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IND vs PAK Hong Kong Sixes Highlights: India Wins by 2 Runs (DLS) in Thriller: India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan by a narrow 2-run margin under the Duckworth-Lewis (DLS) method in a Pool C match of the Hong Kong Sixes 2025 tournament, registering their first win of the tournament. The rain-interrupted match was decided by the DLS method, giving India two crucial points.
Watch Hong Kong Sixes 2025 IND vs PAK Highlights
India's explosive innings
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first. The Indian team, led by captain Dinesh Karthik, included experienced players like Robin Uthappa and Stuart Binny.
Robin Uthappa and Bharat Chipli opened the innings for India and gave the team a strong start.
- Robin Uthappa scored 28 runs in 11 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes.
- Bharat Chipli also contributed 24 runs in 13 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes.
- Thanks to these two brilliant innings, India set a target of 87 runs in 6 overs.
- In the end, Dinesh Karthik scored an unbeaten 17 runs (from 6 balls), while Stuart Binny and Abhimanyu Easwaran contributed 4 runs and 6 runs respectively. gave.
Pakistan's innings and rain interruption
Chasing the target of 87 runs, Pakistan also got off to a good start.
- Khawaja Nafay scored 11 runs, Abdul Samad scored 16 runs, and Maz Sadaqat scored 7 runs.
- Pakistan had scored a total of 41 runs after losing 1 wicket in 3 overs.
- After this, rain interrupted the match and play had to be stopped.
India won by Duckworth-Lewis method
When play was stopped due to rain, India was 2 runs ahead of Pakistan under the DLS method. According to the rules, Pakistan had to be ahead of India's score by that time.
The Pakistani batsmen's failure to take a run off the last ball of the second over and the 4 consecutive dot balls from overs 1.3 to 2.1 ultimately proved very costly for the team.
Due to persistent rain, the match was decided under the Duckworth-Lewis method, and India won the thrilling contest by 2 runs.
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