{"id":42832,"date":"2018-09-23T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42832"},"modified":"2018-09-23T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:53:27","slug":"asia-cup-india-to-face-pakistan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/asia-cup-india-to-face-pakistan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup India to face Pakistan today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India and Pakistan contests are never about strategy but more about emotions running high.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Sunday meeting is another outing in the Super 4 with neither team ready to give an inch in this edge of the seat thriller.India come into this game with 3 out of 3 wins.<\/p>\n<p>Two wins in the opening round over Hong Kong and Paksitan. 8 wicket win in the Super 4 outing over Bangladesh makes India firm favourites to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>On the team front, captain Rohit Sharma has led from the front with two successive half centuries. Rohit&#8217;s partner Shikhar Dhawan has played the support role along with Ambati Rayadu and MS Dhoni&#8217;s in patches. India&#8217;s bowling department has been a revelation with Ravindra Jadeja enjoying his return to Team blue colours like fish to water.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers have helped get the early breakthroughs to keep opposition under check with the tournament picking pace. Kedhar Jadhav&#8217;s all round show leaves team India settled and raring to go.<\/p>\n<p>Opposites Pakistan have played 3 games with 2 wins and one loss in the Asian championship. Pakistan beat Hong Kong but got outbowled by India. Sarfaraz Ahmed led Pakistan bounced back to winning ways in the last over chase over Afgahnistan.<\/p>\n<p>The opening jitters exist but a monumental 154-run partnership between Babar Azam and Imam-ul-Haq has helped Pakistan get stability at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Shoiab Malik&#8217;s experience has been the cog of Pakistan&#8217;s chase. His bang-bang finish with 10 runs needed in the final over with a 6 and four of the first three deliveries has helped Pakistan immensely.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan believe they are getting their MOJO back to be serious contentors for the final spot.<\/p>\n<p>The toss will be a crucial as teams prefer to chase on the Dubai track. The ball does come slowly and teams batting first have struggled on the track.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Pakistan contests are never about strategy but more about emotions running high. Super Sunday meeting is another outing in the Super 4 with neither team ready to give an inch in this edge of the seat thriller.India come into this game with 3 out of 3 wins. Two wins in the opening round [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42834,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42832\/revisions\/42834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}