Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and opted to bowl first against arch-rivals India in the second match of the 'Super 4' stage of the ongoing Asia Cup on Sunday in Dubai. India had defeated Pakistan in their group A encounter a week ago.
This highly anticipated match began with presenter and former India cricketer Ravi Shastri bungling up the coin toss call. Rohit Sharma had flipped the coin and Babar Azam shouted tails in the mic. However, Shastri misheard the call and announced that the Pakistan skipper had called heads.
This resulted in match-referee Andy Pycroft got confused as the coin landed, but later confirmed what Babar said before the Pakistan skipper had a customary chat with Shastri.
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"We will bowl first. The dew could be a factor, that's the reason we're bowling first. We had a lot of positives from the last match against India. The message is to play positively - one change for us with Hasnain coming in," he said.
Meanwhile, India brought in Hardik Pandya, who replaced Dinesh Karthik, Ravi Bishnoi who replaced Avesh Khan, and Deepak Hooda coming in for the injured Ravindra Jadeja.
Here is the video of Ravi Shastri’s blunder:
