NEW DELHI: If India had two leg-spinners - Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravi Bishnoi - in their ranks to stop Pakistan's top order from going for the big shots, the Men in Green made the most of a floating all-rounder - Mohammad Nawaz - to tackle the Indian leg-spinners.
Nawaz was sent out to bat at number 8 in the league stage match vs India in the ongoing Asia Cup, which India won. On that occasion he managed to score just 1 off 3 balls. On Sunday though, after Pakistan lost two if their best batters in captain Babar Azam (14) and Fakhar Zaman (15) and with the scoreboard reading 63 for 2 in 8.4 overs, Pakistan head coach Saqlain Mushtaq and skipper Babar decided to promote the hard-hitting Nawaz up the order. It was a gamble. And it paid off handsomely for Pakistan.
