Playing XIs

India XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Lokesh Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

Pakistan XI: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan (vc), Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf

Not many would have predicted the turnaround in fortunes, however instantly Pakistan’s bowlers are craving for his or her ‘on’ second. India have, by quirk of occasions and last-instant u-turns as they did with Ashwin, instantly discover themselves already on and prepared.(AP)

Cricket World Cup: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Shadab Khan – Pakistan’s bowling weapons trying to find kind earlier than India recreation

Couple of days in the past, former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi referred to as his son-in-law Shaheen Shah Afridi. Shaheen has bled runs within the final couple of video games, regarded off-pace, off-kilter, and out of kinds. Pakistan has been fretting. The remainder of the cricketing world has been puzzled. What has occurred to the person who knocks out oppositions within the first spherical that he has been carted round by Shubman Gill within the Asia Cup, and by Kusal Mendis on this World Cup?

Afridi tells Samaa TV that he urged Shaheen to ask the efficiency analyst for his bowling movies. That the lengths and contours have been incorrect – “not hit hard lengths,” and “too much room”. And Afridi says, Shaheen agreed with the evaluation, and has promised that he would type himself out within the couple of days main as much as the India recreation in Ahmedabad. In the studio, Mohammad Yousuf and Mushtaq Ahmed nodded sagely. A day earlier than the sport, in Ahmedabad, skipper Babar Azam would remind a questioner about how Shaheen is a “champion and a big-match player”.