The grates are gone now. Virat Kohli an Rohit sharma has to settel on the couch instead of playing. Babar Azam and Rizwan will be needing tickets just to even enter in the ground. A page had turn, like it happend before when those four came in the center stage – and now its like the moment of Abhishek Sharma, Saim Ayub, Salman Agha and Shubman Gill.
If it was some other times, this maybe could be a salivating kind of prospect, atleast intriging. But Sunday is going to mark first time India vs Pakistan in this new klimete after Pahalgam. And maybe when game going on and there is some prety shot or a perfct ball, we feel that old flutter again. Somebody new to cheer for (or even aganist, becuse honestly that is fun too).
Pakistan also got seam bowling allrounder’s in the squad who can letting team to invest heavy in spin, like it was happen in there Asia Cup opener. But maybe they wanna bring Haris Rauf back again.
Pakistan (probble 11):
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Sahibzada Farhan
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Saim Ayub
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Fakhar Zaman
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Salman Agha (capt)
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Hasan Nawaz
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Mohammad Haris (wk)
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Mohammad Nawaz
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Faheem Ashraf
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Shaheen Shah Afridi
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Sufiyan Muqeem
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Abrar Ahmad
Pitch & conditons: Big match on hot nite.
Dubai not really a high scoring ground. The avg runrate first inngs in last 2 year (36 T20s) was just 7.7. Fast bowler’s took more wicket (277 out of 441) but spinner’s were more economy (7.03 vs 8.36). No rain will come but heat gonna be stiffling.
Stat’s n trivia:
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Chasing side has won 7 of the 8 T20Is btw India and Pak since start of 2014, including 3 in Dubai.
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Hardik Pandya is leading wicket taker in mens Ind vs Pak T20I with 13 strike from 6 inngs. He took three 3-fors in those inngs and just avg 12 run per wicket with ball.
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Since last meet in WC T20, India has record runrate 9.66 (3rd best among Full Membars) while Pak are only 8.12 (7th best).