India, Sept. 22 -- India's second comprehensive and comfortable victory over Pakistan in this year's Asia Cup has brought into sharp focus how far apart the two teams remain in terms of the quality they have on offer. India took control of their chase in the Super 4 match in Dubai despite a strong batting performance, with Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma's 105-run partnership taking control and making the result an inevitability.

India's opening batters found it supremely easy in the powerplay overs against Pakistan's seamers, taking them for plenty of runs and showing far more comfort than their predecessors in the infamous losses of the World Cup 2021 and Asia Cup 2022. While India's top order collapsed against the likes of Shaheen Af...