IND VS PAK T20 World Cup: A smile And A quick reaction on Pandya’s Face After Taking Haider Ali’s wicket

Fans awaited the match IND VS PAK was held at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on October 23, was a nail-biting match as expected. The audience was set and the cheers were on, it showed how tough was the battle between India and Pakistan. India beat Pakistan by 4 wickets, and the pendulum swung both ways, as the fortunes bowlers of both sides. But it was again Virat Kohli the saviour and the man hidden back of the victory that was achieved under pressure.

At first, Team India won the toss and decided to bowl first as usual. The destructive openers of Pakistan Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were ready to take charge, to play some good cricketing shots with an attacking mindset. It was Arshdeep who stirred a storm early on as the overcast conditions suited his left-arm pacers and he gave India a perfect start, getting rid of Pakistan’s Captain and opener Babar Azam for a golden duck with his very first delivery by leg before. Later, he also accounted for the redoubtable Mohammad Rizwan with a swinging short delivery.

Having found themselves in a spot of fifteen for two wickets, Pakistan needed a good partnership to set a target of above hundred and fifty runs, looking over the conditions. The duo survived the nervy phase and steadily guided Pakistan out of choppy waters with a seventy-six-run partnership for the third wicket and the scoring rate was slow till the powerplay.

As soon as Axar Patel was introduced Iftikhar Ahmed targeted with three huge sixes and then recovered the run rate. Mohammad Shami was brought back for a spell and gave India a massive breakthrough by dismissing Iftikhar with LBW on a fifty-one run.

This wicket triggered a mini collapse and all-rounder Hardik came into the attack and took three crucial wickets of Shadab Khan, Haider Ali, and Mohammad Nawaz. He took both the wickets in fourteen over the second ball, Shadab gave a catch too long on to Surya Kumar Yadav, and on the sixth ball of the same over, Haider Ali swung hard across the line but that wasn’t connected properly and goes into the hands of mid-on to the same fielder.

By watching this Hardik feels it funny to laugh the same thing has happened to Shadab and now Haider, it was the trap of Hardik setting up the mid-on and bowling the short ball. As a result, Hardik’s plan was successful and he felt happy.