Pakistan crushed archrival India by 10 wickets for its first-ever triumph against its archrival successful a T20 World Cup crippled connected Sunday.
Captain Babar Azam (68 not out) and Mohammad Rizwan (79 not out) struck superb unbeaten fractional centuries and eased Pakistan to 152-0 successful 17.5 overs successful Group 2 of the Super 12s.
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Fast bowler Shaheen Afridi (3-31) had earlier rattled India's apical bid by removing some openers -- Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul -- successful his archetypal 2 overs earlier skipper Virat Kohli’s 57 disconnected 49 balls took the 2007 champion to 151-7.
Babar won the flip and opted to chase. The determination paid disconnected arsenic Rizwan toyed with Indian bowlers arsenic they struggled with the bedewed shot erstwhile dew settled successful the 2nd fractional of the game.
It was Pakistan’s first-ever triumph by 10 wickets against immoderate absorption successful a T20 portion India besides faced the ignominy of losing by specified a borderline for the archetypal time.
"This is conscionable the start, we person assurance to physique connected now," Babar said aft his side's historical win. "It volition stay lucifer by lucifer for us."
"The unit connected america wasn't that overmuch - we weren't reasoning of the grounds against India astatine all. I lone wanted to backmost each our players who've been preparing well.
"When you play tournaments earlier a large World Cup, it helps and our players came successful with a batch of assurance due to the fact that of that."
The effect was a monolithic stroke to the tourney favourites India, with Kohli lamenting the nonaccomplishment of aboriginal wickets during his side's batting powerplay.
"We did not execute the things that we wanted to but recognition is surely owed - they outplayed america today," helium said.
"When you suffer 3 aboriginal it's precise hard to travel back, particularly erstwhile you cognize the dew is coming.
"They were precise nonrecreational with the bat arsenic well. Hitting done the enactment was not arsenic casual successful the archetypal fractional arsenic it seemed successful the Pakistan innings, truthful erstwhile you cognize the conditions tin change, you request 10-20 other runs. But immoderate prime bowling from Pakistan didn't fto america get disconnected the blocks.
"We're surely not a squad that presses the panic button, it's the commencement of the tournament, not the end."
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