The most-watched sport in the country, especially in India is cricket and when the tournaments like T20’s are on then it’s difficult to stop the fans against the biggest battle of all that is India against Pakistan. It’s the most viewed match for both countries. The match will be played tonight. Talking about the strategies performed by the captains is a whole and sole focus and teamwork. Virat Kohli is set to play with ease and focus on teamwork and not for rivalry; always keeping pressure and rotating the strikes and playing at ease as possible. Besides this, Pakistan captain Babar Azam says that it’s a tournament that is to play with intensity to win as it’s one of the biggest tournaments and can’t be taken lightly. Both mental physical strength is required to play any game and stay focused. The word from inside is this rivalry is in the air not in arms. It’s pure sport.
These games between these sides at the ICC tournament level have become engaging, high-quality cricket for the best part of the last decade. The contest has owed its jeopardy for the most part to the historical rivalry between the Indian and Pakistan camps – on and off the field – rather than to finely poised matches between two evenly matched sides. (Since the 2011 ODI World Cup semifinal, five World Cup games between these two sides have all produced comprehensive Indian wins, by eight wickets, seven wickets, 76 runs, six wickets, and 89 runs respectively).
Their T20 record against Pakistan reads seven wins in eight games. On paper, there’s little to worry them, and for all of the drama and theatre of an India-Pakistan fixture, no World Cup game has ever been quite as predictable as this.
After great in from both England and Australia in the warm-up games, the Virat Kohli-led Team India takes on arch-rivals Pakistan in their first game of the T20 World Cup (Super 12 stage) at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. Pakistan, on the other hand, defeated the West Indies in their first warm-up game before South Africa stunned them in a high-scoring game. Both teams seem to be prepared at this point. India won the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007 while Pakistan also lifted the trophy, two years later in England. India and Pakistan are ranked and second and third respectively in the T20I rankings. India has dominated Pakistan at ICC events and is also unbeaten in both 50-over and T20 World Cups against their neighbors. India has clashed with Pakistan 5 times in T20 World Cups, winning all 5 of them.
This is going to be an exciting match and all eyes will be on the screen.