{"id":159409,"date":"2025-09-21T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:06:13","slug":"abhishek-sharma-powers-indian-cricket-team-to-win-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159409\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Sharma powers Indian cricket team to win against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian cricket team<\/a> cruised to a six-wicket victory against Pakistan in their first Super 4 game of Asia Cup 2025<\/a> as Abhishek Sharma lit up the Dubai Cricket Stadium with a match-winning innings on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Put into bat first, the Pakistan cricket team put on a competitive 171\/5 in their 20 overs. Sahibzada Farhan\u2019s 58 off 45 powered the two-time Asia Cup<\/a> champions to their highest first innings score against India.<\/p>\n

In reply, Abhishek Sharma (74 off 39) and Shubman Gill<\/a> (47 off 28) put on a 105-run opening partnership in 59 balls to set the tone for India, who pulled off their highest chase against Pakistan in 18.5 overs.<\/p>\n

Pakistan made a brisk start with Fakhar Zaman and Sahibzada Farhan opening the innings. Zaman fell to Hardik Pandya in the third over but Saim Ayub – coming in after three successive ducks – stitched a partnership of 72 off 49 balls with Farhan to keep the scoring rate near nine an over.<\/p>\n

After getting to 55\/1 in the powerplay – Pakistan\u2019s best of the tournament – Ayub and Farhan carried the momentum to take their team to 91\/1 at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n

With India\u2019s frontline attack struggling to make inroads, skipper Suryakumar Yadav turned to Shivam Dube. The move paid off as the all-rounder\u2019s clever changes of pace removed Ayub in the 11th over and Farhan on the first ball of the 15th.<\/p>\n

Pakistan went six overs without a boundary, managing just 30 runs between overs 11 and 16. Faheem Ashraf\u2019s late flourish – 20 from eight balls – lifted Pakistan to 171, with 50 runs coming in the last four overs. It was their highest total against India when batting first in T20Is.<\/p>\n

For India, Jasprit Bumrah<\/a> endured a rare off day, finishing with 0\/45 – his third-most expensive spell in T20Is.<\/p>\n

India, however, had a great start with Abhishek Sharma kicking off the innings with a six off a short ball bowled by Shaheen Afridi.<\/p>\n

India ended the powerplay at 69\/0 – their best against Pakistan – with both Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill showing their range of shots.<\/p>\n

Abhishek brought up his half-century in 24 balls in the eighth over with a boundary in the cover region.<\/p>\n

The pair completed the 100-run partnership in the ninth over. Faheem Ashraf broke the partnership in the next over, cleaning up Shubman Gill\u2019s off stump with a cross-seamed delivery.<\/p>\n

Abhishek Sharma was dismissed in the 13th over, leaving India to get just 49 off 46 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Though Suryakumar Yadav was dismissed for a duck, Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya ensured India got past the finishing line with seven balls to spare.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the group stage, India chased down Pakistan\u2019s 128-run target with seven wickets and 25 balls to spare. India finished top Group A with three wins out of three, while Pakistan finished second with two victories.<\/p>\n

India will play Bangladesh next in their second match of the Super 4 Stage on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

IND vs PAK Asia Cup 2025, Super 4 match brief scores: Pakistan 171\/5 in 20 overs (Sahibzada Farhan 58, Shivam Dube 2\/33) lost to India 174\/4 in 18.5 overs (Abhishek Sharma 74, Haris Rauf 2\/26) by six wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indian cricket team cruised to a six-wicket victory against Pakistan in their first Super 4 game of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-159409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}