Jadeja"s beam from the deep

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India v Pakistan, Asia Cup, Mirpur February 27, 2016

Plays of the day from the Asia Cup match between India and Pakistan in Mirpur

Mohammad Amir was swinging the ball in, and the Indian batsmen out AFP

The out-of-control bat

India did not have to wait too long to remove Khurram Manzoor after he survived gloving Ashish Nehra to the wicketkeeper. In the sixth over, he was sold down the river by Shoaib Malik, who, after pushing the ball towards cover, took a few steps and suddenly said no. Manzoor, in his attempt to get back to the non-striker"s end, lost control of his bat and by the time Virat Kohli struck with the direct hit, Manzoor was trying to run back without the bat in his hand.

The beam from the deep

Ravindra Jadeja ran in from deep midwicket in the eighth over and with one swoop he collected the slowly-moving ball and rocketed it to MS Dhoni. The throw was so flat and accurate that the India captain just had to knock down the stumps. Shahid Afridi, who had made the mistake of trying for a second run against one of the quickest Indian fielders with his team in shambles already, was short by quite a distance despite the dive.

The late dip

Ajinkya Rahane, who replaced the injured opener Shikhar Dhawan, saw Rohit Sharma fall to a sharp Mohammad Amir inswinger. Rahane had a chance to get a boundary off the first ball he faced as it was a wide down the leg side. He may have rued missing that because the next one that came his way was another late-moving inswinger that trapped him right in front. He tried to play it on the leg side but Amir"s delivery did not swing so much that it would have alluded the umpire into thinking that it was going down leg. It moved just enough and late enough to give Pakistan a perfect start while defending just 83.

The last shot

Pakistan"s last shot at any chance to put India under more pressure was in Amir"s last over, only the seventh of the innings. But Kohli played out the over with efficiency. He struck him for two fours before keeping him at bay until the last ball, which was bowled at 141 kph. Kohli quietly played it towards point and India had averted their last threat.

The glove

Manzoor was on 10 when he tried to scoop Ashish Nehra. The ball took his glove on the way to Dhoni but the umpire Sharfuddoula did not agree with the long, vociferous and repeated appeals from the bowler. Replays revealed a thickish touch from Manzoor"s glove before it landed in the keeper"s gloves. Kohli expressed his anger but it wasn"t clear towards whom and later Dhoni spoke to Sharfuddoula though it wasn"t clear if he was talking about the touch of the glove or how he had taken the catch, or something else.

Mohammad Isam is ESPNcricinfo"s Bangladesh correspondent. @isam84

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