T20 World Cup 2021: “End of the streak” – Netizens go berserk as Pakistan beat India for the first time in WC history

T20 World Cup 2021: “End of the streak” – Netizens go berserk as Pakistan beat India for the first time in WC history

Pakistan batters Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan

The Indian cricket team’s unbeaten streak against Pakistan in World Cup matches has finally come to an end on Sunday. Babar Azam and his men registered a clinical victory of 10 wickets to outperform the opposition in all three aspects of the game.

Pak skipper won the all-important toss and opted to bowl first at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai. Both the sides took the field with respective playing XI s on the expected lines.

Batting first, India lost both their openers – Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul inside the powerplay. Following this, they kept losing wickets at regular intervals before Kohl (57) and Rishabh Pant (39) helped their side steading the innings. As a result, the ‘Men in Blue’ could only manage to post a par-total of 151/7 on the board at the end of the 20 overs. 

In reply, Pak openers Azam (68*) and Mohammad Rizwan (79*) produced marvellous batting performances to take their side home. All Indian bowlers looked clueless against Pak batters’ prowess as none of them was able to tick the wickets column. Hence, the Pakistani team registered their maiden WC win against India after losing five matches in the previous editions. 

Twitter reactions on Pakistan’s one-sided win against arch-rivals India 

Here are some of the top tweets from today’s IND-PAK game:

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