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Virat Kohli gifted his signed jersey to Pakistan pacer Haris Rauf after his team's five-wicket win over the arch-rivals in Asia Cup here. The BCCI posted a video in which Kohli was seen gifting his jersey to Rauf. The two players shook hands after Kohli's fine gesture on Sunday night.
Virat Kohli had a decent outing in the Asia Cup 2022 clash against Pakistan on Sunday as he scored 35 off 34 balls in the thriller. Chasing 148, Kohli came to bat at No. 3. He rode his luck but also showed signs of returning to form before falling to the bowling of Pakistan's Mohammad Nawaz. The former India captain is under focus for his recent lack of big scores. After the match, Kohli could be seen interacting with Pakistan's Haris Rauf. He even handed Rauf a signed jersey.
Asia Cup in Dubai. "The reaction to losing to India has not been the usual criticism because in the build up to the match the camaraderie shown by players of both teams towards each other was brilliant while our team also fought hard till the final over," Pakistan's former captain Moin Khan said.
Severe criticism of Pakistani cricketers is expected after a loss to India but the experts were rather kind to the players after Sunday's narrow defeat against the arch-rivals in the Asia Cup in Dubai. "The reaction to losing to India has not been the usual criticism because in the build up to the match the camaraderie shown by players of both teams towards each other was brilliant while our team also fought hard till the final over,” Pakistan's former captain Moin Khan said.
Former India cricketer Hemang Badani suffered an injury during an Asia Cup pre-match show on Saturday. In the opening match of the ongoing Asia Cup, Sri Lanka took on Afghanistan, and Badani, who was on air with Krishnamachari Srikkanth on Star Sports' Tamil feed, was hit with the bat by the former India opener while he was explaining a shot. Badani was visibly in pain and was seen rubbing his elbow. While Badani tried to work through pain, he eventually walked off the studio holding his elbow.
Team India scripted a thrilling win over arch-rivals in their Asia Cup clash on Sunday at Dubai International Stadium. It was Hardik Pandya's all-round performance which took Team India to victory in the nail-biting thriller. The all-rounder first helped India to bundle out Pakistan at 147 by scalping three wickets and later smashed 33 runs off 17 balls, including the winning six, to give his side a five-wicket win. Appreciating his performance, former India head coach Ravi Shastri took to Twitter and called him the "best T20 all-rounder."
The first delivery was negotiated by India captain Rohit Sharma easily with a single on the leg side. Then KL Rahul came on strike. Naseem ran in, fast and furious, with the raw energy of a teenager looking to bowl fast. Rahul, making a comeback after an injury, counted on his experience to negate the threat but erred in reading the line of the delivery. Naseem hurled a 142kph snorter, Rahul just dangled his bat, at an angle, neither vertical, nor horizontal. The ball took the edge and crashed into the stumps. Rahul hung his head and walked back, a first ball duck, Naseem took off, chased by his teammates, finally caught by wicket-keeper Mohammad Rizwan and then embraced by all his teammates and congratulated for his maiden T20I wicket.
The two teams don't play bilateral series anymore, which means that the players don't get to visit each others' homes etc., but on the field there is ample evidence of player bonhomie and mutual respect, like we saw in Sunday's Asia Cup match, which turned out to be quite the thriller that India won by 5 wickets. But there was a time when an India-Pakistan cricket match was almost sure to produce some on-field altercation or banter. One unforgettable instance was the Kiran More vs Javed Miandad incident in the 1992 World Cup, which every hard core Indian and Pakistan cricket fan will remember or know about.