Postpublished at 10:26 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Iftikhar Ahmed's incredible striking from a little earlier...Monster monster sixes, as the late Eric Hall might say.
Summary
India win dramatic match by four wickets
Kohli hits unbeaten 82 off 53 balls
Ind 160-6 (20 overs): Kohli 82* (53), Pandya 40 (37); Rauf 2-36, Nawaz 2-42
Pak 159-8 (20 overs): Masood 52* (42), Iftikhar 51; Pandya 3-30, Arshdeep 3-32
Postpublished at 10:26 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Postpublished at 10:26 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
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End of twitter postPak 115-5published at 15.2 overs
Intelligent batting from Mohammad Nawaz, who elects to use the pace of a short ball from Hardik Pandya rather than attempting to hook or pull.
He is back deep in his crease to waspishly guide it through third for four. Lovely shot.
Postpublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Corbin Middlemas
BBC Test Match SpecialThe ball has hit the cabling for the spider cam and it's been signalled dead ball. That may have cost India a wicket.
Shan Masood dropped on 31published at 10:24 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Next ball Shan Masood offers Ravichandran Ashwin a return catch but the India spinner spills it. It was to Ashwin's right and was travelling at a fair lick. Tough chance.
Pak 103-5published at 14.3 overs
What the...dead ball
Not something you see every day. Shan Masood with a heave off Ravichandran Ashwin which hits spider cam and it is called dead ball by the umpires.
Web of confusion etc etc.
Postpublished at 10:19 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Corbin Middlemas
BBC Test Match SpecialPakistan from such a dominant position are five down.
WICKETpublished at 14.0 overs
Haider Ali c Yadav b Pandya 2 (Pak 98-5)
Suryakumar Yadav is waiting an age down at long-on again as this time Haider Ali pumps Hardik Pandya high into the air off the final ball of his over.
Yadav is the coolest man in the ground as he again holds the catch.
WICKETpublished at 13.2 overs
Shadab Khan c Yadav b Pandya 5 (Pak 96-4)
In the words of Richie Benaud, that was a beauty. Hardik Pandya beats new batter Shadab Khan with a peach of a delivery outside off stump.
Next ball is back of a length and a cross-batted hoick from Shadab and he sends the ball into the night sky.
Suryakumar Yadav has time to browse his stamp albums while he waits for the ball to come down with snow on, before he takes the catch safely down at long on.
Postpublished at 10:10 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at the MCGEver wondered what the view is like from the very back row of the MCG?
Image source, BBC SportPostpublished at 10:09 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Cameron White
Former Australia all-rounder on BBC Test Match SpecialThere's the breakthrough and this could tilt things back in favour of India.
WICKETpublished at 12.2 overs
Iftikhar Ahmed lbw b Mohammed Shami 51 (Pak 91-3)
Iftikhar Ahmed gets himself a half-century but his explosive hitting is brought to an end...and it's that skilful operator Mohammed Shami to whom Rohit Sharma is thankful.
It's full and just nips off the seam ever so slightly and strikes Iftikhar on the back pad. No hesitation from the rosy-cheeked Marais Erasmus who is quick to raise his finger.
From the press boxpublished at 10:07 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
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Cameron White
Former Australia all-rounder on BBC Test Match SpecialFinally Pakistan have got India under pressure for the first time in the game.
Postpublished at 10:07 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Geoff Lemon
BBC Test Match Special commentatorYou can feel a bit of momentum building to what might be a competitive total.
Pak 91-2published at 12.0 overs
And another! Although, not quite as big.
Iftikhar Ahmed is fortunate after a quite brilliant attempt to save the boundary by the diving KL Rahul who attempts to throw it back over the rope mid air but is not quite able to execute it.
Postpublished at 10:05 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Geoff Lemon
BBC Test Match Special commentatorThat's an absolute monster and Iftikhar hitting sixes in the biggest ground in the world!
Pak 82-2published at 11.3 overs
Boom boom time...
Axar Patel into the attack and Iftikhar Ahmed has decided now is the time to go big!
He slogs sweep him over long-on for a maximum and then two balls later he's down the pitch to biff him back over his head for another maximum.
Big sixes. Big hits.
Postpublished at 10:02 British Summer Time 23 October 2022
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at the MCGBy far the loudest Pakistani cheer of the night…
Pak 70-2published at 11.0 overs
Huge boundaries here at the MCG and Iftikhar Ahmed skips down the track fifth ball to wallop Ravichandran Ashwin for the first six of the Pakistan innings.
The boundaries are slightly shorter straight but it's still a fair hit.
Iftikhar and Shan Masood both have 30 off 26 and 27 balls respectively.