Asia Cup: India's Operation 'White Ball', Pakistani team spread like maps

Dubai, September 14 (IANS). The most exciting match of Group A of the Asia Cup 2025 is played between India and Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. After winning the Toss, Indian bowlers performed the operation ‘White Ball’ against the Pakistan cricket team to bat first. Before the deadly bowling of India, the team of Pakistan was crushed like maps. Pakistan captain Salman Ali Aga said at the time of the throw that he wanted to score runs, but when his team came out to bat, he was seen with the first ball on the back foot. Hardik Pandya, who started the bowling, bowled the first ball wide. However, on the first valid ball, Saim Ayub Jaspreet was caught by Bumrah. After this, the Indian bowlers broke on Pakistani batsmen. The second wicket was taken by Jaspreet Bumrah. After this, Pakistani batsmen showed fear of Indian spinners. Pakistani batsmen could not understand the ball of Indian spinners. Before the trio of Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty and Akshar Patel, Pakistan was able to score 127 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Pakistan couldn’t even cross the 100 point as Shaheen Afridi, who came to bat at the ninth number, would have scored an unbeaten 33 runs with 4 sixes of 16 balls. In addition, Sahibzada Farhan scored 40 runs from 44 balls. Kuldeep Yadav was the best bowler from India. He took 3 wickets for only 18 runs in 4 overs. Akshar Patel took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs. Jasprit Bumrah took 2 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs and Varun Chakraborty took 1 wicket for 24 runs in 4 overs. Hardik Pandya remained the most expensive and got 1 wicket in 4 overs to get 1 wicket. -Ians pack/ share these story tags