The national team's wicketkeeper-batsman, Mohammad Rizwan, narrowly missed breaking a 48-year-old Pakistani record in World Cup history.
Mohammad Rizwan scored 49 runs and got out in the match against India, making him the second Pakistani batter in consecutive World Cup matches to fall just one run short of a half-century.
Rizwan had previously scored 68 against the Netherlands and 131 against Sri Lanka, both ending in not-out innings. The only other Pakistani batter to score fifty-plus runs in three consecutive World Cup matches is Majid Khan, who achieved scores of 65, 60, and 84 in the 1975 World Cup.
In the 12th match of the World Cup, Pakistan has set a meager target of only 192 runs for India to chase. Pakistan's innings began with Imamul Haq and Abdullah Shafique, who established a 41-run partnership before Shafique was bowled out lbw by Mohammad Siraj after scoring 20 runs.
Pakistan's second wicket fell at 73 runs when Hardik Pandya dismissed Imamul Haq for 36 runs. Babar Azam was later dismissed by Siraj after scoring 50 runs with the help of 7 boundaries.
Saud Shakeel managed only 6 runs before being lbw to Kuldeep Yadav, who also bowled out Iftikhar Ahmed in the same over. On a slow pitch, Mohammad Rizwan was bowled by Jasprit Bumrah.
Shaheen Afridi contributed 4 runs, and Haris Rauf made 2 runs before getting out. Hasan Ali, with 12 runs, was the last wicket to fall.
India's bowlers, Mohammad Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, and Ravindra Jadeja, took 2 wickets each. Before this, in the match played at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to field first.
He mentioned that they wanted to take advantage of the evening conditions. Rohit Sharma also revealed that there was one change in their playing eleven, with Shubman Gill returning in place of Ishan Kishan.
On the other hand, Pakistan's captain, Babar Azam, expressed that there was no pressure in the India match, but they aimed to improve their fielding and set a challenging target on the home ground of India.