{"id":3440,"date":"2012-03-18T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T08:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2012-03-18T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T08:14:26","slug":"asia-cup-pakistan-to-bat-first-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup: Pakistan to bat first against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mirpur (Dhaka)<\/strong>: Pakistan\u2019s skipper Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the fifth match of the <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Asia+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Asia+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Asia Cup<\/a> at the Shere Bangla National Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India: <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Mahendra+Singh+Dhoni&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Mahendra+Singh+Dhoni&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Mahendra Singh Dhoni<\/a> (captain\/wicketkeeper), <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Virat+Kohli&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Virat+Kohli&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Virat Kohli<\/a>, <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Gautam+Gambhir&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Gautam+Gambhir&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Gautam Gambhir<\/a>, <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Sachin+Tendulkar&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Sachin+Tendulkar&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/a>, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ashok Dinda.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal (wicketkeeper), Hammad Azam, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Aizaz Cheema, Wahab Riaz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mirpur (Dhaka)<\/strong>: Pakistan\u2019s skipper Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the fifth match of the <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Asia+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Asia+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all#content\">Asia Cup<\/a> at the Shere Bangla National Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2234,693,556,542],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-asia-cup-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-virat-kohli"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asia Cup: Pakistan to bat first against India - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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