Sports News: India defeated Pakistan by seven wickets in the Group A match of Asia Cup 2025 on 14 September (Sunday) and made it to the top 4 of the tournament. The controversy over the players not shaking hands surpassing the match may have created a buzz, but the performance of the Indian team on the field was spanking-new in every sense. Pakistan's team could score only 128 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, while India achieved the target comfortably with 25 balls to spare. This victory once then proved that the Indian team is whiz at turning pressure into opportunity on the big stage.
Irfan Pathan gave a strong reaction regarding Pakistan
After this big win of India, former Indian fast bowler Irfan Pathan strongly criticized the Pakistan team. He said that many domestic teams of India moreover have the worthiness to defeat Pakistan. He specifically named the domestic teams of Mumbai and Punjab and said that both these teams can defeat Pakistan. Pathan plane said that many franchise teams of Indian Premier League (IPL) can moreover win the match versus Pakistan at the international level.
Irfan said that if you ask me which Indian domestic team is capable of defeating Pakistan, I would say Mumbai can definitely do it, Punjab can moreover do it and as far as IPL teams are concerned, many teams can write-up Pakistan.
Indian bowlers uprooted the roots of Pakistan
In this match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first, but the Indian bowlers put pressure on the opposition batsmen from the very beginning. Especially the trio of spin bowlers Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel and Varun Chakraborty did not requite any endangerment to the Pakistani batsmen to score runs.
Kuldeep Yadav took 3 wickets for just 18 runs, while Akshar and Varun moreover bowled economically and took wickets at crucial moments. If Shaheen Afridi had not hit some big shots in the last overs, Pakistan's score would not have reached plane 120 runs. Ultimately the unshortened Pakistani team could score only 128 runs without losing 9 wickets in 20 overs.
Suryakumar and Abhishek gave an easy victory
Chasing a modest target of 128 runs, India unexplored an warlike tideway from the start. Opener Abhishek Sharma gave the team a strong start by playing a quick innings of 31 runs. Without this, Suryakumar Yadav and the tutorage put the match in India's bag by making a half-century partnership for the third wicket. Suryakumar not only handled the innings, but moreover scored fast runs, while the tutorage played an unbeaten innings of 47 runs and led the team to victory with 25 balls remaining.
