LIVE: Pak win the toss, Pakistan choose to bowl first
The Champions Trophy’s most exciting India-Pakistan match will be played from 3 pm on Sunday. The toss will be at 2.30 o’clock. Team India stadium has reached for the match. The two teams are ready for this match in Birmingham. India is the only such team among all the teams who have won both their practice matches. Even against Pakistan, he is considered to be the winner of victory. But in the Champions Trophy so far, Pakistan’s hold is huge. This is the only ICC tournament in which Pakistan has won against India.
There are 3 matches in the Champions Trophy tournament between the two teams, out of which 2 Pakistan and 1 India have won. Pakistan won the matches in the 2004 and 2009 Champions Trophy. While in the 2013 tournament, the Indian team won by 8 wickets.
India
India has a strong batting lineup in the form of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and captain Virat Kohli. At the same time, Indian bowlers have praised Shahid Afridi and Glenn McGrath. In this way, it remains a hot favorite.
There is a depth in Team India’s batting line-up. Match-winning batsmen and bowlers and have tremendous experience. Not enough, they have Virat Kohli, who keep their best for such a big opportunity. Those who doubt their capabilities against Pakistan can see the Asia Cup and the 2016 T20 World Cup. There alone, Virat had demolished the opposition.
Team India’s fast bowler
In Team India, there are at least four fast bowlers who bowl at an average of 140 kmph. These are Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya and Jaspreet Bumrah. In the Indian Pace Battary, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is only bowling at 135 kmph. But Bhuvneshwar also does a good reverse swing with swing king.
Swing is very difficult to play at this speed of Bhuvai. He has shown this in a warm-up match against Bangladesh. He took 3 for 13 in five overs. Bhuvneshwar has always been picking up headlines because of his imitation bowl. Right now, most of the wickets in the IPL-10 were taken 26 wickets and were able to get a purple cap for the second consecutive year.
Mohammed Shami has shown in both warm-up matches a spectacular display that he has now returned to color and is ready to lead the Indian attack. Shami, taking more speed than Bhubaneswar, makes the ball swing and reverse swing, so sometimes it becomes very difficult to play. Both Hardik Pandya and Jaspreet Bumrah are generally bowling at a speed of 143 kmph. Pandya is the all-rounder. They played an impressive 80-run against Bangladesh in Bangladesh, with the possibility of playing them. Bumrah is the specialist in curbing batsmen in death overs. He is able to bind the batsmen with his full length yorkers.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s team can be considered as an underdog in this Champions Trophy tournament. They need their bowlers to shake the Indian batting order. Bowlers like Mohammad Aamer, Hasan Ali and Junaid Khan can do this for Pakistan in England’s environment. Pakistan has a spin trio, which in recent times came like a sensation of Shadab Khan. They have experienced Imad Wasim and Mohammad Hafeez, who will support the fast bowlers.
On the other hand, if talk about Pakistan’s batting order, then they lack a powerheater. Although they have batsmen like Ahmed Shahzad, Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, and Sarfaraz Khan, who said in a practice match against Bangladesh that they can achieve even bigger goals. Pakistan also achieved the target of 341 runs against Bangladesh.
PAK has sharp penial battery
The life of Pakistani paise battery is Mohammad Aamir. He is an expert on swing bowling at an average of 139-140 kmph, which makes him fatal. Although the coach and captain of Pakistan have said before the match that Junaid Khan is not in the last 11. He has played four matches against Indian captain Virat Kohli and has managed to get him out 3 times. He bowled Virat on 22 occasions on the Indian tour of the 2012 Pakistan team and was dismissed three times with just two runs.
What is the figure?
Pakistan defeated India by 3 wickets in the Birmingham year 2004 Champions Trophy. After this, Pakistan again managed to win by 54 runs in the match played in the 2009 Champions Trophy. But in the year 2013, India defeated Pakistan by eight wickets in Birmingham, bringing the advantage to 2-1. If India wins this match on Sunday, then it will equal Pakistan 2-2 in the Champions Trophy.
Playing eleven
Pakistan: Ahmed Shahzad, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Sarfaraz Khan (captain and wicketkeeper), Imad Wasim, Fahim Ashraf, Mohammad Aamir, Wahab Riaz and Shadab Khan.
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (Captain), Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhubaneswar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Jaspreet Bumrah.
