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Australia won by 5 wickets after bowling out Lanka for 209.
Though the performances of the home side gives cause for a good amount of cheer, it is too early to get into the celebratory mode as there are five more weeks to go before the final.
Mendis is among the tournament's top scorers with 198 runs in two games and his first match as captain will be Monday's clash with Australia who are also without a win in the group stage.
If his recovery is on schedule, the left-handed batter is set to fly out of Adelaide on Thursday and land in India a day later, with an eye on a return for Australia's group fixture against the Netherlands in New Delhi on Octber 25.
Cummins said playing a T20 game in India was very different from the One-Day International.
England crumbled to 215 all out in reply with Harry Brook the only batter to adapt to the conditions with a fighting 66 as spinners Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan took three wickets each.
'It didn't seem like an ICC event to be brutally honest,' the Pakistan team director said after his side's seven-wicket loss.
The ICC has approved Chamika Karunaratneas a replacement in the squad.
Hundreds of cricket enthusiasts, cutting across age groups, watched the much-awaited high-profile India-Pakistan match of the ICC Men’s World Cup at a PVR screen in Lulu Mall.
More than the Pakistan batters throwing their wickets away it was a case of some exceptional bowling by the Indians, especially Jasprit Bumrah.
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