T20 World Cup, India vs Pakistan : "Absolute Hammering" By Babar Azam Team

Victory and defeat are the two sides of the same coin in games. There is no dictum like "heads I win, tails you lose" and "Team India" was very well aware of this. So they never expected that their arch rival Pakistan would hammer them "absolutely" in their first tournament Super 12 match. Babar Azam led Pakistan team has also demolished the 29-year old Jinx of unbeaten India in T20 World Cup.

The shameful defeat on Sunday has exposed the vulnerability of the team India not only against fierce pace attack but also its lackluster bowling. Even World No 7 Jasprit Bumrah bowling looked too poor vs Pakistan left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi. He trapped Rohit Sharma in his very first delivery and got KL Rahul out on in the third over. Afridi demolished the India's opening and from there Kohli's team could never recover. Pakistan bowlers restricted India to 151 with some fireworks from Rishabh Pant. Captain Kohli was brave enough to hit Afridi for a six in fifth over but Indian captain was finally got out by him.

Virat Kohli has good record against Pakistan. He has scored 226 runs against Pakistan in T20 World Cups and has been dismissed only once.He scored 57 runs on Sunday. But it wasn't enough. Both Ravinder Jadeja and Hardik Pandeya couldn't hit hard against Pakistan targeted bowling attack. Jadeja could just score 13 runs in 13 balls and Pandeya 11 runs. He got his shoulder injured while batting.His poor form continues. He hasn't scored much runs in recent months. Suryakumar Yadav who came at 4, played a few shots but was out for in the 6th over.

Pakistan's bowling attack was so disciplined that India could just score 100/4 in 15 overs.

As against this Pakistan batsmen wicket-keeper opener Mohammad Rizwan and Captain Babar Azam made merry of Indian bowling attack. Mohammad Rizwan was too aggressive and scored 79 in just 55 balls. Captain Babar Azam-ranked at No 2 in ICC rankings made 68 in 52 balls.After a spirited bowling performance, Pakistan openers, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan did not let the Indian bowlers settle their lines and lengths as they chased down the target in 17.5 overs.

For the first time, Pakistan defeated India comprehensively by ten wickers.

And like every defeat this time TV and other things were broken in India. Pictures showed a group of men, with stumps in hand, going on a rampage after India lost the match to Pakistan.

In Punjab's Sangrur, Several Kashmiri students of an engineering college were assaulted late night moments after India lost its opening T20 World Cup match against Pakistan. Punjab police officials arrived at the college campus soon after and said that situation at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology was brought under control.

Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar described the 10-wicket defeat as an "absolute hammering" while talking on the post-match show on Star Sports

India play their next game against New Zealand on October 31. Pakistan also have New Zealand in line for their next match.

(Chander Sharma)