Asia Cup: India Enrolled The Biggest Win Against Pakistan In Terms Of Wickets.
- For the first time against Pakistan, India’s both openers scored centuries.
- Team India beat Pakistan by nine wickets in their second match of #Super-4.
- India’s next match in Super-4 will be with Afghanistan on September 25.
Dubai: India defeated Pakistan on Sunday to make it to the Asia Cup final. Pakistan scored 237 runs in 50 overs on 7 wickets. Chasing the target, Team India won the match by scoring 238 runs in 39.3 overs. This is the biggest win of India against Pakistan in terms of wickets. Earlier, India had won by eight wickets six times against Pakistan.
The biggest opening partnership against Pakistan: India’s Captain #Rohit Sharma and #Shikhar Dhawan have shared the record for the first wicket against Pakistan. Both added 210 runs. Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly scored 159 runs for the first wicket against Pakistan.
Against Pakistan, it is the second largest partnership for any wicket from India. Earlier Sachin Tendulkar and Navjot Singh Sidhu added 231 runs for the second wicket in Sharjah in 1996.
Rohit-Shikhar left behind Sachin-Sehwag in 100+ partnership: Rohit and Dhawan shared the 13th-century partnership in ODI. Both left behind Sehwag and Sachin’s record of 12 centuries partnership. Sachin and Sourav Ganguly have the record for the 21 centuries partnership in ODIs.
Rohit became the 9th Indian to score 7,000 runs: Rohit scored the 19th century of his ODI career and Shikhar scored the 15th century. Rohit completed 7,000 ODI runs. He played 181 ODI for this. He is the 9th Indian to score 7,000 runs.
He is on the fifth spot for scoring the fastest 7,000 runs. South Africa’s Hashim Amla in 153 ODIs, Virat Kohli in 161 ODIs, South Africa’s Ab De Villiers in 166 ODIs and Sourav Ganguly in 174 ODIs scored 7,000 runs.
Rohit’s two catches have missed: When Rohit was on 14 runs, Imam left his catch on the cover of Shaheen Afridi. India’s score was 29 at that time. Rohit, after reaching 81, Shadab Khan missed the ball.
Record of two biggest wins in two matches: India made records of two biggest victories in two consecutive matches against Pakistan. In the match played on September 19th, India had won the match against Pakistan remaining 126 balls. It was the biggest win in terms of balls.
Shikhar man of the match: Shikhar Dhawan was the man of the match. In #Asia Cup, he scored 327 runs. The record for making the most runs in an Asia Cup is the name of Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka. He scored 378 runs in 2008. In this sense, just 51 runs behind from making the record of highest score in the Asia Cup.
The biggest opening partnership pursuing the goal: Chasing the target, Rohit-Shikhar shared the highest run partnership for any wicket against any country. Earlier in 2009, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir had opening partnership against New Zealand with Hamilton.
Both the openers of India have scored seven centuries on ODIs. Rohit-Dhawan did this for the first time. Before this, both openers scored the century against Sri Lanka twice and against South Africa, Kenya, England and New Zealand once.
Chasing the target, the two Indian openers scored a century for the second time. Earlier, Ganguly and Sehwag had scored centuries as the opening pair in the Champions Trophy in 2002.
Earlier, Pakistan captain #Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and decided to bat. On behalf of Pakistan, #Shoaib Malik scored a maximum of 78 runs. India’s Jaspreet Bumrah, #Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets each.
Malik top-2 scorer against India in Asia Cup: Malik has scored 428 runs against India in Asia Cup. He became the second player to score the most runs against India in the Aisa Cup. He left behind Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara.
Sangakkara has 394 runs against India in Asia Cup. The record for making the highest score against India in the Asia Cup is the name of Sanath Jayasuriya. Jayasuriya scored 562 runs.
Sangakkara’s Asia Cup has 394 runs against India. The record for making the highest score against India in the Asia Cup is Sanath Jayasuriya. Jayasuriya’s name (562) runs
In Chahal’s 30 ODIs, 50 ODI wickets: Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets in this match. Along with this, he made 50 wickets in ODIs. He touched this figure in his 30th match. In the case of spinners, he is seventh fastest 50 wickets holder in ODIs.
Ajit Agarkar made the record of taking 50 wickets in India’s lowest ODIs. He completed his 50 wickets in 23 ODIs. Kuldeep Yadav completed his 50 wickets in 24 ODIs.
India’s fastest 50 wickets: Pakistan lost their three wickets for just 58 runs in the 16th over. However, Sarfraz and Malik took over the charge of the inning. Ravindra Jadeja, who took four wickets in the last match, could not take any wickets.
Kuldeep broke the partnership of both. He got Sarfraz caught by captain Rohit Sharma. Malik was caught by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.