Ishan, Hardik, Tilak: Saim Ayub's triple strike stuns India in Colombo

India came to Colombo prepared for Usman Tariq, but it was Saim Ayub who turned the crippled somewhat successful Pakistan’s favour with a cardinal spell that checked India’s advancement successful their T20 World Cup clash successful Colombo connected Sunday.

Ayub archetypal removed Ishan Kishan, who had acceptable the gait for India, and past returned to disregard Tilak Varma conscionable erstwhile India were preparing for a precocious push. Tilak was beaten connected the expanse and fell for 25 disconnected 24 balls.Hardik Pandya walked successful and looked to onslaught immediately. Ayub bowled a carrom shot that took a heavy extracurricular borderline arsenic Pandya attempted a large shot. He was caught astatine long-off for a aureate duck arsenic India slipped to 126 for 4 successful 14.3 overs.Ayub astir completed a hat-trick. On the hat-trick ball, helium bowled with loop and dip, pitching connected limb and turning past Shivam Dube’s defense. The shot bounced implicit the stumps. Pakistan reviewed for a caught behind, but determination was nary edge.Saim Ayub finished his spell with 3 wickets, portion conceding conscionable 25 runs successful 4 overs.Earlier successful the innings, India had mislaid Abhishek Sharma for his 2nd duck successful 2 World Cup innings.

However, Kishan ensured the innings did not dilatory down and recorded the third-fastest 50 successful India-Pakistan T20Is.Fastest 50s successful Ind-Pak T20Is (by balls)23 – Mohd Hafeez, Ahmedabad, 201224 – Abhishek Sharma, Dubai, 202527 – Ishan Kishan, Colombo (RPS), 2026*29 – Yuvraj Singh, Ahmedabad, 2012Kishan reached his half-century successful 27 balls, getting determination with a bound disconnected Abrar Ahmed’s 2nd transportation successful the seventh over.Kishan continued to people and made 77 from 40 balls earlier being dismissed. The transportation did not look to favour precocious totals. Pakistan bowled 5 overs of rotation successful the powerplay, lone the 13th clip a 5th implicit of rotation has been utilized wrong a World Cup powerplay.Before the lucifer began, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav did not shingle hands with Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha astatine the toss, continuing the attack followed since the Asia Cup successful Dubai past year.