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00:00Hello and welcome to our latest update on the India versus Pakistan cricket

00:07World Cup match that's happening at Old Trafford. This is a special coverage on

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00:21gulf underscore news for live updates from our team, cricket team. We're just

00:27catching up after the at the first drinks break to see what's happened so

00:30far and Ashfaq what do you think that the Pakistan bowling has been up to?

00:36See Pakistan bowling India has been playing very well but they saw of Aamir they

00:41didn't take any risk against Aamir who was the most dangerous bowler for

00:46Pakistan so unfortunately there's only more but they started hitting

00:50Hassan Ali and despite getting hit Sir Fraz should have changed him after two

00:56over and he kept on giving over and he got hits and Mohab also couldn't make an

01:02impression so far in the first spell but we are very hopeful I think the

01:09spinners will get some breakthrough and when the ball gets old Aamir and Mohab

01:14will definitely give India tough time. Okay but still do you think Pakistan

01:19should have listened to Imran Khan's advice and batted first? Well it was

01:24good toss to win because the wicket was a bit damp but Indian players are too

01:30good for this wicket. They played very sensibly and the worst thing is

01:36the Pakistan got panic again in the field. They should keep

01:40their calm, they should keep their nerves. They did miss two big runouts. You can't win a match like this.

01:47Yes agree. So Satish this is a new opening partnership in the World Cup

01:53you know people were talking about what will happen if Shikhar Dhawan is not there.

01:58So far it's been impeccable. What do you think? Yeah I think so it's a good

02:04partnership, good start to India and probably you know like Kohli must be

02:09feeling very happy because it's a good toss to lose. Overnight rain and all

02:13these will give you the false hope that the wicket will be damp but so

02:18far what I have seen in the first hour there's been nothing alarming with the

02:21wicket excepting the odd ball turning here especially for Imad Wasim. Apart

02:26from that I didn't see anything on the wicket. Yes it's a new opening

02:31partnership that's why you could see two bad communications and that's where that

02:35could have resulted in two basically Rohit Sharma run out twice basically but

02:40unfortunately Pakistan did not take those chances. So it should be a

02:45costly miss. So first hour I think it's India. So what kind of a total do you

02:50think we are looking at? Total at this start we are looking in excess of 300

02:55which is again bad for Pakistan because in such a crunch high voltage clashes

03:02you need to keep the restrict the opposition well under 300 but this will

03:06I'm sure you know like at this rate accepting a collapse in the middle order

03:10I see a going past well past 300. Okay so and who would you think at this point of

03:17time who does the game belong to? The game belongs to India right now unless

03:21Pakistan does something phenomenally different because I think again as

03:25Ashfaq said the skipper needs to keep his cool Sarfaz Ahmed even a run out

03:33miss or you know like even giving that extra run he gets a little flustered

03:37which I think he should keep his calm and then know like approach it okay

03:41whatever has happened has happened fine but you need to approach it in a much

03:45more calmer fashion because it's not the end of the game it's only the

03:49beginning of the game so you have a lot of hours to go on so this should not

03:54rub on on the batting and know like subsequently the bowling there rather

03:58the death bowling so he needs to keep his calm. So Leslie are you soaking in

04:05the atmosphere of the game? Yeah absolutely I mean I'm just loving it I

04:09mean I'm sure everybody's loving but like I said I think you know but you

04:12are very worried about the weather. You know English weather is crazy you can

04:17get four season in one day you see everybody walking around in England with

04:21a broilie or what we call an umbrella because you know anytime you might have

04:25to whip it out and you could walk a hundred feet and it's suddenly sunny

04:27again but let's not get fooled even though the conditions don't seem bad to

04:33the naked eye they could be pretty severe to batten it's been wet it's been

04:37raining if the Sun comes out I mean there'll be sweating there'll be moisture

04:40in the air and one point I'd like to make I said India went into this match

04:44with a little lot less pressure than Pakistan and that's been vindicated in

04:49the first 15 overs they've got both players openers Rahul and Sharma battled

04:56very cool heads if this was a boxing match look at it that way India have

05:01clearly comprehensively won the opening rounds Pakistan must be looking for that

05:06one punch now to unsettle the opening batsmen's and then play themselves into

05:11the match right eventually the tournament right so let's see how the

05:15next phase works out for both Pakistan and India who gets the first breakthrough

05:20or who gets to the century gets a century first meanwhile keep logging on

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