Indo-Pak Champions Trophy 2025: Can India Pull this tricky chase on slow Dubai pitch against Pakistan?
The mother of all battles has already progressed between arch-nemesis India and Pakistan where these two gentle giants are rubbing shoulder against each other on this tricky Dubai Pitch.
Talking about the development, Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first against India, where they scored 52 runs at the loss of 2 wickets including one powerful throw from Axar Patel where he got Imam Ul Haq out.
Hardik Pandya repeating his dominance of 2023 ODI world cup by picking Babar Azam’s wicket.
Team India are certainly one of the powerful team to win this mega event but there lies two uncertainty for them which include- batting second on this tricky surface where anything above 250 would be good total to defend considering the firepower in Pakistan Pace attack which include the likes of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah who can dismantle any attack on their given day.
The other reason is using the same surface where the last India-Bangladesh match was played, where India chased down 228 runs total almost in 47th over of the game in case there is no dew and if Pakistan managed to score more than 250 runs it would get difficult for India to win this game.
The equation at the moment is certainly different for both teams which include- India would need to win this so that they can cement their place in the semifinal round whereas Pakistan needs to win this to stay alive in this tournament.
However, India’s Shubhman Gill who is in top notch form stated that ” India- Pakistan matches have long history and matches between these two arch rivals is always exciting. its always a perfect contest for cricket fans to witness that.
Gill added with no dew the chase is turning out to be tricky for sure, in that case any team chasing total in 2nd half need to learn the art of strike rotation in the middle.
Gill is the most in form batter in Indian Cricket team, it would be expected from him to play throughout 50 overs in order to chase down this total.
When it comes to overall ODI record between India and Pakistan in Champions Trophy 2025 can be categorically divided into numbers where Pakistan certainly have an edge over India.
Total number of matches played between India and Pakistan in ODI format:
Total Number of wins by Pakistan: 3
Total number of wins by India: 2
Last Match result: Pakistan beat India by 180 runs in 2017 Champions Trophy Final held in England.
The game between India and Pakistan, is not only played on the field but off the field too where pressure is constantly build from experts and fans so ironically playing in India-Pakistan matches you need heart of gold considering the pressure it surmount in the crunch phase of the game.
The reason why India and Pakistan always turns out to be high voltage match as they hardly play bilateral series post 2008, post 26/11 attack in Mumbai.
The only arena, where these two super power teams meet is in ICC events.
Even India and Pakistan didn’t play in Test series among each other so that makes even more exciting for cricket fans to witness this contest.
Overall Pakistan had an upper edge over India in ODI cricket considering they were powerhouse back in 80s and late 90s in which Men in Green have won 73 matches in comparison to India who scored 57 maches out of 133 matches they have played so far.
India have batters including the likes of- Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Kl Rahul & Harshit Rana can give tough time to Pakistan.
Eventually the team which handle pressure well and apply their skills will emerge as the winner of this contest.
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