India vs Pakistan Highlights Asia Cup Super 4: Kuldeep rules with memorable five-for as IND steamroll PAK for huge win

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Fakhar Zaman finally shpw some intent as he hits Hardik Pandya for a boundary, but Kuldeep gets rid of him in the next over. Kuldeep cleans up Fakhar for 27(50). PAK: 79/4 (20 overs)

India vs Pakistan Live Score: India introduce spin as Kuldeep Yadav joins the action. He starts with an economical over, which results in two singles. PAK: 71-3 (18 overs)

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The pace attack by Bumrah and Shardul are not allowing Pakistan to score freely. 

India are all over the place as PAK 68-3 in 16 overs.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Hardik Pandya keeps it tight from the other end as just one single come from his over. 

Shardul Thakur continues from the other end as Agha Salman hits the pacer for a boundary. PAK: 56/3 (14 overs)

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Shardul Thakur leads India's attack after the rain delay, and he packs Mohammad Rizwan in his first over. The wicketkeeper-batter falls for 2(5).

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The match will resume at 9:20 pm and no overs have been reduced. So it remains a 50-over contest.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The covers are being removed and the Indian players are out in the field, but there has been no update from the umpires on when will the play resume.

A few moments ago we saw Rahul Dravid having a chat with the umpire.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Oops just when we thought that we might see the action to resume shortly, the covers come once again. 

We can see Rahul Dravid chatting with Rohit Sharma as rain continues to play hide and seek.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The umpires are chatting with the groundstaffs and fourth umpire. 

For now the square still remains covered as we see umpire Chris Gaffaney still holding the umbrella.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The ground staffs have started to peel off the covers and we might see action resume soon. The umpires are standing near the boundary fence for an inspection.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: If we have a truncated contest, this is how the revised targets for Pakistan will look like:

200 in 20 overs

216 in 22

230 in 24

244 in 26

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The ground is entirely covered and the intensity too has increased a bit. 

This is good for Pakistan, who have already lost two wickets in the 357-run chase. Pakistan will need to bat at least 20 overs before we can think of a result.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Rain has once again interrupted the proceedings as the covers are back on. It starts with a drizzle but it is getting heavier, which are not good signs for India.

Hardik Pandya builds more pressure on Pakistan as he strikes in his first overs. He cleans up Babar Azam for 10(24) with a ball nipping back in and it holes through the gap between his bat and pads before knocking the stumps.

Meanwhile, there was a LBW appeal against Mohammad Rizwan later in the over, but umpire thinks it's not-out. India take review, and TV replay confirms it's not-out. India have lost both the reviews. PAK 44-2 (11 overs)

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Babar Azam gets off the mark with a boundary against Jasprit Bumrah. He then hits Mohammed Siraj for another one in the next over, taking Pakistan to 43/1 in 10 overs.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: In an interesting turn of events KL Rahul has taken over the wicketkeeping duties as Mohammad Siraj runs in to bowl his fourth over.

There was also an LBW appeal against Fakhar Zaman, but the ball was pitched outside leg. PAK: 30/1 (8 overs) 

India vs Pakistan Live Score: If Bumrah is steaming in from one end, Siraj is not lagging behind either. After a few wayward deliveries, Siraj has found his ideal length – that good length area outside off and sticking to the 4th-5th stump line. Fakhar meanwhile is off the mark finally after 12 balls but boundaries have been far and few for Pakistan. What a difference this is making to the Indian bowling attack.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Babar on none off four, Fakhar on none off 8. A wicket maiden from Bumrah, he is looking almost unplayable. Pakistan have some real problems to deal with early on here.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Full from Bumrah and angling in from around the wicket, Imam plays at it but straightens away from him. It takes the outside edge and goes to Gill at second slip.

Imam-ul-Haq c Shubman Gill b Bumrah 9 (18), Pakistan 17/1 in 4.2 overs

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Safe to say that Pakistan have not got off to the kind of start that India had yesterday. Fakhar yet to get off the mark after facing eight balls, Imam looking much better on 8 off 10.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Short from Siraj outside off for the third ball of the second over, Imam gets on top of it and smashes it wide of point.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The ball swinging and fizzing everywhere and the only runs Pakistan got were from those five wides. He beat Fakhar's outside edge with the last ball. Now comes Siraj from the other end.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: And Pakistan have their first runs on the board. Bumrah had gone up in appeal off the previous ball that swung into Fakhar's pads. He tries to do the same next ball but this one goes down the leg side and out of Ishan Kishan's reach.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq are out there for Pakistan. Jasprit Bumrah will finally bowl in this Asia Cup, he has the ball in his hands. If Pakistan are to pull this off, they need Fakhar, Imam and Babar Azam to do the heavy lifting.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: ...is looking quite good at the moment. Clear black night sky over the Premadasa. However, there is rain forecast later in the evening and so DLS will come into play. If it comes down to a 20-over chase, Pakistan will have to score 187 to win this.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: When these two had come together yesterday, Pakistan were back in it. They had got rid of the dangerous opening pair in consecutive overs. But Kohli saw out the day while Rahul looked good with a couple of boundaries. Today, they have gone on to break the record for the highest partnership by an Indian pair against Pakistan in ODIs. They have surpassed the 231 between Sachin Tendulkar and Navjot Singh Sidhu in Sharjah in 1996.

“Very special for us. He (Rahul) was playing his first match after coming back from injury and to be able to score a century in these conditions was pretty magnificent. Obviously Virat Bhai also completed his century and got to 13000 runs which shows his great inspiration to all of us. The ball was doing a little bit in the initial period and they also bowled well with the new ball, but it was important for us to take them on and put the bad balls away to put the pressure back on them. I think he (Shaheen) was trying to attack the wickets and I wanted to show intent, worked for me yesterday. There's a bit of seam movement and once the ball gets older we have to mix it up with slower ones, I found it difficult when they were mixing up their length and pace.”

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Kohli has now matched Hashim Amla to score the most consecutive centuries at the same venue in ODIs. Amla had four consecutive centuries in Centurion while Kohli has scored as many at the R Premadasa Stadium now. He is the fastest to 13,000 ODI runs. He was already the fastest to 8000, 9000, 10,000, 11,000 and 12,000 ODI runs as well. He is also now just two centuries away from equalling Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI centuries. That last one was a stat that most fans and commentators would have thought is untouchable back when Tendulkar got there. Well, Virat Kohli had other plans. 

India vs Pakistan Live Score: Oh fans had to wait but they got to see Virat Kohli at his very best today. He walks down the track and smashes Faheem's knee high full toss over the bowler's head to the boundary. He ends on 122 off 94, Rahul ends on 111 off 106. This partnership is unbeaten on 233 off 194.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: And India have crossed 350. Full outside off, Kohli extends his arm and sends the ball over the off side.

Oh Kohli pulls one out of his magic hat. He comes across the stumps, shaping up for a paddle sweep, spots Faheem sending it wide and then adjusts to slice it fine.

Last over now, Faheem Ashraf to bowl it. Rahul is on strike and on 109 off 104, Kohli at the other end on 107 off 89. The partnership is on 214 off 187.

Low full toss on leg from Iftikhar, Kohli flicks it away perfectly and it runs to the boundary.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: This is turning out to be quite a nightmare for Pakistan. First they were forced to keep Rauf out for the day and now Naseem is walking off holding his wrist. After bowling just two balls in the 49th over.

Shaheen Afridi has finished with figures of 1/79. It has been that kind of a match for the Pakistan fast bowlers. Rahul is on 108 off 103 balls, Kohli on 100 off 84.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: The carnage continues. The fourth ball is swatted away past wide long off. That brings up the 200-run partnership. Then Rahul moves to off and paddles a yorker length delivery past the short fine leg fielder.

Single off the third ball of the 48th, Kohli pumps his first in the air and jumps. He has got there in just 84 balls and moreover, he had become the fastest to 13,000 ODI runs as well just a ball earlier. A legend makes his stamp and this has been some partnership between him and Rahul.

A century on his comeback from a long injury break. Rahul has shown why India brought him back in the team as soon as he was available. He is crucial to India's cause in ODIs.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: It's a race between these two now, who will get to the century first? Kohli has moved to 96 with that shot off just 80 balls. Smashes Naseem over his head for six quite like how he hit Rauf at the MCG at the 2022 T20 World Cup.

India vs Pakistan Live Score: That is just genuis running between the wickets from Kohli and Rahul. Kohli especially has been off in a flash whenever he wanted two. Seven comes from just running between the wickets in that over, Kohli moves to 88 off 77, Rahul on 97 off 98.