Asia Cup 2023: India's Performance

Asia Cup 2023: India’s Performance

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India has been in top form in the Asia Cup 2023, winning both of their Super 4 matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The team has been impressive in all departments, with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli leading the batting and Jasprit Bumrah shining in the bowling.

Asia Cup 2023: India’s Performance

Asia Cup 2023 was totally rain affected tournament. Most indian matches were affected by rains. The most awaited match between India and Pakistan was washed out. Same would have been the outcome for the second match also had they not reserved a day in case of rain.

India vs Pakistan match

Throughout the Asia Cup leg in Sri Lanka, there has been a lot of discussion about the weather. Second India and Pakistan match in Super 4s was also affected by rains. Another controversial choice made by the Asian Cricket Council was to reserve the reserve day just for the final and the India-Pakistan game.

This helped this time and the game resumed on second day. Opening pair had made half centuries each and second day started with the score 147 for 2 and Rahul and Virat went on to hit centuries and put on a massive total of 356. Pakistan had a non confident start and were bowled out for 128, with kuldeep Yadav’s career best spell. of 5 for 25.

 

BATTERS RUNS B 4s 6s SR
Rohit Sharma (c) 56 49 6 4 114.3
c Faheem Ashraf b Shadab Khan
Shubman Gill 58 52 10 0 111.5
c Agha Salman b Shaheen Afridi
Virat Kohli 122 94 9 3 129.8
not out
KL Rahul 111 106 12 2 104.7
not out
Extras9 (wd 8, nb 1)
TOTAL356/2 (50.0)
FALL OF WICKETS SCORE
Rohit Sharma 121/1 (16.4)
Shubman Gill 123/2 (17.5)

 

BOWLERS O MO RUNS WKTS ECO
Shaheen Afridi 10.0 0 79 1 7.9
Naseem Shah 9.2 1 53 0 5.7
Faheem Ashraf 10.0 0 74 0 7.4
Haris Rauf 5.0 0 27 0 5.4
Shadab Khan 10.0 1 71 1 7.1
Iftikhar Ahmed 5.4 0 52 0 9.2

 

BATTERS RUNS B 4s 6s SR
Fakhar Zaman 27 50 2 0 54.0
b Kuldeep Yadav
Imam-ul-Haq 9 18 1 0 50.0
c Shubman Gill b Jasprit Bumrah
Babar Azam (c) 10 24 2 0 41.7
b Hardik Pandya
Mohammad Rizwan (wk) 2 5 0 0 40.0
c KL Rahul b Shardul Thakur
Agha Salman 23 32 2 0 71.9
lbw b Kuldeep Yadav
Iftikhar Ahmed 23 35 1 0 65.7
c & b Kuldeep Yadav
Shadab Khan 6 10 0 0 60.0
c Shardul Thakur b Kuldeep Yadav
Faheem Ashraf 4 12 0 0 33.3
b Kuldeep Yadav
Shaheen Afridi 7 6 0 1 116.7
not out
Extras17 (wd 14, lb 3)
TOTAL128/10 (32.0)

 

BOWLERS O MO RUNS WKTS ECO
Jasprit Bumrah 5.0 1 18 1 3.6
Mohammed Siraj 5.0 0 23 0 4.6
Hardik Pandya 5.0 0 17 1 3.4
Shardul Thakur 4.0 0 16 1 4.0
Kuldeep Yadav 8.0 0 25 5 3.1
Ravindra Jadeja 5.0 0 26 0 5.2

 

 

India vs Sri Lanka

Highlights from the India vs. Sri Lanka Asia Cup 2023: Kudeep Yadav captured four wickets to put an end to Sri Lanka’s comeback during their Super 4 match, which India won by 41 runs. India’s participation in the Asia Cup final was assured by the victory. Additionally, it made sure that the forthcoming match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka would effectively serve as the semifinal.

When India batted first against Sri Lanka, they were limited to 213 runs as left-arm spinner Dunith Wellalage returned with a career-best 5/40, and off-spinners Charith Asalanka and Theekshana took the final four wickets in a brilliant bowling performance.

 

BATTERS RUNS B 4s 6s SR
Rohit Sharma (c) 53 48 7 2 110.4
b Dunith Wellalage
Shubman Gill 19 25 2 0 76.0
b Dunith Wellalage
Virat Kohli 3 12 0 0 25.0
c Dasun Shanaka b Dunith Wellalage
Ishan Kishan 33 61 1 1 54.1
c Dunith Wellalage b Charith Asalanka
KL Rahul (wk) 39 44 2 0 88.6
c & b Dunith Wellalage
Hardik Pandya 5 18 0 0 27.8
c Kusal Mendis b Dunith Wellalage
Ravindra Jadeja 4 19 0 0 21.1
c Kusal Mendis b Charith Asalanka
Axar Patel 26 36 0 1 72.2
c Sadeera Samarawickrama b Maheesh Theekshana
Jasprit Bumrah 5 12 0 0 41.7
b Charith Asalanka
Kuldeep Yadav 0 1 0 0 0.0
c Dhananjaya de Silva b Charith Asalanka
Mohammed Siraj 5 19 0 0 26.3
not out
Extras21 (wd 20, lb 1)
TOTAL213/10 (49.1)
FALL OF WICKETS SCORE
Shubman Gill 80/1 (11.1)
Virat Kohli 90/2 (13.5)
Rohit Sharma 91/3 (15.1)
KL Rahul 154/4 (30.0)
Ishan Kishan 170/5 (34.2)
Hardik Pandya 172/6 (36.0)
Ravindra Jadeja 178/7 (38.5)
Jasprit Bumrah 186/8 (42.1)
Kuldeep Yadav 186/9 (42.2)
Axar Patel 213/10 (49.1)

 

BOWLERS O MO RUNS WKTS ECO
Kasun Rajitha 4.0 0 30 0 7.5
Maheesh Theekshana 9.1 0 41 1 4.5
Dasun Shanaka (c) 3.0 0 24 0 8.0
Matheesha Pathirana 4.0 0 31 0 7.8
Dunith Wellalage 10.0 1 40 5 4.0
Dhananjaya de Silva 10.0 0 28 0 2.8
Charith Asalanka 9.0 1 18 4 2.0
BATTERS RUNS B 4s 6s SR
Pathum Nissanka 6 7 1 0 85.7
c KL Rahul b Jasprit Bumrah
Dimuth Karunaratne 2 18 0 0 11.1
c Shubman Gill b Mohammed Siraj
Kusal Mendis (wk) 15 16 3 0 93.8
c sub Suryakumar Yadav b Jasprit Bumrah
Sadeera Samarawickrama 17 31 1 0 54.8
st KL Rahul b Kuldeep Yadav
Charith Asalanka 22 35 2 0 62.9
c KL Rahul b Kuldeep Yadav
Dhananjaya de Silva 41 66 5 0 62.1
c Shubman Gill b Ravindra Jadeja
Dasun Shanaka (c) 9 13 1 0 69.2
c Rohit Sharma b Ravindra Jadeja
Dunith Wellalage 42 46 3 1 91.3
not out
Maheesh Theekshana 2 14 0 0 14.3
c sub Suryakumar Yadav b Hardik Pandya
Kasun Rajitha 1 2 0 0 50.0
b Kuldeep Yadav
Matheesha Pathirana 0 2 0 0 0.0
b Kuldeep Yadav

 

BOWLERS O MO RUNS WKTS ECO
Jasprit Bumrah 7.0 1 30 2 4.3
Mohammed Siraj 5.0 2 17 1 3.4
Hardik Pandya 5.0 0 14 1 2.8
Kuldeep Yadav 9.3 0 43 4 4.5
Ravindra Jadeja 10.0 0 33 2 3.3
Axar Patel 5.0 0 29 0 5.8

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