Thoughts

Let's start writing. It's 9:58 and I am going to write till 10:30 now. I am not super sure what to write but I really liked the game today India vs Pakistan. As it started, India won the toss and elected to bowl first. When we elected to bowl, what happened is Pakistan started really well. At the end of the power play they were I believe some 46-0 and then at the end of 10 overs they were almost 90-1. This did put India in a back foot and then we took a wicket at around 113-2. At this stage Pakistan were looking like they would score around 60 more runs and they would post a target of 180. That would have been a challenging target. But then India came back and then bowled brilliantly or the Pakistani shot selection was poor, idk. But India won the game at the point where we took all the 8 wickets in very less runs. The completed at 146 all out and they didn't even play the whole 20 overs. Clearly, it was the pressure in the minds of Pakistani batters that inorder to win a c...

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