DHAKA: Pakistan tasted a humiliating defeat when India won their first One-day International of the tri-nation cricket series by a convincing margin of 140 runs here Tuesday at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.Chasing a difficult target of 331 runs, Pakistan could score only 190 runs off 35.4 overs.
From the very beginning, they were in deep trouble losing three early wickets for only 26 runs on board.
However, opener Kamran Akmal (38) and Misbah-ul-Haq (24) made some recovery by adding 55 valuable runs for the fourth wicket but both were dismissed within a space of 13 runs.
Then, Shahid Afridi (23) and captain Shoaib Malik made 44 runs but after Afridi wickets began falling with regular intervals.
However, Malik played a responsible innings and top-scored with 53 runs - the only fifty of Pakistan innings.
Earlier, India captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first. His decision proved right as his batsmen hammered a mammoth total of 330 runs for eight wickets in the allotted 50 overs.
Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir played in Twenty20 style to set an opening stand of 155 runs off 21.3 overs.
However, they could not break the India’s record of the highest opening partnership of 159 against Pakistan set by Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar at Dhaka in1997-98.
Sehwag smashed 89 off 76 balls with 13 fours and one six while Gambhir made 62 off the same number of balls with six boundaries.
Later, Yuvraj Singh hit a 54-ball 55 with three sixes and three fours.
Fast-medium bowler Umer Gul captured three wickets while spinners Shahid Afridi and Wahab Riaz claimed two wickets each and Suhail Tanvir took one wicket.
All-rounder Yusuf Pathan made his debut for India.
The next match will be played between India and hosts Bangladesh on Thursday while
Pakistan already beat Bangladesh by 70 runs in the opening match on Sunday.
Geo Super is showing the matches of the triangular series live from Mirpur, Dhaka.
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