India, on the other hand, looked clueless and it seemed that the team didn’t have a plan B in place. Particularly against Pakistan opener Sameer Minhas, who played a destructive knock of 172 runs off 113 balls.
He was ruthless right from the beginning, and that put pressure on India. Usman Khan and Ahmed Hussain supported him well for a while, scoring 35 and 56 runs, respectively. The remaining six batters scored a cumulative total of only 53 runs. That highlights the impact Sameer had in the match, as his blistering hundred helped the team post 347 runs on the board in the first innings, which, in many ways, cemented the fate of the match.
