Asia Cup 2023: After Premadasa high, India face the hard yards
Updated On: 12 September, 2023 09:18 AM IST | Colombo | R Kaushik
SL are sitting on a 13-match winning streak and have bowled out all opponents during that period. India will face a stiff test, as much of their fortitude and stamina as their all-round skills that were on full view on Sunday and Monday
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Virat Kohli celebrates his century yesterday. Pic/AFP
At 10:02 pm on Monday, some 31 hours and two minutes after the first ball had been bowled the previous afternoon, the final ball of the 20th over of Pakistan’s chase was sent down by Kuldeep Yadav. It was an uneventful delivery—a single to long-off for Agha Salman—but it ensured that the reserve day that was pencilled in at the last minute for only this Super Four game of the Asia Cup served its purpose.
No matter what happened from that point on, there would be a winner; the odds at that time favoured India, who had ridden on blazing centuries from Virat Kohli and the returning KL Rahul to amass 356 for two in 50 overs. At the time of going to press, Pakistan were 96 for five at the conclusion of 24 overs. India’s pacers making the most of the generous seam assistance to fire out the top order. Hardik Pandya landed the big fish, producing a wonderful break-back to castle Babar Azam, after Jasprit Bumrah had breathed fire in a terrific five-over opening burst in his first ODI since July last year.
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