role to offer a day-long and all-consuming escape, it did the job well enough when India met Pakistan in the Champions Trophy. A crowd of 24,156 – the highest for a one-day game in Birmingham – and a television audience of about one billion watched the first fixture between the two neighbours since the 2015 World Cup. India won very easily, by 124 runs. Their batting power has been the most significant opening bid in the first four matches of this tournament although England, provided they qualify, can avoid India in the semi-finals by meeting South Africa, whom they beat 2-1 in their recent series. It was India’s batting which set this Champions Trophy alight. The first three games had contained quite a lot of mediocrity, truth be reported, and not surprisingly given that the majority of players had only a game or two to acclimatise to England’s particular conditions; and there was plenty more mediocrity in this game, until India’s middle order not only took off but almost went into orbit by scoring 76 runs from their last four overs. Yuvraj Singh, a bruising left-hander and India’s most experienced batsman, lit the blue touchpaper. To that point, their captain, Virat Kohli, had been earthbound, pushing his ones and twos, as if his reputation as the world’s best batsman had been much exaggerated. He then reached for the stars, scoring 37 runs off his last 12 balls, while Hardik Pandya weighed in by hitting the first three balls of India’s final over for six.
Sarfraz Ahmed is a delightful gabbler, I like him even more for that. He relates that Shadab, the 18-year-old leggie, is in the XI, Fashim Ashraf is the man who misses out. Virat gets a huge cheer: "The side batting second will have some pressure. Nice and hard wicket. We will look to use our main strength which is batting. It is just a game of cricket for me, anywhere in the world. We feel normal, the preparations are as usual." For India, R Ashwin and Shami are out.
WICKET! Sarfraz c Dhoni b Pandya 15 Lovely straight drive from Sarfraz back past Pandya for four, and that's the 150 up for Pakistan. Tries to run one down to third-man, but the ball gets a little too close to him and he glances it straight to Dhoni with a shot that looked something out of morning catching practice.
And we have some good news from Edgbaston. Rain has stopped, and the covers are off. India and Pakistan are all set to resume their rivalries again, in a while.
Well that looks plum out to me, but for some reason Marais Erasmus doesn't fancy it. Pakistan get one thing right at least, albeit the first thing they have got right all day. They review. It's out.
Amir gets two off the first ball of the over, but gives his wicket away the very next ball. Tries to hit Yadav on the up through cover which is more than a tad ambitious. Simple chance for Jadhav in the field, despite his shocking put-down earlier.
I have not seen Sarfraz Ahmed skipper before, and I cannot say I am all that impressed. Drifty, nothingy display so far. Dhawan sweeps Malik for four.
Where was the game won? It was rather lost, in the death overs, with Pakistan conceding 72 runs in the last four overs, grotesquely bowling a spinner in the last, which constituted one of the many baffling tactics from Sarfraz. India won that moment - Hardik contributed with his cameo - and then Bhuvneshwar kickstarted a train of stop-and-start partnerships, none of which sustained. A good opening partnership was tamed, Pandya upped his bowling game with figures of 2/43 and Pakistan were dished out a hammering. They opted to chase to evade Kohli but ironically, rammed their heads into an upcoming battery of Indian bowlers. And a vintage Yuvraj Singh.
Openers Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma were just looking to up the tempo, when the weather gods decided to interfere with the game as the showers poured down. They did not last for long though, as play resumed later, with Dhawan and Rohit needing to acclimatise themselves to the conditions again.
Lasith Malinga is back! He starts with a short ball around leg, Sarfraz ducks thinking it is a wide but the umpire thinks otherwise. Malinga attempts a dipping, slow yorker but it goes down the leg side. WIDE! DROPPED! Has Thisara dropped the match here? I think so. Sarfraz chips it towards Thisara at mid on, he rushes in and fluffs the ball. Got a bit too excited I feel. Lasith Malinga is fuming. Ahmed tickles the third ball to fine leg for a single. Amir just taps the fourth ball for a run. The Malinga smile is back. Ball six: another slow yorker and Sarfraz drives it uppishly to mid on but it falls well short of the fielder.
OVER 31: IND 163/1 (Rohit 74* Kohli 17*) Seam at both ends now for Pakistan, Hasan back into the attack. He's getting the ball to nip back a little and is asking a few questions of Rohit and Kohli. The former tries to go on the attack, attempting to drill the ball down the ground but he doesn't time it and mid-on intercepts. In response, Hasan gets Rohit ducking under a short ball - a terrific, lively delivery. Another quiet over - just another single.
Amir just gets time to bowl one more dot ball before the rain gets heavier and the players charge off. Such a shame. But we've still got 25 minutes or so until we start losing overs, so hopefully it won't be delayed for long. A timely delay for us here at least, Ben Curtis hands over to Alan Tyers. Ta.
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OVER 43: IND 242/2 (Kohli 42* Yuvraj 37*) Glad you dropped Yuvraj Singh now, Hasan Ali? Gets his foot out of the way and murders the ball down the ground for four. Now he tries a slower ball but Yuvi has seen it all before. That sits up nicely, he is onto it, and it's soon sailing into the midwicket stands for six. 36 off the last four and Pakistan are in all sorts. 23 balls for Yuvi so far. Does any bowling attack in world cricket receive so little support from their fielders as Pakistan? Almost impossible to build pressure.— George Dobell (@GeorgeDobell1) June 4, 2017
"I was away from cricket coaching for a year, and now, I want to come back to it. I have also enjoyed my time in India, and it would be nice to serve Indian cricket."
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The rain delay has certainly halted the momentum that India were starting to pick up, towards the end of the first 10 overs of the match. Rohit and Dhawan are looking to get their eye in again, something that has caused a drop in the run rate.
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