Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi walk out to open the batting for India. Daniyal takes the new ball for Pakistan, Tripathi on strikem first ball, no time to settle aaannnnnd oooooh Tripathi goes for the big heave across the line, gets beaten by the slower ball.
MAKE THE FOUR NEXT BALL! TRIPATHI STEPS OUT THE CREASE AND DRILLS THE HALF-VOLLEY THROUGH COVERS! FIRST RUNS ON THE BOARD FOR THE MEN IN BLUE!
Daniyal follows it up with a wide outside off. Daniyal continues to use the pace off delivery, Tripathi pulls to find one of the six fielders in the outfield for a single. Nitish Rana on strike, is welcomed by a bouncer, he ducks but doesn’t get the wide signal from the umpire he was looking for.
Fairly decent start by Pakistan. Rana now goes for the pull, gets no timing on the half-tracker, ball falls just short of the fielder at long on. Seven runs of the first over, can Tripathi finish on a high! Yes he can! Executes the short arm jab to perfection for FOUR!