In Asia Cup 2023, the Indian team has qualified for Super-4 by winning the match against Nepal by one-sided 10 wickets. India’s first match against Pakistan was lost due to rain. After this, in the second match, Team India got the target of 145 runs in 23 overs due to rain against Nepal. They achieved this in 20.1 overs without any loss. Captain Rohit played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs while Shubman Dis played an unbeaten inning of 67 runs.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma appeared unhappy even after this victory. He said in his statement after the match that he was not happy with his innings, there was some nervousness in the beginning but once I got my sights set on it, I wanted to return after making the team win. Rohit said about his flick shot that it was not played intentionally, I wanted to chip it over short fine but due to the bat being good today, the shot went in some other direction.
Rohit further said in his statement that when we were going to come here, we knew who would be our 15 players for the World Cup. In the Asia Cup, we were not going to get the right picture from the two matches, but we were lucky that we got a chance to bat in the first match and bowl in the second. This gave us a chance to play a full match. We have a lot of work to do as a team. Many players are making a comeback after getting fit and it is important for them to get back into rhythm soon. We bowled well in today’s match but we need a lot of improvement in fielding.
Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammad Siraj took 3-3 wickets in bowling.
In the match against Nepal, the Indian team had dropped catches of both their opening batsmen in the first two overs. In this, Shreyas Iyer took one catch at slip while the other was left by Virat Kohli towards short cover point. Apart from this, wicketkeeper Ishaan Kishan also dropped 2 catches.