Asia Cup, 2018: Three reasons why India beat Pakistan

#2 Lack of maturity from the Pakistan batsmen

Imam-ul-Haq gave away his wicket cheaply

If one has a look at Pakistan's innings closely, they would know how cheaply most of the top order batsmen gave away their wickets. Let's start off with the half-centurion from the previous game, Imam-ul-Haq.

Pakistan had got off to a cautious start. Instead of seeing off the shine of the new ball and building an innings from there, he tried to go downtown and smash Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Unfortunately, he edged it to MS Dhoni.

Apart from Shoaib Malik - who was run out, and Babar Azam - who was dismissed by a beauty from Kuldeep Yadav, all the other top and middle order batsmen threw their precious wickets away. While Fakhar Zaman tried to break his duck by skying one over mid-wicket, captain Sarfraz Ahmed attempted a huge one when his side were in desperate need of a partnership.

The likes of Asif Ali and Shadab Khan departed rather easily too. The former edged a wide of off stump ball to Dhoni. Khan on the other hand, was stumped.