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Kohli trumps Pakistan

Bishwajit Roy
The prematch hype had built this _ up as a battle
between India's batting and Pakistan's bowling. But yesterday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, the willow triumphed over leather as India crushed arch-rivals Pakistan in their high-voltage Asia Cup encounter.
India's magnificent six-wicket win owed much to Virat Kohli's spectacular 183 off 148 balls as the world champions overcame Pakistan's formidable 329 with more than two overs to spare. Pakistan's loss now means that Bangladesh have to beat Sri Lanka to secure a place in the final of the prestigious tournament for the first time.
Kohli's second ton of the tournament upstaged centuries from both of Pakistan's openers Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed who propelled their side to what looked like a perfectly defendable, if not mammoth, total. But Kohli was in imperious form as he struck 22 boundaries and one six to make him the highest individual scorer against Pakistan ever, eclipsing Brian Lara’s 156 at Adelaide in 2005. It was also India's highest successful run chase in one-day internationals ahead
of the 326-8 against England in the famous Lord's final in 2002. For Pakistan, this was the first time since 2000 that they lost a game after posting an over-300 scoreline.
It had all looked so unlikely when India made a disastrous start on the flat track as spinner Hafeez trapped Gautam Gambhir in front from the very second ball of the first over. But Kohli joined Sachin Tendulkar to steady the ship with a 113-run second wicket partnership.
Saeed Ajmal broke the partnership when Tendulkar, who followed up his hundredth century with a 48-ball 52 with five fours and a six, was deceived by a doosra which got an outside edge to find Younis Khan at first slip.
Rohit Sharma then came to share a 172-run third wicket stand with Kohli to take the game away from Pakistan. Sharma was out for 68 leaving his team needing25 runs from as many balls.
It was however the story of Kohli who almost single-handedly controlled the Indian innings to secure the magnificent victory and keep the holders final hopes alive. The young righthander looked confident from the very first ball and tackled the variety of the Pakistan attack brilliantly to hog the spotlight from Hafeez and Jamshed.
Earlier, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first in a batting paradise
and Hafeez and Jamshed proved their captain's decision right by associating in a 224-run opening stand, Pakistan's second-highest in one-day international. After having failed to defend 289 against Bangladesh, the Indian bowling attack once again looked helpless against the two batsmen as they even failed to provide any penetration.
Right-hander Hafeez and southpaw Jamshed stroked boundaries at will against a toothless bowling on their way to centuries and later Younis Khan smashed 52 off 34 deliveries at the death to lift Pakistan to their second-highest total against India.
India were made to wait for 35.5 overs and 224 runs to get their first wicket, that of Jamshed for 112, but not before the duo had entered themselves into the record books.
It was their second century stand in three games, having earlier put on 135 for the first wicket against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup opener.
India employed eight bowlers in total as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried everything to break the stand. The only chance came off Sachin Tendulkar, a rare sight at the bowling crease these days, when he dropped a hard hit caught and bowled chance off Jamshed in the 26th over with the score
on 153. The left-hander was then on 69.
By then the pair had already crossed the previous Pakistan record for opening stands against India, which was 144 by Sohail and Anwar in 1996. It was Hafeez, however, who brought up his fourth ODI hundred first, in the 33rd over with a single to mid-off off the 103rd ball ofhis innings. Hafeez made 105 before he was dismissed by AshokeDinda.
Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin however broke the partnership sending back Jamshed when they were just four runs shy of Pakistan's record for the first wicket of228.
The pair also narrowly missed the record for the highest Pakistan partnership against India, which is 230 for the third wicket set by Anwar and Ijaz Ahmed in the third final of the Silver Jubilee Independence Cup in 1998, also in Dhaka.