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| India vs Pakistan: ICC Champions Trophy 2013 - Statistical Highlights Posted: 15 Jun 2013 09:10 PM PDT  India vs Pakistan Statistical Highlights: # India's splendid triumph is their 50th over Pakistan in 125 matches (Lost 71 and no-result four) - winning % 41.32. # India have defeated Pakistan for the first time in the ICC Champions Trophy. They had lost both their previous encounters to Pakistan - by three wickets at Edgbaston, Birmingham on September 19, 2004 and by 54 runs at Centurion on September 26, 2009. # India became the first team to win three games in the present competition.# India have won five ODIs by eight wickets against Pakistan. # India have won seven and lost three out of ten played in ODIs this year - winning % 70.00. # Under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy, India have won 80 and lost 47 out of 138 ODIs played - Tied 3 and no-result 8 - winning % 62.69. # For the second time, Pakistan have ended the ICC Champions Trophy tournament without winning a single game - the first instance being in the ICC knock-out in Dhaka in 1998-99. # Pakistan have lost five successive games for the first time in the ICC Champions Trophy - between September 30, 2009 and June 15, 2013 - one each against Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, South Africa and India. # Pakistan (165) have recorded their lowest total against India in ODIs in England, eclipsing the 180 at Old Trafford, Mancheser on June 8, 1999. # Shikhar Dhawan's aggregate of 264 at an average of 132.00 is the highest by any batsman in just three games in a competition in the ICC Champions Trophy. # Dhawan is averaging 47.57 in ODIs - his aggregate being 333 runs in eight innings, including two hundreds and a fifty. In seven Indian wins, he is averaging 53.66 - his tally being 322 at a strike rate of 94.98. # In the present competition, Dhawan has managed 114 vs South Africa; 102 not out vs West Indies and 48 vs Pakistan - his best sequence in ODIs. # Ravindra Jadeja, with nine wickets at 10.77 runs apiece in three matches, is the top wicket-taker in the present competition. He has set an Indian record for most wickets in a tournament in the ICC Champions Trophy. # In four matches vs Pakistan in ODIs, Jadeja has captured seven wickets at 19.00 runs apiece. Jadeja's economy rate of 3.50 is his lowest against any team in ODIs. # Misbah-ul-Haq, with 173 runs at an average of 86.50, is the top run-scorer for Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. # Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/19) has produced his best bowling performance against Pakistan in ODIs, bettering the two for 27 at Chennai on December 30, 2012. The said performance is his best in the ICC Champions Trophy. # Kumar has received his first Man of the Match award in ODIs. # Nasir Jamshed's only fifty in his last ten innings in ODIs is 50 vs West Indies at The Oval on June 7, 2013. # Kamran Akmal is averaging just 15.20 in the ICC Champions Trophy - his aggregate being 152 in ten innings, with 44 vs Australia at Centurion on September 30, 2009 as his highest score. # Kamran's performance vs India is mediocre in ODIs, aggregating 422 in 24 innings, at an average of 20.09 - his only fifty being 51 at Dambulla on June 19, 2010. # Asad Shafiq (41 off 57 balls) has recorded his highest score vs India in ODIs. The said innings is also his highest score in the ICC Champions Trophy. # Wahab Riaz's eighth duck in ODIs is his second vs India. # Shoaib Malik is averaging 25.07 in the ICC Champions Trophy - his tally being 326 runs in fifteen games - his sequence of scores in his last five innings being 27, 2, 0, 8 & 17. # Malik's average is 8.20 in fifteen games in England in ODIs - his aggregate being 123 - strike rate 47.12. His highest in fifteen innings in England is 24 vs England at Manchester on June 17, 2003. # Ravichandran Ashwin (2/35) has produced his best bowling figures vs Pakistan in ODIs. The said performance is also his best in the ICC Champions Trophy. # Junaid Khan has recorded his third duck - his second in the present competition. # Mohammad Irfan has registered his second duck in ODIs - both against India - his sequence of scores against India being 0, 0 not out and 0 - all in 2013. # For the first time, an Indian opening pair (Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan) have recorded successive stands of 100-plus and a 50-plus in the ICC Champions Trophy - 127 vs South Africa at Cardiff; 101 vs West Indies at The Oval and 58 vs Pakistan at Birmingham. # The 58-run stand is India's first fifty-plus partnership for the first wicket vs Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy. The said stand is India's first fifty-plus for the first wicket in eight innings vs Pakistan in ODIs. # Rohit Sharma is averaging 45.00 in the present competition - 135 runs in three innings, including two fifties. |
| India vs Pakistan: ICC Champions Trophy 2013 - Report Posted: 15 Jun 2013 09:00 PM PDT  India beat Pakistan by eight wickets (D/L method) to register their first ever victory against the arch rivals in the Champions Trophy. While the Indian bowlers did well to bowl Pakistan out for 165, India's visibly improved fielding played a vital role in the effort. Dhoni's young brigade were quick on their feet, accurate with their throws at the stumps and showed presence of mind to wrap up the opposition with two balls to spare. India's batsmen then kept their team firmly in the driver's seat through the target revisions due to intermittent rains to take the team to victory. Indian bowlers made early dents in the Pakistan line-up to leave them three wickets down before heavy showers cut 10 overs down from each side's innings. More interruptions later in the second innings forced the target to be revised several times. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who made a spectacular international debut against Pakistan, once again impressed by claiming top-order batsmen to finish with two for nineteen in eight overs. Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ishant Sharma claimed two wickets each. Suresh Raina took a superb catch at second slip to help send back Nasir Jamshed off Kumar early in the innings. The wiry pacer stemmed the flow of runs from one end and struck after the brief first rain interruption to send back Mohammad Hafeez with MS Dhoni taking a diving catch. Ashwin then followed up with the wicket of Kamran Akmal. Virat Kohli took a good catch at leg-slip after the delivery took the inside edge of the bat and bounced off the keeper's thigh. With Pakistan three down for 56, skipper Misbah-ul-Haq joined Asad Shafiq in the middle to stabilise the innings but heavy showers interrupted the rescue act. When the match resumed Dhoni's most successful bowler, Kumar couldn't be brought into the attack as he had bowled out his eight overs – the revised quota of each bowler. The blossoming partnership between Shafiq and Misbah was halted at 54 by Ravindra Jadeja. The left-arm spinner castled the Pakistan captain for 22. Four overs later an Ishant Sharma delivery took a nick of Shafiq's bat and Dhoni did the rest; pulling off a brilliant diving catch behind the stumps. India did not let go of their stranglehold on the Pakistan batting line-up and continued to build pressure by claiming wickets at regular intervals. Trapped leg before by Jadeja, Shoaib Malik was the next to depart while Ashwin bowled Wahab Riaz in the next over to leave Pakistan on 140 for seven. Rohit Sharma's low diving catch in the covers 19 runs later ended Saeed Ajmal's 16-ball knock of five runs off Ishant Sharma in the penultimate over. And a direct-hit by Kohli ran out Junaid Khan for a duck off the next delivery. With nine wickets gone, Pakistan endeavoured to finish their quota of overs, but, the wicketless Umesh Yadav bowling the last over effected a run out to end the innings. Facing the revised 168-run target, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan came out to open the innings for India. Scoring at a good pace they had taken India to 47 without loss in 8.1 overs when rain halted the proceedings. When the Indian openers returned to the crease the innings was further reduced to 36 overs and the target revised to 157. A bit later, Rohit Sharma perished hitting a Saeed Ajmal delivery to mid-wicket. While Dhawan and Kohli looked to take the innings forward, rain again brought out the covers in the next over forcing play to be suspended with India on 63 for one in 11.3 overs. The target then had to be revised again and read 102 from 22 overs. Which meant India needed 39 from 10.3 overs when play resumed. Runs had begun to flow from Dhawan's bat when the left-hand opener departed two runs short of a half-century. After hitting two boundaries off Riaz earlier in the over, he holed out at third-man. Coming together when India needed 24 to win, Kohli and Dinesh Karthik took the team across the line with 17 balls to spare. Brief scores: Pakistan 165 all out in 39.4 overs (A Shafiq 41, B Kumar 2/19, R Jadeja 2/30) lost to India 102/2 in 19.1 overs (S Dhawan 48, V Kohli 22*) by eight wickets under D/L method Man of the Match: Bhuvneshwar Kumar for his match-winning spell of 8-2-19-2 Presentation ceremony: Misbah-ul-Haq is booed as he comes to speak: "Disappointing performance again with the bat, the weather also played a part, difficult to get in and out so many times. In this sort of format, it is too short for the teams because you have one bad day at the start of the tournament, you are almost out of it. I think the bowling did okay for us, the way they are establishing themselves, really a plus for Pakistan." Enjoyed the tournament? "Not much." MS Dhoni gets a big cheer as he walks up: "The fan support has always been there, no matter where we play. The whole team is doing really well, in all the three departments. We are the top fielding side in world cricket as of now, we need to keep the intensity up. Bhuvneshwar bowls very good areas, and can swing the ball, he's someone who has given us the early breakthroughs, good to see him bowl well." Man of the Match is Bhuvneshwar Kumar: "There was a bit of bounce in the wicket, wasn't really nervous because it was Pakistan, but do feel nervous whichever game you play." |
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