12th match of ICC Men’s ODI CWC23 is underway at Ahmedabad where world’s biggest arch-rivals are facing each other. Both unbeaten teams in ICC WCW23 are meeting at Ahmedabad in front of nore than 100,000+ crowd.
Earlier in the game, Indian Skipper, Rohat Sharma, offers Babar Azam to bat first on the flat looking track. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s poor streak against India in ICC CWC continjues as the PCT can’t post a handsome total for their bowlers to bowl at as they are bowled out at 191 against IND in the 43rd over.
Indian pace attack look dominating the Pakistani top and middle order. In first 7 overs Pakistani openers don’t give away any wicket but Muhammad Siraj provides 1st breakthrough at the end of 8th over. Imam, Babar and Rizwan play some brilliant shots against spin and pace but suddenly Pakistan’s collapse set India into driving seat.
India employee 4 pacers in their whole bowling line-up besides 2 spinners. Muhammad Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Shardul Thakur bowl 23 overs conceding 115 runs with the economy of 5.00 averaging 19.16. Interestingly, all three right-arm pacers – Bumrah, Siraj and Pandya – pick 2 wickets each. Furthermore, all four pacers concede only 18 boundaries in their 23 overs.
Moreover, the pick of the pacers for India is Bumrah who bowls 33 dot deliveries out of his 7 overs. His dot percentage is 73.57 with averaging under 10. He gives away 19 runs only at 2.71 conceding 3 boundaries. He sends Muhammad Rizwan and Shadab Khan back to the dugout.
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2nd successive pace bowler for India is Pandya who bowls 20 dot delivers out of his 6 over quota. His dot percentage is 55.55 averaging only 17. He concedes 34 runs at 5.66 while allowing 6 boundaries only. He picks the wickets of Imam Ul Haq and Muhammad Nawaz.
The 3rd best bowling figures of pacers for India is 2nd in the ODI bowlers ranking Muhammad Siraj. He bowls 22 dot delivers out of his 8 over quota. His dot percentage is 45.83 averaging 25. He’s the only Indian bowlers out of all 6 with the economy of more than 6. He concedes 50 runs at 6.25 while allowing boundaries 7 only. He picks the wickets of Babadr Azam and Abdullah Shafique.
The Indian pace attack don’t let Pakistani batter to free their arms and rotate strikes. As they collectively bowl 58.70 percent dot deliveries. To be precise, Pakistan couldn’t manage to hit a six in their entire innings which shows a sheer dominance of Indian spin and pace attack.
