“Party Shuru!!”- Twitter reacts as a calm Hardik Pandya finishes off in style vs Pakistan; India wins by 5 wickets
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Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja
India defeated Pakistan by five wickets at the Dubai International Stadium in UAE in the Asia Cup 2022. Hardik Pandya smashed the winning six, helping India avenge the 2021 T20 World Cup’s 10-wicket defeat.
Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl first and bundle Pakistan on just 147 runs. India responded with Rohit and KL Rahul walking to bat first with the latter got out on golden duck off Naseem Shah.
Virat Kohli and Rohit then stitched half-century run partnership but Mohammad Nawaz caught these two big fish on consecutive balls. Rohit played 18 balls to score 12 runs including a six. After his wicket, Kohli got bowled out by Nawaz. He played 35 runs off 34 balls that included three boundaries and a six. But Nawaz tossed the ball up and Kohli danced down the pitch and looked to go over the long off. But Iftikhar caught his ball comfortably.
Suryakumar Yadav scored 18 runs off 18 balls with a six before Naseem Shah bolwed him too. Pakistan bowlers were finding it difficult to have breakthrough when Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja were batting.
Jadeja played 29 balls to contribute 35 runs with two boundaries and two sixes. But in the penultimate over, to the shock of many, he became a victim of Nawaz.
Hardik Pandya played 17 balls and scored an unbeaten 33 runs with four boundaries and a six at in impressive strike rate of 194.12. The lone six was smashed in the final over to help Men in Blue win the match by five wickets.
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