India vs Pakistan: Pakistan Practice Gabba: Despite playing a match less than 24 hours ago, Babar Azam-led Pakistan decided to have a full-fledged nets session on Tuesday at the Gabba. England bruised Pakistan and thrashed them in the warm-up game. Before the mega IND vs PAK clash, Pakistan decided to have their preparation ready, especially with short-pitch deliveries. Pakistan will face Afghanistan on Wednesday for their last warm-up clash and that will wrap up their preparations. Follow IND vs PAK LIVE Updates & ICC T20 World Cup 2022 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN.
Babar spent long 45 minutes facing short-pitch deliveries with Pak bowlers instructed to bowl bouncers and shorter lengths. Indian bowlers have made a potent weapon of short deliveries and Pakistan batters are well aware of that. India troubled Australian and South African batters with such deliveries in the recent series. Apart from India’s regular pace attack, Hardik Pandya too has resorted to such a technique.
India vs Pakistan: Rohit Sharma & Co take day off, Pakistan practice at Gabba nets to counter India’s short balls, Watch Video
Babar Azam’s short-pitch practice: Babar Azam has struggled against short-pitch deliveries of late. It was clearly evident in the Asia Cup. Against England too, he did struggle. With Mohammad Shami possessing the short-ball weapon besides Hardik Pandya, Babar Azam wants to get the homework done.
The other reason is that Pakistan played in New Zealand with a different range of bounce. In Australia, it will be different again. Hence to get adjusted to the bounce, Pakistan had their short-pitch practice on Tuesday.
Pakistan watched India’s match against Australia on Monday from the stands. With Mohammad Shami bowling just 1 over but delivering 3 brilliant yorkers, Pakistan know he is ready to come back. Hence, Pakistan do not want to be underprepared.
India didn’t practice today but Pakistan did. https://t.co/6apc0avgvN watch how Babar was batting. #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/mFH97Dkcd3
— Vimal कुमार (@Vimalwa) October 18, 2022
India vs Pakistan: Rohit Sharma & Co take day off, Pakistan practice at Gabba nets to counter India’s short balls, Watch Video
IND vs NZ Warm-Up: Meanwhile, India will play their last warm-up game against NewZealand before the BIG SUPER-12 Matches. The Kiwis will open with match against the World Champion Australia. India meanwhile will play the SUNDAY Blockbuster against Pakistan. The news from the Indian camp is that they will rest Suryakumar Yadav for the last WARM-UP match and his place can go to Deepak Hooda or Rishabh Pant.
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) October 18, 2022
Surya has been playing nonstop and the team management is looking to give his rest before the BIG GAME vs Pakistan. Hooda or Pant is likely to take his place in XI. It may be the case that both are played & one of the top 3 i.e Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul or Virat Kohli sits out for the Warm-UP Match.
India T20 WC Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh. Standby Players: Mohammad Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur
Pakistan T20 WC Squad: Haider Ali, Shan Masood, Shadab Khan (vc), Mohammad Nawaz, Khushdil Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Rizwan, Babar Azam (C).
India vs Pakistan: Rohit Sharma & Co take day off, Pakistan practice at Gabba nets to counter India’s short balls, Watch Video
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