India, needing to win the match to stay alive, posted their first Super Eights victory in World Twenty20s since 2007.
India vs Pakistan ICC T20 World Cup 2012 Match Report
Regardless of the tournament setting, India-Pakistan cricket matches frequently include a contest of nerves as much as skill. In keeping with recent times, when the Indian cricket team has typically emerged as the mentally stronger team, Pakistan’s batters gave up too easily, blowing a promising start, and posting the lowest score in the ICC World Twenty20 2012 Super Eights stage. Then, with an incredible 78*, Virat Kohli, who had hit 183 against Pakistan in his last outing, led the chase of 129.
One of the two jinxes would be broken in this game. India won the World Twenty20s Super Eights for the first time since 2007, knowing they had to win to survive. The Pakistan cricket team had yet to triumph over India in a World Cup encounter. Pakistan was a team that was synonymous with fear. They attempted to be flashy with the bat but were unsuccessful, and they lacked the courage to support their excellent bowling and attack. Conversely, India handled the little things expertly following a tense beginning and was ready to seize any chance Pakistan offered.
Pakistan started the opening two overs with five boundaries and 26 runs, but they were more nervous than excited and fell apart in the next overs. It took them 6.5 overs to get the next 26 runs, as several of their batsmen, including skipper Mohammad Hafeez, who hit 15 off 28, simply froze. Pakistan faced quite steady bowling with 53 dot balls. They did not even play out the full 20 overs.
Every pre-match move made by India was effective. With a combined score of 3 for 37 in their six overs, the part-timers’ performance made playing just four bowlers reasonable. Balaji gave back 3 for 22 figures. In the hunt, though, it appeared for a brief while that things would not be simple. After dismissing Gautam Gambhir for a duck, Pakistan’s new spinner Raza Hasan encountered a brick block the size of Kohli.
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Virender Sehwag, who was making his comeback, contributed significantly as well, adding 74 for the second wicket, but his companion at the wicket stole the show. The fact that Pakistan was suddenly acting meekly helped.
Attacking guys were conspicuously absent, and the match had entirely slid out of Pakistan’s hands when, in the ninth over, Kohli edged Afridi through the unoccupied slip with the run rate still at almost a run per ball. Kohli summed up India’s composure on the big night by remaining composed even after Sehwag was dismissed to complete the chase easily.
India vs Pakistan ICC T20 World Cup 2012 Match Info:
- Match 20
- Group 2 ICC T20 World Cup 2012
- Date: September 30th 2012
- Venue: R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Toss: Pakistan
- Player of the match: Virat Kohli (India)
- Umpires: Rod Tucker, Richard Kettleborough
- TV Umpire: Kumar Dharmasena
- Match Result: India won by 8 wickets
India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup 2012 Match Scorecard:
Pakistan 2012 Innings:
Batsmen | Status | Runs | Balls | Strike-Rate |
Mohammad Hafeez |
b V Kohli | 15 | 28 | 53.57 |
Imran Nazir |
lbw b I Pathan | 8 | 5 | 160.00 |
Shahid Afridi |
c S Raina b L Balaji | 14 | 12 | 116.67 |
Nasir Jamshed |
c M Dhoni b Y Singh | 4 | 5 | 80.00 |
Kamran Akmal |
c M Dhoni b Y Singh | 5 | 6 | 83.33 |
Shoaib Malik | c R Sharma b R Ashwin | 28 | 22 | 127.27 |
Umar Akmal |
c S Raina b R Ashwin | 21 | 18 | 116.67 |
Yasir Arafat |
run out (Y Singh) | 8 | 11 | 72.73 |
Umar Gul | c M Dhoni b L Balaji | 12 | 10 | 120.00 |
Saeed Ajmal |
c M Dhoni b L Balaji | 1 | 2 | 50.00 |
Raza Hasan | Not Out | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 128 all out |
Extras: 12
Bowlers | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy |
R Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 4 |
Zaheer Khan | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 |
Irfan Pathan | 3 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 10 |
Virat Kohli | 3 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 7 |
Lakshmipathy Balaji | 3.4 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 6.47 |
Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 5.33 |
India 2012 Innings:
Batsmen | Status | Runs | Balls | Strike-Rate |
Gautam Gambhir | c & b Raza Hasan | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Virender Sehwag | c Umar Gul b Shahid Afridi | 29 | 24 | 120.83 |
Virat Kohli | Not Out | 78 | 61 | 127.87 |
Yuvraj Singh | Not Out | 19 | 16 | 118.75 |
Total (17 overs) | 129/2 |
Extras: 5
Bowlers | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Economy |
Mohammad Hafeez | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Shahid Afridi | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 8.50 |
Saeed Ajmal | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.50 |
Umar Gul | 3 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10.00 |
Yasir Arafat | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 11 |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1) What happened to India during the 2012 T20 World Cup?
India failed to qualify for the T20 World Cup semi-finals due to a low NRR, and their adventure ended in the Super 8s for the third time in a row.
2) Who won the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in 2012?
West Indies.
3) Who was India’s captain in the 2012 T20 World Cup?
MS Dhoni.
