Indian Cricket Team Updates

The Pakistan Cricket Board announced its 15-member squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 to be held in Australia and New Zealand. The squad contains two openers, four middle order batsmen, five pace bowlers, one spinner, two all-rounders and a wicket-keeper/batsman. Sohail Khan, the seamer, who last represented Pakistan in 2011, was included. Shoiab Maqsood, Rahat Ali and Ehsan Adil have all recovered from injuries and will feature in the squad. Pakistan fans will be delighted by the presence of Shahid Afridi who will play in a fifth ICC Cricket World Cup since his debut back in 1999. Pakistan Squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt) Ahmed Shehzad Younis Khan Nasir Jamshed Haris Sohail Sarfraz Ahmed Umar Akmal Sohaib Maqsood Shahid Afridi Yasir Shah Mohammad Irfan Rahat Ali Ehsan Adil Sohail Khan Wahab Riaz

This was the 11th time these two sides were meeting in the Asia Cup. The record now reads: India 5, Pakistan 5, No Result 1.    (Also Read:  Report: India vs Pakistan – Asia Cup 2014 ) This was the 10th encounter between these two sides in Bangladesh. India are still ahead with a 6-4 record. Mohammad Talha was making his ODI debut. He became the 197th player to represent Pakistan in ODIs – and the 16th to make his ODI debut against India (later in the game, he suffered the ignominy of becoming first Pakistani to get a duck against India in his debut game). Amit Mishra made yet another comeback to the Indian side. Interestingly, he had made his ODI debut way back in 2003, but has played only 22 games thus far. Rohit Sharma made his fourth 50 against Pakistan. Plus, his strike-rate in this match (96.55) is his highest against Pakistan in an innings. In fact, it was the fifth highest for Rohit in an innings where he’s scored 50 or more. Virat Kohli has now aggregated 266...