While India made no changes to the eleven that played the match against Sri Lanka, Pakistan made six changes to the eleven that played the last Indo-Pak encounter. Javed Miandad, the Wasims (Raja and Bari), Tahir Naqqash, Jalal-ud-Din and Mohammad Nazir made way for Saadat Ali, Qasim Umar, Shahid Mahboob, Abdul Qadir, Sarfraz Nawaz and Anil Dalpat.
It was a 46-overs-a-side match. Sunil Gavaskar, India’s skipper, chose to bat on winning the toss. The openers put on 54. Ghulam Parkar, who faced 55 balls, scored 22. He was run out. Dilip Vengsarkar faced 14. His 44-ball innings included a boundary. Mahboob broke the 34-run stand.
Surinder Khanna, the player of the match, scored 56. His 72-ball innings three boundaries and a couple of sixes. He was caught by Dalpat. Mudassar broke the 22-run stand. Sandeep Patil, who faced 50 balls, scored 43. His innings included five boundaries and a six. He was caught by Saleem Malik. Nawaz broke the 78-run stand.
Gavaskar scored 36. His 55-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. He was unbeaten. Pakistan conceded 17 extras. India scored 188 for the loss of four wickets off 46 overs. Azeem Hafeez, who bowled seven overs, conceded 41. He was wicketless, as was Qadir, who bowled 10 overs, including three maidens. He conceded 36.
Mudassar bowled nine overs, including three maidens. He conceded 34. He picked up a wicket, as did Nawaz and Mahboob, who bowled 10 overs, including a maiden, apiece. While the former conceded 37, the latter conceded 23.
Pakistan’s openers put on 23. Ali scored 13. His 21-ball innings included a boundary. He was run out. Khan, who faced 65 balls, scored 35. His (Mohs)innings included a boundary. He was caught by Parkar. Ravi Shastri broke the 46-run stand.
Mudassar, who faced 50 balls, scored 18. He was stumped by Khanna. Shastri broke the third-wicket partnership, which was worth a run. The fourth-wicket pair put on 22. Malik, who faced 17 balls, scored 15. He was run out.
Umar, who faced 30 balls, scored 16. His innings included a couple of boundaries. He was caught by Manoj Prabhakar. Roger Binny broke the 33-run stand. Neither the sixth-wicket pair nor the seventh-wicket pair opened their account. Mahboob and Qadir were run out for first-ball ducks.
Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan’s captain, scored 27. His 45-ball innings included a boundary. He was caught by Madan Lal. Binny broke the three-run stand. Dalpat, who faced a couple of balls, scored a run. He was stumped by Khanna. Shastri broke the five-run stand.
Nawaz, who faced 13 balls, scored four. He was caught by Patil. Binny broke the one-run stand. Hafeez, who faced five balls, failed to get off the mark. He was unbeaten. India conceded five extras. Pakistan, who were dismissed for 134 off 39.4 overs, lost by 54 runs.
Madan Lal bowled six overs, including a maiden. He conceded 21. He was wicketless, as were Chetan Sharma and Prabhakar, who bowled seven overs apiece. While the former conceded 18, the latter conceded 17.
Binny, who bowled 9.4 overs, conceded 33. He picked up three scalps, as did Shastri, who bowled 10 overs, conceding 40.
The Indians won the Rothmans Asia Cup.
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