India made a couple of Cha(wla)nges to their playing eleven – Harbhajan Singh and Piyush made way for Virender Sehwag and Lakshmipathy Balaji.
Pakistan
(Moham)made four changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Younis
Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sohail Tanvir and Asif made way for Nasir Jamshed, Umar
Akmal, Saeed Ajmal and Raza Hasan.
On winning
the toss, Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistan’s skipper, chose to bat.
The
Powerplay of Pakistan’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was
between the first and the sixth over. They scored 42, and lost a couple of
wickets.
Imran
Nazir, who faced five balls, scored eight. His runs came by way of boundaries.
Eight balls into the match, he was trapped leg before wicket by Irfan Pathan,
who broke the 17-run stand.
Shahid
Afridi, whose 12-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 14.
Twenty balls later, he was caught by Suresh Raina. Lakshmipathy Balaji broke
the 18-run stand.
Jamshed,
who faced five balls, scored four. A dozen balls later, he was caught by
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper. Yuvraj Singh broke the eight-run stand.
Kamran
Akmal, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored five. Ten balls later, he was
caught by Dhoni. Yuvraj broke the six-run stand.
Pakistan
scored 50 off 8.3 overs (51 balls). India had conceded nine extras at that
point.
Hafeez,
whose 28-ball innings included a boundary, scored just 15. Nine balls later,
Virat Kohli, the player of the match, broke the 10-run stand.
Pakistan
scored 100 off 14.3 overs (88 balls). India had conceded a dozen extras at that
point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.
Shoaib Malik,
whose 22-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 28. Thirty-three balls
after Hafeez’s dismissal, he was caught by Rohit Sharma. Ravichandran Ashwin
broke the 47-run stand.
Umar Akmal,
whose 18-ball innings included a six, scored 21. Thirteen balls later, he was
caught by Raina. Ashwin broke the nine-run stand.
The
eighth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Yasir Arafat, whose 11-ball innings
included a boundary, scored eight. Four balls later, Yuvraj ran him out.
Umar Gul,
whose 10-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored a dozen. Eight
balls later, he was caught by Dhoni. Balaji broke the 13-run stand.
The
last-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Ajmal, who faced a couple of balls,
scored a run. The next ball, he was caught by Dhoni off the bowling of Balaji.
Hasan, who
didn’t face a ball, was unbeaten.
Pakistan
were dismissed for 128 off 19.4 overs. Zaheer Khan bowled three wicketless
overs, conceding 22. Pathan and Kohli bowled three overs each, picking up a
wicket apiece. While the former conceded 30, the latter conceded 21.
Yuvraj bowled
three overs, conceding 16. He picked up a couple of wickets, as did Ashwin, who
bowled four overs, conceding 16. Balaji bowled 3.4 overs, conceding 22. 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 36, and lost a wicket.
Gautam
Gambhir, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of
balls into the chase, he was caught by Hasan, who broke the one-run stand.
India
scored 50 off 7.5 overs (47 balls). Pakistan had conceded a couple of extras at
that point.
The
second-wicket pair put on 50 off 46 balls. While Sehwag’s contribution to the
partnership was 22, Kohli’s contribution to it was 27. Extras’ contribution to
the partnership was a run.
Sehwag,
whose 24-ball innings included four boundaries, eventually scored 29. Sixty-one
balls after Gambhir’s dismissal, he was caught by Gul. Afridi broke the 74-run partnership.
Kohli,
whose 61-ball innings included eight boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored
78. He was unbeaten, as was Yuvraj, who scored 19. His 16-ball innings included
a couple of boundaries.
Pakistan
eventually conceded three extras. India, who scored 129 for the loss of a
couple of wickets off 17 overs, won by eight wickets with three overs to spare.
Arafat bowled an over, conceding 11. He was wicketless, as was Hafeez, who
bowled an over, conceding seven.
Gul bowled
three wicketless overs, conceding 30. Ajmal bowled four wicketless overs,
conceding 25. Afridi and Hasan bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket
apiece. While the former conceded 34, the latter conceded 22.
