Pakistan confronted a convincing defeat by the hands of India within the 2023 Asia Cup Tremendous four match in Colombo on Monday. The defeat was nothing in need of a humiliation, with Pakistan dropping by a staggering margin of 228 runs.
Whereas speaking to India Right this moment, Gavaskar did not maintain again in his criticism of Pakistan’s batting.
“In cricket, there are not any ifs and buts. However the best way Pakistan batted immediately, it appeared India would have been in a position to defend 266 the opposite day if the sport (1st match) had carried on. You understand folks, significantly in Pakistan, carry on speaking about India having just one or two gamers. I imply what number of gamers does Pakistan have? Significantly within the batting division. Aside from Babar who have they got?” Sunil Gavaskar questioned.
“When the bowling staff of the opposition sit down and dissects their batting, they might spend plenty of time on methods to get Babar out. However I do not suppose they might spend half the time on the others. None of them are such that they might scare the bowling group of the opposition staff,” he added.
In response to India’s imposing complete of 356 runs, the nationwide staff might solely muster 128 runs in 32 overs, marking it as India’s most important victory in One Day Worldwide (ODI) cricket towards Pakistan.
This loss ranks as Pakistan’s second-worst defeat in ODI historical past, with the earlier file being a 234-run loss to Sri Lanka in 2009.
It is price noting that because of persistent rain and a broken outfield, the essential match between Pakistan and India within the Tremendous 4 stage of the Asia Cup was rescheduled from Sunday to Monday.