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India Vs Pakistan: ODI Cricket World Cup's Greatest Rivalry In Seven Parts - A Look Back

The idiosyncrasies do not get a clearer reflection anywhere else than in the 50-over World Cup, where India enjoys a 7-0 edge over Pakistan in the ODI World Cup.바카라 웹사이트

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The cricketing relationship between India and Pakistan is, perhaps, the most bizarre in the long history of the sport.바카라 웹사이트(Schedule바카라 웹사이트|바카라 웹사이트Full Coverage)

At once, it is a force of unity and a sharp-edged exclusionary tool between the two nations, which are madly in love with cricket.바카라 웹사이트

Those idiosyncrasies do not get a clearer reflection anywhere else than in the 50-over World Cup, where India enjoys a 7-0 edge over Pakistan in the ODI World Cup.바카라 웹사이트

But on the grandest stage where India and Pakistan, not just cricketers but fans too, strive to outdo each other, the moments carry as much importance as the numbers.바카라 웹사이트

The cricket rivalry between the neighbours started in 1952 when Abdul Kardar-led Pakistan stepped onto Indian soil for a five-match Test series, but their more storied World Cup battles have a relatively recent birth in 1992.바카라 웹사이트

India took on Pakistan in the fabled Sydney Cricket Ground and emerged a 43-run winner. A precociously talented 19-year-old Sachin Tendulkar made a 54 off 62 balls, a precursor to his many knocks that would hurt Pakistan in the future in the World Cup and elsewhere.바카라 웹사이트

India made 216 for 7 and then bundled out the opposition for 173 in 48.1 overs, with Kapil Dev, J Srinath and Manoj Prabhakar taking two wickets each.바카라 웹사이트

But the irrepressible Javed Miandad gave the moment of the match when he aped Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More, jumping up and down.바카라 웹사이트

Four years down the line, Pakistan started the quarterfinals in Bengaluru on the backfoot in the absence of injured Wasim Akram, which later mothballed into allegations of a more serious nature.바카라 웹사이트

After Navjot Singh Sidhu라이브 바카라 93, India found late wind through Ajay Jadeja라이브 바카라 blitz against Waqar Younis and the hosts posted 287 for 8.바카라 웹사이트

Pacer Venkatesh Prasad produced a moment during Pakistan라이브 바카라 chase that now occupies a prime place in the World Cup Hall of Fame.바카라 웹사이트

Aamir Sohail bludgeoned a boundary through the covers, and the Pakistan opener rather impudently gestured to Prasad indicating more punishment.바카라 웹사이트

But Prasad rattled the stumps in the very next ball to give a ferocious send-off to Sohail. From that point, Pakistan could not get going and were restricted to 248 for 9.바카라 웹사이트

Much later, a question was posed to Prasad as to what he had told Sohail on that heated Bengaluru evening. He chuckled merrily before giving a cheeky reply: ‘You can’t print that.”바카라 웹사이트

Emotions of a different kind enveloped both nations when they faced off in Manchester in 1999. The match happened behind the looming shadow of the Kargil War.바카라 웹사이트

The Indian and Pakistani fans did not want to settle for anything else than a victory. But the players from either side did not succumb to the fervent nationalistic mood and produced an uneventful game of cricket.바카라 웹사이트

After the fifties by Rahul Dravid and Mohammed Azharuddin guided India to 227 for 6, Prasad once again emerged as the star performer for India.바카라 웹사이트

The Karnataka man took 5 for 27 to wreck Pakistan innings which eventually ended at 180 in 45.3 overs. There was no single fifty in their essay.바카라 웹사이트

By the time the 2003 World Cup arrived, Tendulkar라이브 바카라 genius was in full bloom. He did not make much of an impact in the 1996 and 1999 events.바카라 웹사이트

But at Centurion, the Mumbaikar waded into Pakistan pace trio of Akram, Shoaib Akhtar and Younis with a legion of sparkling shots – none brighter in memory than that upper cut-off Akhtar which sailed for a six over third man.바카라 웹사이트

Tendulkar would have been out on 32 but Abdul Razzaq was woefully out of position to snatch an aerial offering by the master batter.바카라 웹사이트

It also prompted Akram to ask that now-famous question Razzaq: ‘Tujhe pata hein kiska catch choda hein’ (Do you know whose catch you dropped?).바카라 웹사이트

Saeed Anwar had made a creamy 101 in Pakistan라이브 바카라 273 for 7, but Tendulkar라이브 바카라 98 off 75 balls overshadowed that comfortably. Yuvraj Singh also chipped with an unbeaten 50 in India라이브 바카라 six-wicket win.

The two protagonists did not meet each other in the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies, crashing out in the league stage itself.바카라 웹사이트

In 2011, the stakes were at their peak for India in the semifinal at Mohali. Tendulkar, who else that could be, produced another fine innings but a vastly different one from his ebullient gem from eight years ago.바카라 웹사이트

Tendulkar had passed his prime then, but playing in his last World Cup, the maestro scratched around to make a mind-over-body 85, in which he was dropped four times.바카라 웹사이트

Despite left-arm pacer Wahab Riaz라이브 바카라 5 for 46, India made 260 for 9, and then five Indian bowlers plucked two wickets apiece to bowl out Pakistan to 231.바카라 웹사이트

Yuvraj라이브 바카라 peach of deliveries to dismiss Younis Khan and Asad Shafique deserves a special mention as well.바카라 웹사이트

By the beginning of this decade, India라이브 바카라 dominance on a cricket field has touched new heights with the rise of players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and a fiery pack of pace bowlers, once the fiefdom of their arch-rivals.바카라 웹사이트

Pakistan라이브 바카라 got a taste of the ‘new’ India in the 2015 World Cup. Kohli라이브 바카라 crafty 107 and fifties by Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina propelled the Men in Blue to 300 for 7.바카라 웹사이트

Pacer Shami took four wickets as Pakistan walked on fragile stilts and got bundled out for 224.바카라 웹사이트

In 2019, Pakistan were up against Rohit who was in beast mode during his 113-ball 140. The Green Brigade also had to face the fury of Kohli (77) and KL Rahul (57). 바카라 웹사이트

Rohit took a special liking for pacer Hasan Ali, who had invited sharp criticism for his land-thumping celebrations near the Wagah border.바카라 웹사이트

Indian fans went into delirium as Rohit poleaxed Ali with some blistering shots.바카라 웹사이트

It was a microcosm of the cricketing rivalry between India and Pakistan – deeply entwined in history, culture, geopolitics, pervading toxicity and occasional camaraderie – to be renewed on Saturday at Ahmedabad.

Will India extend their run to make it 8-0? Or will Pakistan be able to snap the streak? Let's wait to see.

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