India and Pakistan to try again on Monday after rain returns at Asia Cup

The heavyweight Asia Cup battle between India and Pakistan will now be completed on a reserve day after rain ended proceedings abruptly in Colombo on Sunday.

An extra day was a last-minute addition to the Super Four clash – the only game to get that honour other than the final – after the group-stage meeting between the two teams was washed out due to rain in Pallekele.

Put into bat, India had reached 147-2 in 24.1 overs when heavy rain interrupted proceedings. The umpires then waited for nearly four hours before deciding the rest of the match would be played on Monday.

The Indian openers impressed on Sunday after Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to field at the R Premadasa Stadium.

Shaheen Afridi had troubled India's top orders in recent encounters but Rohit Sharma and his team appeared to have found an antidote against the left-arm speedster.

Gill, particularly, took the sting out of Pakistan's fiery pace attack when he combined with Rohit in a 121-run opening stand off 100 balls.

On two occasions Gill smashed Afridi for three boundaries in an over, eventually throwing the bowler out of the attack after a wicketless and expensive first spell.

Rohit survived Naseem Shah's hostile opening spell before asserting himself, hitting four sixes in his breezy 49-ball knock of 56 as boundaries flowed from both ends.

He smashed leg-spinner Shadab Khan for two sixes and a four from successive balls in a 19-run over to raise the noise of the Indian fans at a largely empty stadium.

On to the reserve day