Colombo, Sep 10: A big match between India and Pakistan played in the Asia Cup has been rescheduled to reserve day due to rain.
In the India vs. Pakistan match, Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss, decided to bowl first, and invited India to bat.
Opening pair Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill came to bat for India, As soon as the game started, Rohit Sharma opened his account by hitting a beautiful six off Shaheen Afridi’s ball on the last ball of the first over of the innings.
In the game, both the batsmen of India were seen in full form and the bowlers of Pakistan were getting beaten a lot.
In the fourth over of the game, Shubman Gill attacked Shaheen Afridi and hit 3 fours in his over.
The game was progressing well for India when in 7.2 overs of the innings, the outer edge of Gill’s bat hit Naseem Shah’s bowl and the ball went between the two slip fielders and both kept looking at each other. .
Gill fully accepted this gift of life and completed his half-century in 12 overs.
As soon as the power play ended, Rohit Sharma hit two sixes in a row in the first over of Shadab Khan who came to bowl. And by hitting 1 more six on the first ball of his next over, he also completed his half-century.
Rohit Sharma hit Shadab hard and scored 31 runs in his 2 overs. And with this, Gill and Rohit together made a solid partnership of 121 runs.
However, the Pakistan captain showed confidence in Shadab and gave him the bowling again Shadab lived up to his standards and dismissed Rohit Sharma, and the sequence did not stop there. In the very next over, Shaheen also dismissed Gill.
Now two new batsmen of India were batting on the field: Virat Kohli and KL Rahul.
After this the game continued for some time and then suddenly it started raining heavily on the field, After raining for a long time it stopped but the field was still very wet so the umpire had to wait for a long time.
But after a long wait, there was no change and it started raining lightly, due to which the umpire decided that the match would be postponed to a reserve day and the play would resume from where it had stopped.
The remaining games will start at 3 p.m. on the 11th.
