Venue: R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Pakistan have won the toss and have opted to field

India (Playing XI):

Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

Pakistan (Playing XI):

Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Agha(c), Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Khan(w), Shaheen Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Usman Tariq

@Narper

I am gonna watch this match ..even for a little bit. 😀

@hubert

so good to see you bro😀

0.6

Salman Agha to Abhishek Sharma, out Caught by Shaheen Afridi!! Salman opening the bowling has turned out to be a masterstroke. Duck in the opening game, and another duck today for Abhishek. Yet to open his account in this tournament. It's flat and sliding in at the stumps, probably not short enough to pull, he goes for it anyway and miscues it to mid-on. Right off the splice and no power behind it at all. What a start for Pakistan. Salman immediately points in the direction of one of his teammates, someone who suggested the move to him perhaps? He said in the presser yesterday that he wants Abhishek to play, and now he's got rid of him. 

Abhishek Sharma c Shaheen Afridi b Salman Agha 0(4)

Dismissed for duck in the first two games in T20 World Cups (FM sides)

Ashish Nehra

Imrul Kayes

Abhishek Sharma

IND 25-1(3) CRR:8.33

Ishan Kishan 20(10)

Tilak Varma 5(4)

Salman Agha 2-0-10-1

@Narper

50* fi Ishan

IND 82-1(8.0) CRR:10.16

Ishan Kishan 72(37)

Tilak Varma 10(7)

8.4

Saim Ayub to Ishan Kishan, out Bowled!! Pakistan can breathe a huge sigh of relief! Ayub puts his arms up as the dangerous Ishan Kishan is knocked over. What a knock though. On a challenging surface, he has hammered 77 off just 40 balls to put India ahead at this stage. Has completely defied the conditions.

Ishan Kishan b Saim Ayub 77(40) [4s-10 6s-3]

Clataaax

Gawn fi 77 - good knock dat

88/2

Highest individual scores in Ind-Pak T20Is

82* Virat Kohli Melbourne 2022

79* Mohd Rizwan Dubai 2021

78* Virat Kohli Colombo RPS 2012

77 Ishan Kishan Colombo RPS 2026

75 Gautam Gambhir Joburg 2007

10.1

4

Usman Tariq to Suryakumar Yadav, FOUR, Tariq's first ball disappears to the boundary! An off-break turning in off a good length, Surya waits in the crease before whipping it through the gap at midwicket

11.1

Mohammad Nawaz to Tilak Varma, SIX, a shot that gets Tilak going? Has been subdued so far, didn't get much strike in the partnership with Kishan and now strikes his first six. It's tossed up wide of off, he reaches out, goes inside-out and carves it over extra cover. The timing takes it all the way!

@Narper

Dharmasena protecting his stock

tief

IND 108-2(12) CRR:9

Suryakumar Yadav 9(9)

Tilak Varma 21(19)