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pakistan vs india, ct25, match 5
Pakistan vs India, CT25, Match 5
Mohammad Rizwan won an important toss and opted to bat.
Pakistan's openers got off to a brisk start as India's bowlers bowled a tad too full with some swing on offer.
Hardik Pandya gave India the first breakthrough before Imam-ul-Haq fell in the next over to a run-out.
Overs 11-20 brought just 27 runs for Pakistan but Rizwan and Shakeel hunkered down to build a big stand.
Shakeel scored a solid 63-ball half-century as Pakistan looked to kick on.
Axar Patel broke the 104-run stand by castling Mohammad Rizwan.
Kuldeep Yadav took three lower middle-order wickets to engineer a mini collapse.
Khushdil Shah added an important 38 to push Pakistan to 241.
India got off to a brisk start before Rohit Sharma was castled by a Shaheen Afridi yorker.
Shubman Gill continued his rich vein of form by a hitting a string of eye-catching boundaries, mostly off Shaheen Afridi.
Abrar Ahmed dismissed Gill for 46 with a terrific leg break
Virat Kohli got going with a brace of well-timed checked-drives off Haris Rauf.
Kohli and Iyer batted steadily through the middle overs and put on 114 for the third wicket.
Iyer overcame a sedate start to complete a half-century.
Kohli got to his 51st ODI century by hitting the last ball of the match for four as India won by six wickets.
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