Rain crisis: Will India-Pakistan match take place today, read latest updates

The shadow of rain is also looming on the reserve day of the India-Pakistan Asia Cup match. The start of the match has been delayed due to intermittent rain in Colombo since Monday morning. At present, the rain has stopped in Colombo.

In such a situation, there is confusion in the reserve day game also, because the forecast has predicted 100 percent rain here.

A day earlier on Sunday, this Super-4 match was stopped due to heavy rain and wet outfield, which is to be played today (Reserve Day) from 3:00 pm at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The match will start again from where it was stopped. By the time the game was stopped, Team India had scored 147 runs after losing two wickets in 24.1 overs and will play further with this score.

Ground staff kept drying the field for hours

Heavy rain started at 4:52 pm during the Indian innings. It rained for about one and a half hours making some parts of the field very wet. The ground staff kept trying to dry those parts for about 4 hours. Sometimes the staff resorted to disposal, and sometimes an attempt was made to dry those spots with fan air. During this period, the umpires also inspected the field several times. They were inspecting for the fourth time at 8:30 pm when the rain returned and it was decided to hold the match on reserve day.

Rohit and Gill were out after scoring half centuries

Before the match was stopped, Team India, playing first, had scored 147 runs for two wickets in 24.1 overs. Virat Kohli is unbeaten on 8 and KL Rahul is unbeaten on 17 runs. Shubman Gill was out after scoring 58 runs. Shaheen Shah Afridi got him caught by Salman Ali Aga. Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma (56 runs) was caught by Shadab Khan at the hands of Faheem Ashraf.

Rohit and Gill were out after scoring half centuries

Before the match was stopped, Team India, playing first, had scored 147 runs for two wickets in 24.1 overs. Virat Kohli is unbeaten on 8 and KL Rahul is unbeaten on 17 runs.

Gill out after scoring 58 runs, made 8th fifty

Shubman Gill was out after scoring 58 runs. He completed the eighth fifty of his ODI career. Gill hit 10 fours in 52 balls.

Rohit completed his 50th half-century by hitting a six over midwicket.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored the 50th half-century of his ODI career. He completed his fifty by hitting a six over midwicket. He was out after scoring 56 runs on 49 balls. He hit 6 fours and 4 sixes.

Openers made second consecutive century partnership

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave India a fast start. Both of them made a fifty partnership in the first powerplay itself. After the powerplay, Rohit Sharma hit 3 sixes and a four against Shadab Khan. Rohit completed the 50th fifty of his career, but became the victim of Shadab Khan after scoring 56 runs. With Rohit’s wicket, his 121-run partnership with Shubman was broken. Both of them had made a century partnership of 147 runs against Nepal in the last match. This is the 5th century partnership of Rohit-Gill.

After Rohit, Shubman Gill also got out after scoring 58 runs in the 18th over. He was caught out by Shaheen Afridi.

Gill gave an explosive start in the powerplay

Shubman Gill gave a fast start to Team India after losing the toss and coming to bat first. Rohit also hit a six against Shaheen Afridi in the very first over. Gill hit 3-3 fours in Shaheen’s 2 overs. The team scored 61 runs without loss after 10 overs.

This is how India’s wickets fell

First (Rohit Sharma- 56 runs): Shadab Khan bowled the fourth ball of the 17th over with a fuller length flighted. Rohit was caught by Faheem Ashraf at long off.

Second (Shubhman Gill- 58 runs): Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled the fifth ball of the 18th over slower on good length. Shubman was caught by Salman Ali Aga on the covers.

Team India entered with 2 changes

There have been two changes in the Indian team. Shreyas Iyer is not playing this match due to back injury. KL Rahul has been given a chance in his place. Jasprit Bumrah has been played in place of Mohammed Shami. Rohit said after the toss- ‘We wanted to bat after winning the toss. All matches are important for us.

Playing-11 of both the teams

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav.

Pakistan: Babar Azam (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Salman Ali Aga, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf.

India-Pakistan match is going to be held on Sunday in the Super-4 stage of Asia Cup-2023. These two teams will face each other for the second time in the current season. The last match was inconclusive due to rain. In such a situation, a reserve day has also been kept for this match.

The Super-4 stage match will be played between India and Pakistan in the Asia Cup today. Pakistan won its first match in Super-4 against Bangladesh. Whereas Team India will play its first match in this stage. If Pakistan wins today then the team will almost reach the finals. Whereas if India wins then they have to play 2 more matches after this.