In Ahmedabad, during the 2023 World Cup clash, India’s star batsman ViratKohli had a heartfelt interaction with Pakistan’s captain, Babar Azam.
India secured a commanding seven-wicket victory over arch-rivals Pakistanin this high-intensity match, with Rohit Sharma’s quickfire 86 and animpressive bowling performance.
India’s bowlers, including Jasprit Bumrah, Muhammad Siraj, and KuldeepYadav, restricted Pakistan to 191 in just 42.5 overs. Rohit Sharma’sbrilliant innings of 86 allowed India to chase down the target in only 30.3overs, with Shaheen Afridi taking two wickets for Pakistan and Hasan Alidismissing Virat Kohli.
After the match, a heartwarming moment occurred when Virat Kohli gifted asigned jersey to Babar Azam, and this video has since gone viral on socialmedia. While Indian players celebrated their victory, Kohli engaged in aconversation with Babar.
Babar Azam admitted that Pakistan’s batting collapse was the reason fortheir loss in the match. He mentioned their good start and partnership butregretted the sudden batting collapse, which prevented them from reachingtheir target of 280-290.
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Babar also praised Rohit Sharma’s match-winning performance andacknowledged the difficulty in taking wickets. Notably, India has now takenthe top position in the ICC World Cup 2023 points table, having won allthree of their matches and maintaining a positive net run rate of 1.821.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is in fourth place with a net run rate of -0.137 and isset to face Australia on October 20.