Pakistan have probably the most deadly new-ball assault within the recreation: Sunil Gavaskar forward of IND-PAK Asia Cup conflict

After two-and-a-half video games performed on the ongoing Asia Cup, Pakistan look as entrance runners for the summit conflict with a Super 4 win already of their palms earlier than they tackle India for the second time.

Last Sunday, the Babar Azam led facet had managed to limit India to 265 earlier than rain known as off the group stage match. A win in opposition to Nepal and a shared level was sufficient to see them via to the following spherical the place they registered a snug win in opposition to Bangladesh earlier this week. Ahead of their recreation on Sunday, former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar has heaped praises about their massive power.

“At one point of time it was Australia and Pakistan probably shared that number 1 and number 2 spot because Pakistan have always had top-class new-ball bowlers. But at this point of time, they have the most lethal new-ball attack in the game,” Gavaskar informed India Today.

“They have a left-arm, right-arm combination. They can move the ball both ways at good pace. So, it’s not easy for any batter to get aggressive against them from the word go,” he added.

The tempo trio of Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah share a complete of 23 wickets between them within the three video games thus far at this Asia Cup, and sit as the highest three within the wickets tally. While Haris leads the charts with 9 scalps, Shaheen and Naseem have nabbed seven wickets every.

Round 1 vs India

In their first face off in opposition to India within the ongoing event, the Pakistan tempo triumvirate was capable of declare all 10 wickets for themselves in Pallekele.

The duo of Haris Rauf and Shaheen Afridi would induce an early collapse of the highest order by eradicating Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer with simply 66 runs on the board.

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It was then that Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya added an important 148-runs, India’s highest stand for fifth wicket, to bail the boys in blue out of hazard and information them to a par rating earlier than Shaheen, Naseem and Haris returned to assault and closed the innings for Pakistan.

Even although the sport was finally washed out, one of many larger arguments put in opposition to captain Babar Azam was why he had continued with spinners for too lengthy and allowed Kishan and Pandya to settle from the tempo onslaught.

With 67 wickets between them for Pakistan in ODIs thus far this yr, the three are anticipated to play an enormous function for the facet not simply on Sunday but in addition in the course of the World Cup in India.