Saturday's ICC Cricket World Cup action comes from Ahmedabad where India clash with Pakistan and both sides boast a 100% record.

 

 

India

India have 2 wins from 2 having beaten Australia by 6 wickets in their opening match before seeing off Afghanistan by 8 wickets.

India restricted Australia to just 199 in their first action of the tournament and despite losing 3 of their top 4 batsmen for ducks Kohli (85) and KL Rahul (97 not out) took them home in 41.2 overs.

 

In midweek India found themselves chasing 273 for victory against Afghanistan (Bumrah 4/39) and Rohit Sharma smashed 131 supported by Kishan (47) and Kohli (55 not out) as victory was completed with 15 overs to spare.

 

Squads and Team News

This was how India lined up last time out.

 

Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

 

Did not play: Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Suryakumar Yadav

 

Pakistan

Pakistan's opening matches were both staged at Hyderabad. First up they beat the Netherlands by 81 runs, successfully defending 286 (Rizwan, Saud Shakeel both 68) in a 81 run victory. Haris Rauf took 3 wickets as the Netherlands were bowled out for 205.

 

In their second match Pakistan had to chase down Sri Lanka's bat first total of 344/9 (Hasan Ali )4/71) and Abdullah Shafique (113) and Mohammad Rizwan (131) were the chief destroyers as they got up to win by 6 wickets in 48.2 overs.

 

Squads and Team News

This was how Pakistan lined up last time out.

 

Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf

 

Did not bat: Agha Salman, Usama Mir, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Fakhar Zaman

 

Head to Head

Overall the teams have met 134 times with India winning 56 to Pakistan's 73 with 5 no results.

 

In the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in September this year no result was possible in the first match and India won the second game by all of 228 runs thanks to tons from Kohli and KL Rahul and a 5 wicket haul for Kuldeep Yadav.

 

In CWC 2019 (in England) India beat Pakistan by 89 runs.

 

 

The Betting

India are currently trading at around 9/20 to win the game and Pakistan can be backed at around 18/10

 

Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change

 

The Verdict

The only match staged at Ahmedabad so far saw New Zealand chase down England's 282/9 in just 36.2 overs and it looked a good deck.

 

I'm looking to the top bat markets for each side and the two I quite like at the prices and on form are KL Rahul for India and Rizwan for Pakistan.

Bets: Top India Run Scorer KL Rahul at 5/1 with Sportingbet

Top Pakistan Run Scorer Mohammad Rizwan at 5/1 with Sportingbet

Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change

 

 

 

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