India are currently taking on Pakistan in the biggest game of the Asia Cup 2025 group stage at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Pakistan have won the toss and elected to bat first in this massive match, and India have got off to a dream start with the ball, taking two wickets in the first two overs. The first blow was struck by Hardik Pandya, when he took the wicket of Saim Ayub. With this wicket, the star all-rounder has managed to create history.
Hardik Pandya took the wicket of Saim Ayub in the first legal ball of the match. This is the first time that an Indian player has taken a wicket in the first ball of a T20I match against Pakistan. Overall he becomes the second Indian bowler to take a wicket in the first ball of a match, after Arshdeep Singh, who achieved the feat in the T20 World Cup 2024 against the USA.
Hardik Pandya becomes the third bowler in history to take a wicket in the first ball of a T20I match against Pakistan. Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara was the first to do so in a match in 2009, while South Africa’s George Linde achieved this feat in a match in 2021.
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Hardik Pandya Needs 9 Runs To Create History
Hardik Pandya has scored 91 runs for India against Pakistan in T20Is. He is already India’s highest wicket-taker against the Men in Green in this format, with 13 scalps to his name. If he scores 9 more runs in the crucial Asia Cup 2025 match, Hardik Pandya will become the first player ever to score 100 runs and take 10+ wickets in T20Is for India against Pakistan.
India Playing XI For Asia Cup 2025 Match Vs Pakistan
Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson (wk), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy