India vs Pakistan Highlights, Asia Cup 2025: IND's dominance over PAK continues, brush past rivals in hostile match

India vs Pakistan Live Score, Asia Cup 2025, Ind vs Pak: Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill's 105-run opening partnership set the stage for another dominant win over Pakistan.

India vs Pakistan Highlights, Asia Cup 2025, Ind vs Pak: An ultimately simple victory for India, with seven deliveries to spare and six wickets in hand. Chasing 172, Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill put on a quick 105-run partnership, and Tilak Varma finished with a flourish to give India a seventh consecutive win over Pakistan across formats. A strong position to have in the Super 4s.

Pakistan finished on 171/5 from 20 overs, a score which India would be happy with. Why? Because at one stage, Pakistan were motoring along, scoring almost a 100 after 10 overs. India pulled things back in the middle order with Kuldeep Yadav and Shivam Dube applying the brakes and picking up wickets. India endured three dropped catches, which forces one to imagine that the Men in Blue could have restricted Pakistan to probably under 150 had the fielders hung on to their catches. Sahibzada Farhan top-scored with 58, while Dube picked up 2/33 for India.

Pakistan batters are in a serious mood tonight. Sahibzada Farhan has completed his half-century, lifting the Pakistan scoring rate to almost 10 runs an over. Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav have all been off-colour, allowing Pakistan batters to go hammer and tongs.

The Indian fielding, especially their catching, seems to be at sixes and sevens. After Abhishek Sharma dropped a catch in the first over, Kuldeep Yadav added to India's woes, grassing another regulation catch while fielding at short fine leg.

Fakhar Zaman was beginning to get a move on, helping himself to a couple of early boundaries to put India under pressure. However, the fireworks did not last long, with Hardik dismissing the opener out caught behind. Fakhar left the field in anger, believing the ball had not carried. The third umpire took his sweet time to finally find the visual conclusive before raising his finger.

What an eventful first six balls we have witnessed in the opening over of the match. Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan injured himself second ball before he was dropped by Abhishek Sharma at third man. Pakistan, ever since, have been busy, placing the balls regularly in the gaps to collect doubles and hit the occasional boundary.

India Playing XI:

1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Sanju Samson (Wicketkeeper), 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Varun Chakravarthy.

Pakistan Playing XI:

1 Sahibzada Farhan, 2 Saim Ayub, 3 Fakhar Zaman, 4 Salman Agha (Captain), 5 Hussain Talat, 6 Mohammad Haris (Wicketkeeper), 7 Mohammad Nawaz, 8 Faheem Ashraf, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Abrar Ahmed.

India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2025 Highlights:

- Suryakumar Yadav wins the toss and opts to bowl first

- Bumrah, Varun come back in for India

- Farhan Sahibzada dropped in the first over

- Jasprit Bumrah gets hit around

- Fakhar Zaman dismissed in controversial circumstances

- Saim Ayub dropped, Kuldeep puts down a sitter

- PAK 55/1 after the powerplay

- Pakistan post 171/5 in 20 overs after Faheem Ashraf's late blitz