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SportsIndia v Pakistan: Hardik Pandya pilot India to dramatic Asia Cup win

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India v Pakistan: Hardik Pandya pilot India to dramatic Asia Cup win

India and Pakistan played each other in the opening game of the Asia Cup, with India winning in a thrilling final over.

Hardik smashed the fourth ball of the last over for six to secure a five-wicket victory with India needing to score 148 runs off of 20 overs.

Hardik finished 33 not out from 17 in reply to Pakistan’s 147 all out.

Virat Kohli also made 35 from 34 balls before he was caught off left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz, who took 3-33 and bowled the final over in Dubai.

After Jadeja fell for 35, new batter Dinesh Karthik took a single and Nawaz bowled a dot ball but, with six needed from three, Hardik cleared the long-on boundary.

Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 43 from 42 balls for Pakistan, while India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 4-26 as Babar Azam’s side was dismissed in 19.5 overs.

It was the great rivals’ first meeting since the T20 World Cup last autumn, an encounter Pakistan won by 10 wickets.

The win puts India top of Group A in the Asia Cup – which is being played in the Twenty20 format in this edition – above Pakistan and Hong Kong. Afghanistan thrashed Sri Lanka in the Group B opener on Saturday – a group that also includes Bangladesh.

The top two teams in each group go into the Super Four phase, which is then played in a round-robin format before the top two meet in the final on 11 September.

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