Daniel Norcross

What has happened, first headline, is that India have won three out of three.

They're through to the next round, there was never any danger of that.

In all probability, Pakistan will be two if they win their last game against Namibia, which they surely will do.

If they don't, however, they will be behind the United States on net run rate.

And there's even a tiny sniff of possibility for the Netherlands if they could beat India, but that's not going to happen.

So there is something big on that game for Pakistan.

And I don't think anyone really considered that to be a dangerous fixture for Pakistan.

But after watching the way they played today, I was hugely disappointed.

I was hugely disappointed with how they bowled at Ishan Kishan.

They did drag it back in those middle overs with the ball, but then with the bat, how they found themselves 34 for 4, 13 for 3 in double quick time.

That did for their chase.

Chase, they needed to make it 176.

The highest chase it would have been in a World Cup match, T20 World Cup match between these two men's sides.

But nonetheless, it felt like a pretty limp performance.

That was Matthew Hayden talking to the player of the match, Ishan Kishan, and he really did bat better, Alex Hardy, than anybody else on show today.

I mean, his numbers are just head and shoulders above everybody else.

77 of 40 balls, 10 fours, three sixes.

There are only three further sixes in India's innings.

He managed to keep the strike, farm the strike, and you saw how hard it was for the likes of Tilak Varma, 25 off 24, Surya Kumar Yadav, the skipper, usually explosive, 32 off 29.

So it was a tricky pitch, wasn't it?