India-Pakistan cricket match held in Asia Cup 2024 was surely one of the most awaited face offs with two of the most powerful teams of the world. In the Indian team, the team led by Harmanpreet Kaur was set to further unleash their authority on their rivals while the Pakistani team led by Nida Dar wanted to create a major upset. Finally, India’s batting and bowling intimidated Pakistan in every aspect and the women in blue emerged out as winners of the match by considerable margin.
India’s Bowlers Shine in Dominant Performance
The bowling side of India did a pretty good job to restrict the Pakistani side to a score of 108 for the loss of woxic in the stipulated 20 overs. Renuka Singh proved to be the most effective among India bowling line up, she bowled 4 overs and conceded 14 runs and took 2 wickets with the economy rate of 3. 50. Deepti conceded only 20 runs in her 4 overs and had an economy rate of 5 Very good came from the bowling department with Pooja Vastrakar and Shreyanka Patil taking 2 wickets each.
Aggressive Batting Display by India’s Top Order
Captain of the India’s women cricket team Mithali Raj scored highest for her team with 45 runs from 31 balls that includes 9 fours and no sixes, with a strike rate of 145. 16. Shafali Verma made 40 Runs in 29 balls Inclusive of 6 fours and one six at the strike rate of 137. 93 The two openers shared 84 runs to put India on driving seat for the victory. Pacer Hemlata scored 14 runs with 11 balls with 3 fours and a strike rate of 127. 27, while Harmanpreet Kaur scored 5 runs off 15 balls, that to with a strike rate of 45.45 .
Pakistan’s Bowlers Struggle Against India’s Might
Pakistan’s bowlers could not put pressure on Indian batters, Nashra Sandhu was the pick of the bowler who dismissed one Indian batter at the cost of 20 runs in her four overs and scalping an economy of 5. 00. Else Syeda Aroob Shah too emerged as an effective bowler who bowled 3 overs, took 2 wickets and give 9 runs with the economy rate of 3. 00. Sadia Iqbal and Sana also bowled 2 overs each, and gave 18 and 15 respectively having an economy rate of 8. 31 and 7. 50 respectively. The Pakistani bowlers had a poor outing to say the least and the Indian batsmen had quite a field day.
Pakistan’s week Batting Performance
Pakistan’s batting waned and Sidra Ameen manage to score highest of 25 runs off 35 balls consisting of 3 fours with a strike rate of 71. 43. Tuba Hassan, the right-handed batswoman, made 22 runs in 19 deliveries which contain 3 fours with strikes of 115. 79. The other batsmen did not do well, none of the remaining batsmen were able to score more than ten runs. Pakistan batting never looked very fluent, and thus the team managed to score only 108 runs in their stipulated twenty overs. Pakistan’s batters could not put a solid stand together, which proved to be the deciding factor of the game.
In the end, India dominated with the bat and the ball as well, and considering the score was always tilted towards India, the game was a comfortable victory for India. Amazing performance by the Indian team enhanced by team work makes the team a serious contender for the Asia Cup title. For their part, Pakistan will need to think tactfully, map out a new tactics if they are to recover from this unpleasant defeat. The match acted as a worthy representation of the hostile rivalry between these two giants in the cricketing world and the fans are expected to be treated to many more such bitter encounters between these two cricketing nations in the future.