India-Pakistan no longer opposed: Suryakumar

On 18 April next year, it will be exactly 40 years since Javed Miandad’s bat. For a brief repetition, Pakistan required four runs from the final delivery of the Australia-Asia Cup final in Sharjah-a 50-over incident-Batting on Maverick Genius from Karachi, 110, submitted Chetan Sharma’s low full-toss in the stand above Deep Midwit and sealed the AUR Drametic One-Vick.

That unique moment of talent from Miandad assigned the Indian pacer to all for ignorance despite some later achievements in his career, at the age of 20. But more importantly, it went for the result of the psyche of the two teams for the next 15-year. Earlier, India was marginally forward in the head-to-head fight against the neighbor with eight wins and seven defeats in 16 Odis.

But in the humid air of Sharjah, the successor of Miandad gave rise to the period of prosperity for Pakistan. Since then, in 68 Odis by 2000, the Mercurial bunch maintained a 44 wins over India and a strangulation with just 21 defeats.

All this only has to highlight that the tables have turned well and actually in the last two decades. So much that India captain Suryakumar Yadav, after the six -wicket win over Pakistan in the Super Four Clash of the Asia Cup on Sunday, now has no rivalry. It is important to note in this context that even when Pakistan was superior in the 1990s, the competition in the ODI World Cup meetings was the lead in the competition due to India’s victory.

“According to me, if two teams play 15-20 matches and if [head-to-head] It is 7-7 or 8-7, then it is called rivalry and good cricket. But 13-0, 10-1 … I don’t know what the data are. But this is no longer a rivalry, “Suryakumar told the media, with a smile on his face.

The cold number testifies. Since India lost five wickets in the 2022 Asia Cup, it has won seven directly in two white balls formats. Out of 15 T20Is since the first encounter in 2007, India has won 12 while Pakistan is only three times. In ODIs, 29 wins in 51 matches since 2003, including the World Cup, increases the domination of men in blue.

Beyond data, the lack of personal match-up to increase enthusiasm is a worrying indicator of Pakistan’s talent drain. On Sunday, the men of Salman Aga made a better attempt than a week ago, with a total of 171 for five to give a chance to the Shaheen Afrid-Left attack.

But Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill, with an early stand of 105 runs, responded by removing the list of their breathtaking performances of shots to fake the target. Since another comfortable victory rained four and sixes from the bats of these best companions, it was difficult to avoid the notion that six Miadad’s six years ago were re -accused in history of history.