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IND vs PAK Asia Cup 2023: Records That Can Be Made By India On 2 Sep At Kandy. India and Pakistan are clashing in the 3rd match of Asia Cup 2023 at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy. It is the first match of Men in Blue in the tournament. Pakistan won their first match by beating Nepal with huge margin by 238 runs at Multan on August 30.

Whenever these two arch-rivals clash many records are made and many are broken. The same is going to happen today where India and Pakistan are playing their 133rd ODI. Both teams last met in ODI at World Cup 2019 where India beat Pakistan and maintained their unbeaten record in WC against Pakistan.
Today’s match will be the 37th ODI match played at Kandy. 21 matches were won by the team who bowled first, and 15 won by batting first.

IND vs PAK Asia Cup 2023: Records That Can Be Made On 2 Sep At Kandy

  1. Virat Kohli scored 12898 runs in 275 matches with an average of 57.32. If he scores 102 runs today, he will become the fastest batsman to score 13000 runs in ODI.
  2. India has won 7 out of the last 10 ODIs against Pakistan.
  3. Men in Blue holds the edge over Pakistan in Asia Cup ODIs (7-5)
  4. 2 of the first 3 ODI matches in Sri Lanka were abandoned between India vs Pakistan. One match was abandoned due to rain in 1997.
  5. This will be the 28th ODI match under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy
  6. Rohit Sharma vs Pakistan in last ODI- Oval 2017 (0), Dubai 2018 (52), Dubai 2018 (111), Machester 2019 (140)

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Asia Cup 2023 India vs Pakistan Playing 11

India Playing 11
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma (C), S Gill, Shreyas Iyer, I Kishan (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Md Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav.

Pakistan Playing 11
Iftikhar Ahmed, Md Rizwan (WK), Fakhar Zaman, Imam Ul Haq, Babar Azam (C), A Salman, S Khan, Md Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf.