Team India bowling coach Morne Morkel has confirmed that veteran all-rounder Hardik Pandya and youngster Abhishek Sharma suffered from cramps during the Asia Cup 2025 Super 4 match against Sri Lanka on Friday, September 26. However, India beat Sri Lanka in the Super Over in Dubai to maintain their unbeaten run in the tournament.

At a press conference following the thrilling India vs Sri Lanka contest in Dubai, Morkel said: “Both of them struggled with cramps. Hardik, I know, we will assess tonight and tomorrow morning and we’ll take a call on that. But, both of them were just down with cramps during the game. Abhishek is fine.”

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Although India are unbeaten in the Asia Cup 2025, their bowling has been put under pressure, especially in the first 10 overs as well. On Friday as well, Sri Lanka had reached 114-1 at the halfway stage of their innings as well. Morkel admitted that the fast bowlers have had their struggles since the ball comes onto the bat nicely as well.

“If you look at the trend of the tournament over here, it’s almost like after 10 overs the scoring rate slows down. The new ball is almost coming on nicely. The margin for error is quite small with the new ball. As a bowling attack, we want to go that aggressive route and get wickets. There hasn’t been a lot of swing upfront. Our mindset is to take as many wickets as we can in the powerplay. We know, in the middle period, our spinners are going to come into play,” Morne Morkel concluded.