{"id":493,"date":"2014-03-02T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/in-do-or-die-clash-of-asia-cup-pakistan-beat-india\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:53:00","slug":"in-do-or-die-clash-of-asia-cup-pakistan-beat-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"In do-or-die clash of Asia cup, Pakistan beat India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shahid Afridi hit a six in the last over to help Pakistan to a one-wicket win over India, sending them to the top of the Asia Cup table.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Mirpur (Bangladesh):<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span>In a thrilling cricketing clash between here, Pakistan today defeated its rival India in very important match of Asia Cup by 1 wicket here.<\/span><\/div>\n
Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja (52) hit a timely unbeaten half-century as India recovered from a mid-innings collapse to post a modest 245 for eight in their marquee Asia Cup clash against Pakistan here today.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Opener Rohit Sharma (56), who finally found his touch after a lean patch, and Ambati Rayudu (58) also did their bit but none of the batsman could make it big. However, India had at least something on board to fight for.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Rayudu scored 58 from 62 balls, while Jadeja was unbeaten on 52 from 42 balls (4×4, 2×6)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Experienced spinner Saeed Ajmal (3\/40) bowled nicely in the death overs to remove three batsmen while debutant pacer Mohammad Talha (2\/22) and off-spinner Mohammed Hafeez (2\/38) took two wickets apiece.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jadeja made full use of his reprieve on 12 when Hafeez dropped a sitter to post his ninth century.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was Hafeez, who trapped Dhawan to give Pakistan their first breakthrough but India had the match in control with Sharma and Kohli in the middle.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sharma’s approach was different from what he looked after a poor outing in South Africa and New Zealand.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He pulled Gul over square leg to break free and he showed no mercy against pacer Junaid Khan, punching the left arm pacer for consecutive six and four.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Victim of Sharma’s assault, Khan conceded 25 runs from his three overs before being taken away.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The duo mostly scored in boundaries and added a quick 38 runs from 36 balls before Gul gave Pakistan the biggest breakthrough in Kohli.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It turned out to be a soft dismissal as the in-form Indian skipper was done in by an away going delivery when he edged it to the wicketkeeper, looking to work it away towards the third man.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sharma cruised to his 22nd half-century in just 44 balls with seven fours and two sixes but he could not make it big after getting out on a rash shot.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Shahid Afridi hit a six in the last over to help Pakistan to a one-wicket win over India, sending them to the top of the Asia Cup table. Mirpur (Bangladesh): In a thrilling cricketing clash between here, Pakistan today defeated its rival India in very important match of Asia Cup by 1 wicket here. Earlier, Ravindra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}