Colombo: The spectators of cricket around the world once again deprived of cricket battle between two arch rivals Pakistan and India owing to heavy downpours for second time as the match was declared finished for the day.
The match move to reserved day as Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Pakistan protest as a host, has placed a reserved day for the biggest battle of the cricket.
Now match will resume tomorrow from the point where the match ended today.
India will start its innings from 25th over on score of 147 off two tomorrow.
India is playing on 147 off two wickets while Virat Kohli 8 runs and KR Rahul 17 runs were on the crease.
Persistent rain forces the #PAKvIND Super 4 match into the reserve day 🏏
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) September 10, 2023
Ticket-holders for today's game will be able to utilise their tickets for the reserve day.#AsiaCup2023 pic.twitter.com/g4sBxolfaF
Until 15th over India was looking victorious as their openers bombarded Pakistan with runs as opening duo partnership scored a brilliant century for India in just 13 overs.
Pakistan succeeded to show it’s guns in 16th over as Indian skipper lost his wicket by scoring a tremendous 56 runs after this dismissal Shubbman Gill sent to pavilion after a heroic inning of 58 runs.
Shadab Khan got a vital wicket of Indian skipper Rohat Sharma while Shaheen Shah Afridi took an important wicket of Shubbman Gill.
Earlier Pakistan skipper Baber Azam has won the toss and invited India to bat first.
Baber has said that he had taken the decision to bowl first after seeing the pitch situation and there is a little moisture in the pitch which will help his fast bowlers.
On the other hand, Indian captain Rohat Sharma said that he is happy over the invitation of playing first as they wanted to bat first. He expressed hope that their team will try to give a big score to Pakistan.
