IND vs PAK, Naseem Shah: Often we keep reading and hearing that when the teams of India and Pakistan come face to face, the players of both the countries give their everything in the match. Players are engaged in making their country victorious with all their lives.
We got to see a live example of this during the Asia Cup on Sunday, 28 August night. In this tournament of the subcontinent countries, when the high voltage match was going on between India and Pakistan, everyone saluted the spirit of 19-year-old Naseem Shah of the neighboring country.
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Naseem Shah kept on bowling despite his leg injury :-
During the match, Naseem Shah suffered a leg injury, despite this he was bowling continuously. When this bowler took the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav in the 15th over of the innings, for the first time at that time he got a cramp in his leg. After this, he was seen constantly battling with pain. Then it seemed that he would hardly be able to bowl the last over of his quota.
But this did not happen, Naseem again caught the ball in the 18th over and bowled with constant pain. During this he bowled several deliveries at a speed of more than 140kmph and spent a total of 10 runs from the over. Had Naseem Shah not bowled this over, the match might have ended earlier.
Naseem made his T20I debut through this match :-
Naseem Shah made his debut in T20I cricket through this match against India. On the second ball of his career, he made his first victim by dismissing KL Rahul for a golden duck. After this he also took the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav. Naseem spent 27 runs in the quota of 4 overs.
Here is the performance of both the teams in the IND vs PAK match of Asia Cup 2022 :-
Talking about India vs Pakistan match, Team India won the toss and bowled first and bowled out Pakistan for 147 runs in 19.5 overs and then achieved the target by taking 5 wickets in 19.4 overs.
In bowling, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took four wickets while Hardik Pandya took three wickets, while Virat Kohli (35), Ravindra Jadeja (35) and Hardik Pandya (33) played a brilliant innings in the batting. Pandya was awarded the man of the match award for his all-round performance.