‘Hellish’: What occurs when India beats Pakistan within the Cricket World Cup | ICC Cricket World Cup – Nirantara

It’s cricket’s fiercest rivalry, watched by plenty of of numerous, sparking raucous celebrations in victory and wild accusations in defeat, nonetheless every time India and Pakistan have clashed on the ICC Cricket World Cup, there was only one winner.

India have defeated Pakistan seven events out of seven on the occasion since they first met in Sydney in 1992, a run that Babar Azam’s aspect will hope to complete as shortly as they meet the hosts in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

Is it luck? Have India benefitted from worthwhile 5 of the seven tosses? Are Pakistan additional inclined to pressure?

“We carried out seven video video video video games and our neighbouring nation reminds us every second day regarding the 7-0,” Pakistan legend Wasim Akram acknowledged.

“Frankly speaking, I can’t single out one aim for the dropping streak.”

From Sydney to Manchester

Inzamam-ul-Haq, who ended up on the dropping aspect for Pakistan on 4 occasions, believes pressure has been an element.

“Presumably India handled the pressure elevated than us on the day of the match and worthwhile plenty of the tosses moreover gave them a bonus,” he acknowledged.

Even when Pakistan gained the toss twice, their luck didn’t change.

They’ve been outdone by Sachin Tendulkar’s brilliance contained within the chase at Centurion in South Africa in 2003 and by Rohit Sharma at Manchester in 2019 when India have been despatched in to bat.

The defeat on the 2019 occasion worth Sarfaraz Ahmed the captaincy.

As a consequence of a quirk of the having pleasing with format, Pakistan and India not at all met inside the first 4 World Cups.

Every have been favourites to fulfill inside the final word as shortly as they’ve been co-hosts in 1987, nonetheless each fell contained within the semis.

The first encounter occurred in 1992 at Sydney, a low-scoring affair that was remembered additional for Pakistan’s Javed Miandad leaping up and down in a bizarre try to mimic India wicketkeeper Kiran Further.

Pakistan didn’t chase a modest 217-run full, dropping by 43 runs.

Nonetheless, that defeat was shortly forgotten when Imran Khan’s employees staged a selected restoration to win their first and solely 50-over World Cup title.

‘It was hellish’

4 years later, Pakistan misplaced as shortly as additional by 39 runs in India’s yard in Bangalore.

The defeat resulted in a furious response as quickly as additional dwelling – skipper Wasim Akram was even alleged to have feigned injury.

“It was hellish,” remembers Akram. “No one digested that defeat and we wished to return dwelling beneath tight security and couldn’t exit of our homes for days.”

On the 1999 World Cup, Akram and his employees have been subjected to a match-fixing inquiry after they misplaced by 47 runs to India and slumped to a shock loss to Bangladesh.

They nonetheless managed to finish as runners-up.

Regardless of boasting an intimidating three-pronged tempo assault of Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan misplaced their 2003 World Cup encounter by six wickets.

A high-profile semifinal moreover went to India by 29 runs in Mohali in 2011, a match the place respective prime ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Yousuf Raza Gillani of Pakistan watched from the stands.

“To be reliable, I don’t know the rationale why we usually misplaced,” Shahid Afridi, the skipper in 2011, acknowledged.

“We carried out so appropriately to attain the semifinals and fell transient in Mohali. I moreover heard some silly components nonetheless it was a matter of respect and as captain I instructed my avid avid avid gamers to current their most fascinating.”

A packed dwelling in Adelaide seen Virat Kohli’s century subdue Pakistan by 76 runs contained within the 2015 World Cup.

Pakistan as shortly as as shortly as additional fell transient in 2019, as shortly as additional in Manchester, as they misplaced by 83 runs in a rain-hit sport.

So can it’s eighth time lucky for Pakistan as shortly as they renew their rivalry in Ahmedabad on Saturday at this World Cup?

“That jinx could be broken in some unspecified time eventually and this current Pakistan employees is ready to doing that,” acknowledged Akram.

“We broke the Twenty20 World Cup jinx after 5 defeats in 2021 in Dubai, so the 50-over jinx might go.”