India defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets and won the Asia Cup title for the 9th time. In this tournament, Team India has crushed Pakistan for the third time. Tilak Verma played an unbeaten innings of 69 runs in this final match, which will be remembered for a long time. But this match will always be memorable for Rinku Singh, because he was playing for the first time in this tournament. He got a chance to play only one ball. But this was the ball on which the story of India’s victory was written. Rinku Singh played the winning shot.
The thrill of the last two overs
In response to Pakistan’s 147 runs, Team India got 3 shocks at the score of 20. But after this Tilak Verma took one end and batted brilliantly with Sanju. After Sanju was dismissed, Tilak played a good innings with Shivam Dubey. But at one time India needed 17 runs to win in 2 overs.
Shivam Dubey was dismissed on the last ball of the 19th over. After this, India needed 10 runs to win in the last over. Rinku Singh came to bat. Tilak took 2 runs off the first ball. On the second ball, Tilak hit a six and took a single on the third ball. After this, Rinku came to bat. He hit a four off the fourth ball and gave India a victory.
Let us know that while batting first, Pakistan’s team was reduced to the score of 146. Bumrah-Akshar and Varun got 2-2 wickets. Kuldeep took 4 wickets. Farhan scored the most runs for Pakistan. Chasing the target, India won this match on the basis of Tilak Verma’s unbeaten 69 runs.
India (playing XI): ABhishak Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty.
Pakistan (playing XI): SaHibzada Farhan, Fakhar Zaman, Sam Ayub, Salman Aga (captain), Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed.
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