Icc Champion Trophy 2025: Babar Azam Falls Cheaply, Pakistan in Trouble

Icc Champion Trophy 2025: Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first in the ongoing match between India and Pakistan. However, this decision proved to be a flop. Because Pakistan’s batters proved to be more than tea and water in front of India’s bowling, the team’s top-order batters started returning to the pavilion one after the other.

Hardik Pandya showed the way to the pavilion to Babar Azam. When Babar Azam was playing after scoring 23 runs off 25 balls, then Pakistan’s most prominent batsman, Babar, got caught by KL Rahul standing behind the wicket while trying to cover Hardik’s drive length outswinger delivery. Immediately after this, Babar’s very disappointing reaction came out. Seeing that the hearts of Pakistani fans were broken, they looked very disappointed.

After Babar’s dismissal, Pakistan had high hopes from opener Imam-ul-Haq, who was included in place of Fakhar Zaman, that he would score well and strengthen Pakistan’s batting, but nothing like this happened. Imam played a light push stroke, and it went straight into the hands of Akshar Patel, standing nearby. Imam hurriedly ran to steal a run and even dived, but that dive was useless in front of Akshar Patel’s lightning speed. The ball Akshar threw hit the wicket directly, and Imam failed to reach his crease and was declared out; in this way, Pakistan lost both its wickets within the powerplay itself. However, captain Mohammad Rizwan and young batsman Saud Shakeel took control of the innings after this. By the halfway mark, Pakistan had crossed 100 runs.