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As the head-to-head record testifies, India has marched ahead in the past two decades. In 15 T20Is between these teams since the first in 2007, the current T20 World Cup champion has won 12. It has also emerged victorious in each of their last seven white-ball meetings. Pakistan, on the other hand, would prefer to emphasise on a 8-4 record in finals of white-ball tournaments.
Recent dominance manifested in Suryakumar Yadav’s assertion after India’s six-wicket win in the Super Four stage that this was no longer a rivalry. “According to me, if two teams play 15-20 matches and if [head-to-head] it is 7-7 or 8-7, then that is called a rivalry. But 13-0, 10-1… I don’t know what the stats are. But this is not a rivalry anymore,” Suryakumar declared.
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For Pakistan to prove otherwise, Salman Agha’s men will not just have to play out of their skin but also hope for India to be off-colour.
Pakistan coach Mike Hesson did take heart from his team being competitive in the Super Four defeat to India last weekend. But ultimately, even a target of 172 was chased down comfortably with seven balls to spare. Abhishek Sharma was the architect with the bat on that occasion, and will again hold the aces given his sublime form.
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The teams (from): India: Suryakumar Yadav (Capt.), Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.
Pakistan: Salman Agha (Capt.), Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Haris (wk), Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Faheem Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Wasim, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem.
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