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Hardik Pandya (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
India were dealt a assemblage stroke up of their high-voltage Asia Cup 2025 last clash against Pakistan successful Dubai, arsenic all-rounder Hardik Pandya was ruled retired owed to a quadricep injury. The confirmation came from erstwhile India manager and existent broadcaster Ravi Shastri, who broke the quality connected air.Pandya, often hailed arsenic India’s game-changer successful crunch moments, had been cardinal to the team’s plans for the marquee contest. His lack leaves a large void, peculiarly fixed his stellar grounds against Pakistan and his quality to lend successful some departments. The setback stems from India’s Super Four brushwood with Sri Lanka connected Friday, wherever Pandya started brightly by striking successful the archetypal implicit but soon near the tract and played nary further portion successful the game.Ahead of the final, doubts implicit his availability intensified erstwhile helium was seen astatine the crushed successful trainers alternatively than cricket spikes, moving cautiously alongside the squad physio. Skipper Suryakumar Yadav confirmed the inevitable astatine the toss, revealing, “Unfortunately, Hardik misses retired owed to a niggle.” He besides announced that Jasprit Bumrah, Shivam Dube, and Rinku Singh came into the XI, portion Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana missed out.
The timing of Pandya’s wounded is peculiarly frustrating. With 98 wickets from 120 T20Is, helium stood conscionable 2 abbreviated of the prestigious 100-wicket milestone, thing lone Arshdeep Singh has achieved for India successful the shortest format. In the existent Asia Cup, Pandya claimed 4 wickets crossed six outings, operating astatine an system complaint of 8.57.India vs Pakistan XIsPakistan XI: Fakhar Zaman, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Agha (captain), Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Abrar AhmedIndia XI: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy
