Pakistan’s captain, Salman Ali Agha, admitted that the batting collapse of his team proved to be decisive in his defeat against India in the final of the ASIA T20 2025 Cup of ACC, despite what he described as an “outstanding” bowling performance.
Bate first, the opening torque of Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Zaman gave Pakistan an extravagant beginning Armando 84 races ahead of the middle of the brand.
The best T20I batter, Varun Chakaravarthy, classified gave India his first advance in the tenth at the end when he said goodbye to Farhan, who remained the best scorer with 57 of 38 deliveries, breaking five four and three six.
Despite Farhan’s dismissal, Pakistan was in a decent position, since they had reached 113/1 in 12.4 overs before Kuldeep Yadav returned the Zurdo Saim Ayub batter (14).
His dismissal caused a collapse defined by the game, which saw Pakistan lose his remaining eight wicks for only 33 races in 38 balls and finally retired by a scarce 146 in 19.1 overs.
Speaking in the presentation after the party, the captain of Pakistan, Agha, obtained his inability to obtain enough careers before insinuating a review in the department.
“It is a pill difficult to swallow at this time. We lost wickts while we hit, we were exceptional with the ball but we didn’t have enough races on the board,” said Agha.
“We do not turn the strike and we lost too many WICKETS. We have to solve our batting very soon,” he added.
Despite defending a modest total, the Pakistan bowling unit caused India to make difficult courtyards to pursue the total while admitting 19.4 overs and lost five WICKETS in the process.
Pakistan was especially lethal at the beginning of the second tickets, with Faheem Ashraf and Shaheen Shah Afridi collectively reducing men in blue to 20/3 in four overs by discarding Abhishek Sharma (five), the Southmarkeum pattern Yadav (one) and Shubman Gill (12) Cheap.
Although a brave blow of the medium -sized batter Tilak Varma finally led India to the victory of the title, Agha applauded the bowling of his team to exhibit the sand.
“They went well, in excess, (India) needed 63 of 6 overs and I thought we had the game. But the batting was what cost us the game,” Agha continued.
Pakistan’s captain concluded expressing pride in his team before promising to work hard and return a fort.
“I am very proud of the team, and there is much to wait, we will work hard and return stronger.”
