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Asia Cup 2023 has started and the most important match of this tournament is going to take place on 2nd September. Let us tell you that Team India will face the Pakistan team in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Who has played his first match? The Pakistani team, captained by Babar Azam, made a strong start by defeating Nepal badly in the very first match of the tournament on Wednesday, 30 August. Pakistan won this match by 238 runs. Which is enough to show his dominance. Despite this victory, a weakness of Pakistan has come to light which will benefit the Indian team because here two Pakistani players can be seen helping Team India.

Let us tell you that in the first match of the Asia Cup against Nepal in Multan, the Pakistan team scored 342 runs while batting first. Captain Babar Azam scored 151 runs and Iftikhar Ahmed scored 109 runs for the team. Big scores like these, followed by huge wins, usually hide a team's shortcomings. But this is not so in the case of Pakistan and the reason for this is that its weakness has been continuously flourishing for some time. The weakness is the consistent failure of the opening pair.

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* Fakhar's flop show continues:

Let us tell you that when Pakistan decided to bat first against a weak team like Nepal, it seemed that this team was going to make a big score and only the opener of the team would rain runs in it. The expectation was the same from experienced and long innings batsmen like Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman. In such a situation, Pakistan made a big score but the contribution of the openers was negligible. Because both the openers returned to the pavilion in just 5 balls between the sixth and seventh overs and at that time the team's score was only 25 runs.

In this too, the biggest tension for Pakistan is the form of Fakhar Zaman. You are coming from whose bat there are no runs. The explosive left-handed batsman scored only 14 runs and was caught by the wicketkeeper. Let us tell you that this bad phase of Phakar has been going on for the last six months. At the beginning of this year, he had scored 300 consecutively but since then he has been flopping badly in seven consecutive innings. Not even a single half-century has been scored and this is the reason why Pakistan has not been able to get a good start from the openers in the last ODI matches.

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* Imam also has a big weakness:

Apart from this, there is another and his partner Imam, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only five runs in this match. Please tell that Imam-ul-Haq was run out, which is one of his biggest weaknesses. He either gets run out himself or gets his partner run out due to bad calls and India can definitely take advantage of this with strong fielding. However, in the case of Rollo, Pakistan has not had any problems from the Imam's side. The 27-year-old opener has scored runs consistently and despite the failure against Nepal, the Pakistan team will have high hopes of scoring runs with the bat.