Asia Cup 2018: Not just the century but this move of skipper Rohit Sharma confirmed India's victory on Pakistan
Team India won the super 4 matches against Pakistan on Sunday and one of the reasons why team India won the match was bowler Jaspreet Bumrah. During Pakistan's inning experienced batsman Shoaib Malik was looking in form and his wicket turned out a big point for team India.
Shoaib Malik got out on India's best bowler in death overs Jaspreet Bumrah bowling. When Malik got out the score of Pakistan's team was 203 runs and he played a brilliant knock of 78 runs on 90 balls in which he hit 4 fours and two sixes.
It was Shoaib Malik's 43rd half century and if Malik has not got out the score of Pakistan team could have reached to more than 270 runs. After Malik's wicket, Pakistan team just be able to make 26 runs in last five overs and because of this the team only made 237 runs on 7 wickets.
7000 ODI runs for @ImRo45. Congratulations to the captain for this remarkable feat #TeamIndia #AsiaCup #INDvPAK pic.twitter.com/lqTBA6u6EI
— BCCI (@BCCI) September 23, 2018
Although, before 44th over it was Bhuvneshwar Kumar who was bowling and in his last over he got 22 runs. So in that case skipper, Rohit Sharma gave the bowl to Jaspreet Bumrah to bowl 44th over. In the 44th over, Jaspreet Bumrah took the wicket of Shoaib Malik and MS Dhoni caught with a beautiful dive.
Meanwhile, both the openers of Indian team Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan played a brilliant opening knock and made centuries. With the help of centuries team, India beat Pakistan once again in a huge gap.
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First published: 24 September 2018, 11:06 IST