Abhishek Sharma falls for four-ball duck in first over vs Pakistan

Abhishek Sharma’s thin tally successful the T20 World Cup continued arsenic the India opener fell for a four-ball duck against Pakistan successful the high-voltage Group A clash successful Colombo connected Sunday.In a bold tactical move, Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha took the caller shot himself and struck successful the precise archetypal implicit of the contest. Abhishek, looking to get disconnected the people quickly, failed to settee and was dismissed without scoring, handing Pakistan an aboriginal breakthrough.

The left-hander had besides been dismissed for a duck against the USA earlier successful the tournament, raising concerns implicit his signifier astatine the apical of the order. Abhishek was backmost into the playing eleven for the important encounter. He replaced Sanju Samson, portion Kuldeep Yadav came successful for Arshdeep Singh. Abhishek had earlier missed the Namibia fixture aft being hospitalised successful New Delhi with a tummy infection.Suryakumar Yadav and Agha did not shingle hands astatine the flip astatine the R Premadasa Stadium, continuing a inclination seen during their meetings astatine the Asia Cup successful Dubai past year, including the final.

Agha won the flip and opted to bowl.Pakistan fielded an unchanged side, portion India reshuffled successful hunt of stability. However, Agha’s aboriginal onslaught ensured Pakistan seized contiguous power of the contest.Playing XIsIndia: Ishan Kishan (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, and Jasprit BumrahPakistan: Sahibzada Farhan (wk), Saim Ayub, Salman Agha (captain), Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman Tariq, and Abrar Ahmed