India vs Pakistan Live Score, Asia Cup Super 4: KL Rahul and Virat Kohli get India underway at last
India vs Pakistan Live Score, Asia Cup 2023 Super 4: India are 147/2 in 24.1 overs with KL Rahul on 17 (28) and Virat Kohli on 8 (16) .
Persistent rains caused significant delay to the start of play on the reserve day but the match has now resumed. Virat Kohli and KL Rahul took three runs off the first over of the day and took India to the 150-run mark. Despite the delayed start, no overs have been reduced from the day’s proceedings. Incessant showers had kept the players indoors well past the original start time.
They eventually cleared off and umpires inspected the ground at 4.20pm. On Sunday, Shubman Gill raced past his second consecutive ODI half century as he and Rohit Sharma flattened the menacing Pakistan pace attack for the better part of the first 20 overs after Babar Azam won the toss and chose to bowl first. Their opening partnership soared past 100 within the first 14 overs.
Gill got to his half century in 37 balls while Rohit got there soon thereafter with a six, reaching his milestone in 42 balls. Pakistan eventually came back strong with Shadab and Afridi dismissing Rohit and Gill respectively in consecutive games. It brought Virat Kohli and KL Rahul, with the latter taking the injured Shreyas Iyer’s place at No.4. The partnership between the pair was on 24 off 38 balls for the third wicket when heavy rain suddenly made an appearance and forced the players off the ground. Rain was always in the forecast for the day and while much of the day was sunny, once it started pouring, it never really stopped.
While it paused for a long period, a wet patch on the outfield was taking a long time to be dried. However, it looked like the umpires were happy with how it looked at one point and we seemed set for a restart. Overs would have been reduced and Pakistan were most probably set to be presented with a 34-over chase but just before it looked the umpires were about to make an official announcement about the playing conditions, it started drizzling again. This forced the game to be called off and moved to the controversial reserve day.
The reserve day exists only for this particular fixture in the Super Four, which has led to a backlash of sorts from fans and commentators of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and even India and Pakistan. The Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha criticised the decision to award the reserve day only for the India-Pakistan match in a press conference, after which the Bangladesh and Sri Lanka cricket boards released statements saying that the tournament organisers had made the call after consulting with them. As per AccuWeather, there are chances of 80 percent rainfall around 5 pm in Colombo.
The action, on the other hand, resumes at 3:00 pm local time. Meanwhile if we look at the hourly weather forecast on Weather.com, the chances of rain never reduces below 70 percent after 3 pm. As per the information, the maximum chance of pelting is around 5:30pm in the evening.
India vs Pakistan Highlights thus far:
– India resumed batting at 147/2 in 24.1 overs
– KL Rahul was on strike at 17 off 28 balls while Virat Kohli was at the other end on 8 off 16; the pair took India to 150 at the end of the over
– Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had put up an opening stand of 121 runs.
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- Sep 11, 2023 04:57 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Not out! Pakistan don’t have reviews left
- Sep 11, 2023 04:56 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Now then, a review
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Naseem thinks that Kohli has been caught behind down the leg side off the last ball of the 28th. The umpire shakes his head. There was a noise and Babar takes the only review Pakistan have remaining.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:55 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: FOUR! Kohli using the vacant slips area
India vs Pakistan Live Score: That was edged but Kohli seemed to know exactly what it was doing. It runs behind unimpeded for four. Wasim Akram is fuming at the lack of slips in the commentary box.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:52 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: India 155/2 in 27 overs
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rahul has moved to 21 off 40, Kohli on 12 off 21. The two batters taking no big risks, just tapping the ball around. No slips despite Naseem beating both batters for fun. Kohli looking at the clouds but we don’t need to worry about that. Right?
- Sep 11, 2023 04:45 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: India 150/2 in 25 overs
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Three singles off the last three balls and India reach the 150-run mark. Naseem Shah to bowl the 26th over, Pakistan clearly thinking wickets.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:42 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: We go at last!
India vs Pakistan Live Score: KL Rahul is on strike, Shadab Khan bowling the second ball of the 25th over. Finally, at long last, here we go!
- Sep 11, 2023 04:38 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: How things stand
India vs Pakistan Live Score: India are 147/2 in 24.1 overs, almost a Test match session’s worth of cricket happened yesterday, for all those missing India-Pakistan Test matches. KL Rahul was on strike on 17 off 28, Virat Kohli at the other end on eight off 16. Shadab Khan was bowling his seventh over.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:34 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Morne Morkel on Haris Rauf
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The Pakistan bowling coach spoke about the decision to the host broadcasters. “Haris started feeling his oblique muscle in his second over. He was able to bowl but went for scans yesterday. With the World Cup around the corner, we just thought it’s better to put him under the ice.”
- Sep 11, 2023 04:27 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: HARIS RAUF TO NOT BOWL!
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well that is extraordinary news coming in from the Pakistan camp. It seems like this is a precautionary measure for them. How big a blow is that for Pakistan. For now, he, Shaheen and Naseem can be seen chatting with Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:22 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Match to resume at 4.40pm
India vs Pakistan Live Score: No overs lost. We finally have a resumption time. Kohli has gone back in and changed into his playing kit. It looks nice and clear.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:22 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The state of the ground
There is a big patch of grass just around the part where the bowlers will have their run-ups. The likes of Bumrah and Afridi are running over that quite comfortably.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:11 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Inspection at 4.20pm!
India vs Pakistan Live Score: “Update: We will have an inspection at 4:20 PM IST,” says the BCCI on its X handle. The players have officially started their warm-ups. The conditions are bright and sunny at long last and so this is all looking very good indeed. But chaos theory has reigned supreme thus far in this fixture so keep doing your rain dances.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:10 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: AB De Villiers on facing Shaheen Afridi
The South Africa great spoke on his Youtube channel about what he would do if he was facing Afridi. “For me left handers swinging the ball into me, I would always cover the ball coming in. I always found it a little similar to facing spin bowling. So when facing Shaheen I would be very straight, hitting to mid-on and straight past the bowler. If he gets it away to his slips, I would back my hands and my ability to either let it go late or play it through covrs. Unfortunately for the batters, he is pretty quick as well so you can’t really come out of your crease,” he said.
- Sep 11, 2023 04:05 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Virat Kohli out for some throwdowns
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The umpires chatted with Rahul Dravid and some of the Pakistna players. Dravid then promptly went back to the dressing room and spoke with Kohli. He has since walked out and is facing some throwdowns. Ticking down now.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:57 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Some players come out now
Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Siraj from India and Babar Azam from Pakistan are taking a look at the pitch now. There seems to be some more stirrings in the dressing room and soon, Jasprit Bumrah, Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf walk out sharing a few laughs.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:53 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Some more positives
The umpires are walking around. Unlike yesterday there doesn’t seem to be any wet patches on the parts of the ground that are currently uncovered. This is the most promising phase of the day yet.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:49 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Some of the covers peeled off
India vs Pakistan Live Score: This is the greenest the ground has looked in a while now and the clearest the sky has been thus far. Now this particular update looks much more promising than the false alarms earlier. Also, we can see Rahul Dravid walk towards the pitch. The umpires are making their way out as well. Baited breaths please.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:41 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Movement on the ground
India vs Pakistan Live Score: But don’t get your hopes up. It is only the ground staff, inspecting the covers. The rain has stopped, again. And they are taking some of the covers off, again. Let’s see if there is going to be any value to this.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:33 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Indian players chat outside dressing room
India vs Pakistan Live Score: A few others join KL Rahul and Prasidh Krishna outside the dressing room.
They are having a chat amongst themselves and going by what we can see it seems we have to wait much longer for the action to start.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:22 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: No signs of play yet
India vs Pakistan Live Score: As per the live visuals and the covers are back on and the groundstaffs are ensuring to keep the ground as dry as possible.
KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna are outside the dressing room, but they are not in the official kit but in the jersey, which they wear while training.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:11 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The conditions today
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well the playing conditions are the same as yesterday. If we do get a restart soon (unlikely), it will be a 50-over match, provided there are no more delays after that (even more unlikely). The cut-off for having a 20-over chase is as late as 10.36pm.
- Sep 11, 2023 03:02 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: A smattering of fans
India vs Pakistan Live Score: There are a few poor folks sitting in the stands. They have come all decked up in India and Pakistan colours but they are only sitting quietly with sullen faces. Babar, Rizwan, Iftikhar, Naseem and a few others are sitting in and around their dugout by the ground. The Indians, meanwhile, are in the dressing room, with Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya standing by the window.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:58 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: And the covers come back
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The world is a cruel place after all, all joy is only shortlived. So was this one. The ground is all blue once again as the rain returns.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:44 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Pitch being uncovered
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well, well, well, the covers are being taken off over the pitch. It normally means that the ground staff feels there is going to be no more rain. Or else It could be just an exercise in shuffling a few covers here and there, something that happened a number of times yesterday.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:41 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Sachin Tendulkar wishing for some sun
India vs Pakistan Live Score: “Hope the sun shines as bright in Colombo today too!” he said on his X handle with a photo of him tanning it up under the sun somewhere in the world. The conditions look good, can this match be shifted there? Maybe not
- Sep 11, 2023 02:31 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: If the rain stops
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Chances of a quick start after the rains stop and the covers get taken away is high as the ground staff had covered the ground up well before the major rains started coming down. There are puddles on the cover though and so just the act of taking off the covers is going to be a tricky one.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:24 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: No respite
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Not a single person can be seen in the stands. We are supposed to be just over half an hour away from the restart but the players are still in their training kits. And they are doing anything but training. The rain has set in and it is belting down at the moment on the ground.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:09 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Scenes from the ground
India vs Pakistan Live Score: We can see Mohammed Rizwan munching on something from a bowl and chatting away with the ground staff. Apart from that, the stadium is as empty as it gets, not something you get to see too often ahead of an India-Pakistan match. It is all dark and gloomy and if the rain does stop on time, any wet patches on the ground will require more management.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:06 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The teams are at the venue
India vs Pakistan Live Score: But none of the players are in the middle as the “middle” is blue and shiny. The entire ground has been covered up and it is still drizzling.
- Sep 11, 2023 02:00 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Forecast for the afternoon
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Sri Lankan news states that there is only 50-60% chances of rain over the course of the afternoon. Do remember that India and Sri Lanka are in the same timezones so there is no calculations you have to do to understand what “afternoon” would mean here.
- Sep 11, 2023 01:49 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Pouring in Colombo!
India vs Pakistan Live Score: We have runout of good news and good luck. It was sunny in Colombo but it seems that the weather in the city has alternated between bright and dark all day long. Rains have not been absent altogether and at the moment, it is pouring in sheets over the city.
- Sep 11, 2023 01:31 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Fan technology
India vs Pakistan Live Score: No, we are not talking about cool technology that is helping elevate the fan experience at the R Premadasa. Instead, we are talking about literal fans. The wet patch in the outfield was proving to be difficult to dry up and one of the many methods used yesterday, was to blast pedestal fans on it. They were also used on the pitch to get it ready as soon as possible. Alas, even that piece of innovation didn’t work.
- Sep 11, 2023 01:31 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: A reminder…
India vs Pakistan Live Score: KL Rahul was on strike at 17 off 28 balls while Virat Kohli was at the other end on 8 off 16 when the umpires led the players off the field yesterday. Shadab Khan was bowling his seventh over.
- Sep 11, 2023 01:16 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: What the umpires had said yesterday before calling off the game
India vs Pakistan Live Score: “We have got two main issues, near square leg and point, they are quiet wet and soft. The foundation of the ground there is too soft and dangerous for the players. We are trying to dry it with fans and will have a look in another 10-12 minutes. We think we are trying our best as groundstaff, possible looking at 9pm start but we have to see how it goes,” said umpires Chris Gaffaney and Ruchira Palliyaguruge before it became clear that no more play was possible.
- Sep 11, 2023 01:05 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: And the clouds clear up
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well, there are good murmurs coming from Colombo. Blue skies have prevailed in their battle with the dark ones for now above the R Premadasa Stadium and the ground is bathed in sunlight. Bring your best rain dances and black magic equipment if you believe those can help in keeping those clouds away.
- Sep 11, 2023 12:57 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Kumble on India’s lack of part-timers
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Former India captain and former India head coach Anil Kumble feels that India should have actively developed these part-time options in the years between the last ODI World Cup and this one. “One problem which needed to be addressed from the last World Cup to this one is that we needed more all-rounders.
Which has never been addressed. We don’t have batters who can come and give you those options. Bowlers giving you some batting is secondary but I think batters giving you bowling options certainly increases the depth. We had four years. You had to develop those players. Instructions had to be given (and team management) should have identified those players.
For example, Yashasvi Jaiswal I know bowls leg spin. But I have hardly seen him bowl in any match in the last one year. Shreyas Iyer gives a bit of bowling but now I don’t know with his back issues whether he will do that. Rohit used to bowl before he had the shoulder dislocation. You need options.”
- Sep 11, 2023 12:48 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: India’s lack of part-time bowlers
India vs Pakistan Live Score: This era of Indian cricket is different from the previous one in the way that India’s batters almost never bowl. This stands in stark contrast to what India had in the previous generation. Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina were all world class batters but they were also extremely useful with the ball.
Yuvraj famously won the player of the tournament in the 2011 World Cup for his all-round efforts. The current Indian team has Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel as proper all-rounders. However, Jadeja and Axar are used mutually exclusively which means that at a time, while Jadeja is very much a vital cog of the spin department, as opposed to being a part-timer.
The same can be said about Pandya and his importance as a third or fourth seamer. There are no Sehwags or Tendulkars or Yuvrajs to spice things up when the going gets tough at the moment.
- Sep 11, 2023 12:37 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Afridi and Bumrah’s bonhomie
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Jasprit Bumrah recently became a father and he had missed India’s last match against Nepal for the birth of his child. Shaheen Afridi, who is set to tie the knot in the next few months, won a few hearts by acknowledging that.
In a video shared by the official Twitter handle of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), speedster Afridi was seen congratulating Bumrah on becoming a father. Pace ace Bumrah and his wife Sanjana Ganesan became parents to a baby boy last week. During his unforgettable interaction with Bumrah, Pakistan’s star pacer Afridi gave a special gift to the Indian pacer, who exchanged wedding vows with popular sports presenter Sanjana in 2021
- Sep 11, 2023 12:23 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit only behind Tendulkar in Asia Cup
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma is only behind Sachin Tendulkar in the list of highest rungetters for India at the ODI Asia Cup. Rohit has smashed 886 runs in 25 ODIs while Tendulkar amassed 971 in 23 games. Meanwhile he surpassed Tendulkar’s record of half centuries in the Asia Cup with his knock on Sunday. This was his eighth half century in the tournament, thus helping him pull level with Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara (8). Rohit played a blazing knock of 56 off 49 balls. The Indian captain laced his innings with six fours and four sixes. Batting at a strike rate of over 114, Rohit was dismissed by Shadab Khan in the 17th over.
- Sep 11, 2023 12:16 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Waqar Younis all praise for India’s all-rounders
Waqar Younis feels that the presence of batters of Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja’s calibre makes the Indian batting a strong unit. “Look at what Hardik and Jadeja bring to the table. They are well equipped with both bat and ball. Especially Hardik Pandya – the way he batted against Pakistan – I think he is a really destructive batter at No. 6. Any team would love to have someone like him.
He is aggressive, and now as we saw in the previous match, he is very sensible and smart. He played like a champion. He took his time and when the time was right, he pushed his natural game. I feel that these 2 at No. 6 and 7 will give India that push. All they want to do is not lose early wickets. If you give these 2 last 10 overs, they can chase the game pretty quickly.”” the former Pakistan pacer told the host broadcaster.
- Sep 11, 2023 12:06 PM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rules for reserve day
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The reserve day will be a continuation of a match and not a restart. So the score from the scheduled match day will be carried forward to the reserve day. India in this case will resume from 147/2 and will hope to pile as many runs in the remaining 25.5 overs. A minimum of 20 overs must be bowled in both innings to determine a result. India at that moment were batting at 147/2 in 24.1 overs with Virat Kohli and KL Rahul present in the middle. For more on how this day can go down, y
- Sep 11, 2023 11:54 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Schedule conundrum for India
India vs Pakistan Live Score: This unscheduled reserve day comes with a bit of a problem for India. Technically, they would now be playing matches on three consecutive days as they are now scheduled to take on Sri Lanka tomorrow at the same ground. Moreover, if we have a full match today, India will be bowling for much of it and so their fast bowlers and fielders, among whom will be the freshly returned KL Rahul who is also expected to put in a shift with the bat, will be stretched physically. Not an ideal scenario by any means for Rohit Sharma and Co.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:46 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Kohli nearing 13k
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Kohli is just 10 runs away from getting 13,000 career runs in ODIs. He will be the fastest to get there by some distance. Kohli is currently playing 267th ODI innings and Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for fastest to 13,000 runs, having got there in 321 innings. He will also be the fifth batter in the world to have got to that mark after Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara. Among the top 10 ODI run scorers of all time, Kohli has the highest average by a mile. Sachin Tendulkar has the second highest average after Kohli in that club with 44.83 in 463 matches.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:40 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Virat Kohli
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well, Rohit Sharma is not the only all-time great in this Indian team. In fact, if Rohit has been prolific, Kohli gives that word a whole new definition. Kohli has scored 12,910 runs (yes, no typos there) in 278 matches at an average of 57.12 (no typos there either) and strike rate of 93.55 (wait, there is a typo there. Nope, just kidding). He has scored 46 centuries and 65 half-centuries. If his average seems abnormally high, do note that it has come down in recent years from the 60s due to the downturn in form he experienced between 2019 and 2021. He has been watchful thus far in this innings, which is exactly what India need, scoring eight runs in 16 balls with no boundaries yet.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:31 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit’s incredible career stats
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma is one of the greatest ODI opening batters of all time and his stats only establish the fact even further. He has scored 9978 runs at an average of 48.91 in 247 matches and an incredible strike rate of 90.19 with 30 centuries and 50 half-centuries. Famously, three of those centuries were converted into double hundreds, making him the only male cricketer to do so. This includes a record 264 off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in November 2014. That remains the highest score by any player in men’s ODI cricket by a long shot and it has repeatedly been referred to as the kind of record that can never be surpassed.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:29 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit inching closer to 10k club
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma fell on 56 off 49 balls on Sunday. That left his career ODI tally at 9978 runs, just 22 runs short of 10,000. If he gets there, he will be the sixth Indian batter to reach 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He will also be the only active Indian cricketer apart from Virat Kohli to have 10,000 ODI runs. Overall, he would be the 15th cricketer to have reached the milestone. It is not just among active Indian cricketers that Rohit would be the only one apart from Kohli to get there. In fact, the third highest active run scorer behind these two is Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim who has 7388 runs.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:24 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: In the record books
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rohit and Gill are the sixth Indian opening pair to put up century stands in two consecutive matches. They join Raman Lamba-K Srikkanth, Ajay Jadeja-Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly-Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag-Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma-Shikhar Dhawan in that list. Needless to say, Rohit is the only batter apart from Tendulkar to have featured more than once in this list. Rohit and Gill have smashed 685 runs while batting together in the 50-over format. The Indian openers have achieved a stunning average of 76.11 in ODI cricket. It is quite clear now that regardless of how India lineup below them, and indeed Virat Kohli at No.3, Rohit and Gill will lead their charge in the World Cup.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:13 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: The Rohit-Gill opening stand
India vs Pakistan Live Score: If one thought the Indian openers would come out with an intention to survive, how they were proven wrong. Rohit and Gill punished Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah, and later Faheem Ashraf in the first 10 overs, for any loose delivery that they would bowl. It meant that India soared to 61/0 in the first 10 overs and it only increased after that. At the point where the partnership ended, the run rate was approaching 7.50. They put up 121 runs for the opening stand, the second consecutive century partnership between them. The Pakistan bowlers, who seemed to be largely on the money early on, were completely thrown off their line with that salvo.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:08 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Gill back to his best?
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Shubman Gill has had a tough time of it in the second half of the year after pretty much going on overdrive in all formats during the first half. However, he had a good outing in India’s previous match against Nepal and on Sunday, showed that this was no fluke. He had a jittery start against the brilliant Naseem Shah, almost getting out caught at point first ball. But after that, Gill was in total control to the point that he almost entirely took over the scoring from Rohit Sharma after the second over until the 10th. Gill scored 58 off 52 balls before finally falling to Shaheen Afridi. The World Cup will be played in home conditions somewhat similar to what was there at the R Premadasa yesterday. All good signs for India.
- Sep 11, 2023 11:05 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: If it is washed out today…
India vs Pakistan Live Score: … well then we have run out of days reserved for this match, for now at least. Today is a long day and you never know what the organisers might think up to negate this weather issue. Likelihood of more arbitrary reserve days are low but you never know with these. As it stands, the two teams will share points and this game will have no result.
- Sep 11, 2023 10:57 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: How it looks in Colombo
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Well the images and the forecasts don’t look promising at all but hey, this is an India-Pakistan match. What is heaven and earth in front of this extravaganza, eh? Well the Asia Cup organisers proved that tournament conditions, at least, were nothing in front of it by organising this reserve day.
- Sep 11, 2023 10:44 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: How the scoreline stands
If we indeed have an actual resumption today, India will be on 147/2 in 24.1 overs. Virat Kohli is in the middle on eight runs while KL Rahul will be on strike on 17.
- Sep 11, 2023 10:37 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Shreyas Iyer worry for India
There are no details on the injury that Iyer is suffering apart from what Rohit said at the toss, which is that he suffered from back spasms just before the game. It was Iyer’s back that forced him to sit out in a long injury break for all these months and so the fact that it has acted up again might be a cause of worry for the Indians.
- Sep 11, 2023 10:30 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: What Babar Azam said at the toss
“We will bowl first. I think there is a bit of moisture, we need to use that. Always, India Pakistan is high intensity, but we will take it match to match. As a team, we are playing well, we are focused on this one. No changes”
- Sep 11, 2023 10:23 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: What Rohit Sharma said at the toss
“Looking to bat first. There will be a challenge upfront, but the way we guys batted last time around gives us confidence. Every game is important for us, but one thing at a time to focus on. (On rain delays) That’s the nature of the sport, it gave us good time to prepare and now we’ll look to play well. Two changes – Bumrah is back and one forced change, Shreyas Iyer just got a back spasm so KL Rahul comes in for him.”
- Sep 11, 2023 10:17 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Which side the toss fell on
Pakistan had won the toss and chose to bowl first. While Babar Azam said that there were no changes in the team, Rohit Sharma stated that Shreyas Iyer is suffering from a back spasm and KL Rahul takes his place. That meant that India could play both Rahul and Ishan Kishan, as opposed to choosing between the two. Kishan retained his place as the wicketkeeper.
- Sep 11, 2023 10:12 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Pakistan XI
Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf
- Sep 11, 2023 10:08 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: India XI
Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
- Sep 11, 2023 10:06 AM IST
India vs Pakistan Live Score: Hello and welcome back!
India are 147/2 in 24.1 overs. Well thank goodness for reserve days, right? Not so much if you are in Colombo. As opposed to what was the case yesterday, the day has started nice and wet today and rain is the forecast for much of it. Yesterday it looked like we might be soon set for a restart when a drizzle threw cold water all over the good work. Today might be more of a Colombo weather watch than a cricket match. Keep your fingers crossed so that destiny somehow decides otherwise.
