India and Pakistan are facing each other in a mouth-watering clash in the T20 World Cup 2021 in Dubai. Both teams will try to kick off their campaign with a win.

Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bowl first. Pakistan left out Haider Ali from the 12 they announced on the eve of the match. On the other hand, India left Ishan Kishan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur and Rahul Chahar out for this game.

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When the game began, Indian Players took a knee and registered their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Yesterday, West Indies and England players also took a knee before the match kicked off.

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Respect, Team India. pic.twitter.com/Y4gzgmlNhn

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) October 24, 2021

Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul walked out to open the proceedings in Dubai. Shaheen Afridi had the bowl in his hand. He didn’t take long to separate the fearsome batting duo when he trapped Rohit Sharma in front of the wicket on the fourth ball of the over. It was dead plumb and Rohit didn’t even bother to take DRS.

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Shaheen Afridi returned to bowl the second over and dismissed KL Rahul with a peach of a delivery. Rahul edged the ball onto his stumps and got out cheaply. Afridi provided Pakistan with a perfect start.

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.

Pakistan (Playing XI): Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Asif Ali, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi.