Pakistan captain Babar Azam trolled for 'Play confidentially' message to team for India match

Pakistan won the toss and opted to bowl first.

By Aditya Gajanan Kukalyekar verified

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Babar Azam. (Photo Source: Twitter)

India and Pakistan are currently facing for the second time in a week in the ongoing Asia Cup, this time in the Super Four round. While the Men in Blue won both their group stage matches beating Pakistan, in a thriller, and Hong Kong comfortably by 40 runs. With Round 1 going India's way, all the eyes were on the much-anticipated second encounter between the two teams.

While Rohit Sharma managed to win the all-important toss last week, Babar Azam was lucky this time around as he called correctly. There was no hesitation in him to bowl first at all in the pressure encounter. Having lost the previous face-off, the pressure is on the Men in Green this time around.

Expectedly, Ravi Shastri asked Babar about the message he gave to the boys ahead of the game against the arch-rivals. In response, the 27-year-old stated that he has told the players to play confidently in the game against India. "The message is to play confidentially," Babar said at the toss. For his response, Twitter is trolling him for using 'confidentially' word. Babar was supposed to say confidently it seems.

Pakistan make 1 change, India 3

Meanwhile, as far as the match is concerned, Pakistan had to make one forced change with an injury to Shahnawaz Dahani. He was replaced by Mohammad Hasnain. India, on the other hand, made three changes with Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda and Ravi Bishnoi at the expense of Ravindra Jadeja (injured), Dinesh Karthik and Avesh Khan (illness). 

"We would have bowled first, but now we need to play freely and assess a good score on this pitch. Momentum counts in this format, you've to be on the money from the start, not worry about external pressures. Injury is something we can't control, Jadeja has been ruled out and he's back home. It was a headache to select the playing XI - Hardik comes back. Deepak Hooda gets a game and so does Ravi Bishnoi," Rohit said at the toss.

However, it was Babar Azam who was at the receiving end for his 'play positively' message to his players ahead of the much-awaited encounter against India.

Here's how he was trolled:

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