T20 World Cup 2024: India won a thriller match against Pakistan. India has Cliched their second victory of the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024. India collapsed to 119 but defended it beautifully. India won by 6 runs against arch-rivalry Pakistan.
Pakistan won the and invited India to bat first. After two early wickets, Indian batter shows their intent and builds a partnership between Rishabh Pant & Axar Patel. Pant scored 42, Axar made 13, and Rohit contributed 13 runs to help India reach 119. Pakistan’s bowlers Naseem Shah & Haris Rauf took 3 wickets respectively.
After a wonderful performance in the first inning, Pakistan will not reach out at 119. Pakistan reasonably controlled the chase around the 10-over point by chasing this small total. Then, Pakistan’s batter started choking and they weren’t capitalized. After 20 overs Pakistan has managed to score 113 runs. Indian bowler has done a tremendous job while bowling. Bumrah led the attack and successfully defended a low total. Bumrah took 3, and Hardik gets 2 wickets.
India inches closer to the Quarterfinal
India already has won 2 matches and is just one win away from the Knockout stage in the World Cup. There were two losses on the bounce for Pakistan in this tournament, and their poor record against India continues.
Lowest targets successfully defended by India in T20I
120 vs Pak New York 2024 *
139 vs Zim Harare 2016
145 vs Eng Nagpur 2017
147 vs Ban Bengaluru 2016
इसके अलावा शीर्ष क्रम में मंगल महरौर (59 रन), स्रमान निग्रोध (45 रन), आयुष लोहारुका (40 रन) और कुमार रजनीश (52 रन) ने भी उपयोगी योगदान दिया। कप्तान साक़ीबुल गनी की अगुवाई में टीम ने संतुलित बल्लेबाजी का प्रदर्शन किया।
