India continue to D(h)o(ni)minate Pakistan

India made one change to their playing eleven – Shikhar Dhawan made way for Ajinkya Rahane.

Pakistan made seven changes to their playing (Sharje)eleven – Kamran Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad, Sohaib Maqsood, Bilawal Bhatti, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal and Junaid Khan made way for Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz and the Mohammads (Sami, Amir and Irfan).

On winning the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, inserted the Pakistanis.

The Powerplay of Pakistan’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 32, and lost three wickets.

Mohammad Hafeez, who faced four balls, scored as many. His runs came by way of a boundary. Four balls into the match, he was caught by Dhoni. Nehra broke the run-a-ball stand.

Although his innings included a boundary, Sharjeel had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored five. Seventeen balls later, he was caught by Rahane. Jasprit Bumrah broke the 18-run stand.

The third-wicket pair put on 10. Manzoor, whose 18-ball innings included a boundary, scored 10. Fourteen balls later, Virat Kohli, the player of the match, ran him out.

Shoaib Malik, who faced a dozen balls, scored just four. His runs came by way for a boundary. Seven balls later, he was caught by Dhoni. Hardik Pandya broke the three-run stand.

The fifth-wicket pair didn’t get off the (U)mark. Akmal, who faced four balls, scored three. The next ball, he was trapped leg before wicket by Yuvraj Singh.

The sixth-wicket pair had no reason to be in seventh heaven. Shahid Afridi, Pakistan’s skipper, faced a couple of balls, scoring as many. Five balls later, Ravindra Jadeja and Dhoni ran him out.

Pakistan scored 50 off 10.4 overs (64 balls). The number of extras they had conceded gave India no reason to be in seventh heaven.

Riaz, who faced a dozen balls, scored just four. Twenty-two balls after Afridi’s dismissal, he was trapped leg before wicket by Jadeja, who broke the 10-run stand.

Ahmed, whose 24-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 25. Twenty-one balls later, Jadeja broke the 18-run stand.

Sami, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Thirteen balls later, he was caught by Raina. Pandya broke the run-a-ball stand.

The last-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Amir, who faced eight balls, scored just a run. The next ball, he was dismissed by Pandya.

Irfan, who didn’t face a ball, was unbeaten.

India eventually conceded 15 extras. Pakistan were bundled for 83 off 17.3 overs. Ravichandran Ashwin, who bowled three wicketless overs, conceded 21.

Yuvraj, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 11. He picked up a wicket, as did Nehra and Bumrah, who bowled three overs apiece. While the former conceded 20, the latter, whose spell included a couple of maidens, conceded eight.

Jadeja, who bowled three overs, conceded 11. He picked up a couple of wickets. Pandya, who bowled 3.3 overs, conceded eight. He picked up three scalps.

The Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 21, and lost three wickets.

India’s openers didn’t get off the (Shar)mark. Rohit, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls into the chase, he was trapped leg before wicket by Amir.

The second-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Rahane, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Amir, who broke the two-run stand.

Raina, who faced four balls, scored a run. Twelve balls later, he was caught by Riaz. Amir broke the six-run stand.

India scored 50 off 8.5 overs (53 balls). Pakistan had conceded 10 extras at that point.

The fourth-wicket pair put on 50 off 51 balls. While Kohli’s contribution to the partnership was 29, Yuvraj’s contribution to it was 11. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was 10.

Kohli, whose 51-ball innings included seven boundaries, eventually scored 49. Sixty-nine balls after Raina’s dismissal, he was trapped leg before wicket by Sami, who broke the 68-run partnership.

Yuvraj, whose 32-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, eventually conceded 14. He was unbeaten.

The fifth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Pandya, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls after Kohli’s dismissal, he was caught by Hafeez off the bowling of Sami.

Dhoni, whose three-ball innings included a boundary, was in seventh heaven, because he was unbeaten.

Pakistan eventually conceded 14 extras. India, who scored 85 for the loss of five wickets off 15.3 overs, won by five wickets with 27 balls to spare.

Riaz, who bowled 3.3 overs, conceded 31. He was wicketless, as was Irfan, who bowled four overs, conceding 16. Sami, who bowled four overs, conceded 16. He picked up two wickets. Amir, who bowled four overs, conceded 18. He picked up three scalps.