'This is for India': What Suryakumar Yadav said after smashing Pakistan

NEW DELHI: Defending champions India sent a beardown connection to the cricketing satellite with a 61-run demolition of Pakistan successful their high-stakes Group A clash astatine the R. Premadasa Stadium successful Colombo connected Sunday, securing their spot successful the Super Eights.

“I deliberation this is for India,” said skipper Suryakumar Yadav aft India's large win.

“We played the aforesaid marque of cricket we wanted to play. Batting archetypal was the amended enactment connected this wicket. Ishan thought thing retired of the box. After 0/1, idiosyncratic had to instrumentality work and the mode helium took it was amazing.”The defining infinitesimal came astatine the apical arsenic Ishan Kishan unleashed a breathtaking 77 disconnected 40 balls, including 10 fours and 3 sixes, to enactment India firmly successful control.

Tilak Varma (25) and Suryakumar Yadav (32) added important support, ensuring India reached 175/7 contempt a challenging surface. Shivam Dube’s quickfire 27 successful the decease overs pushed the full to a competitory 176.Pakistan’s reply ne'er gained momentum. Hardik Pandya struck successful the archetypal over, dismissing Sahibzada Farhan for a four-ball duck. Jasprit Bumrah past tore done the apical order, sending Saim Ayub and skipper Salman Agha backmost to the pavilion wrong 2 overs. Usman Khan offered absorption with a fluent 44, stitching insignificant partnerships with Babar Azam and Shadab Khan, but his stumping to Axar Patel ended immoderate faint hopes of a comeback.

The Indian bowlers were ruthless successful unison. Kuldeep Yadav trapped Mohammad Nawaz, Tilak Varma removed Shadab Khan, and Varun Chakaravarthy added 2 precocious wickets. Pandya, aft seeing a mates of catches spell down disconnected his bowling, ensured the finale by knocking backmost Usman Tariq’s mediate stump. Pakistan’s innings folded for 114 successful conscionable 18 overs, their third-lowest T20 World Cup total.“It was large to spot everyone contributing with the ball,” Surya said. “We’ll spell back, person a bully clip unneurotic arsenic a squad and past deliberation astir the different games erstwhile we instrumentality the formation to Ahmedabad,” helium said.