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PAK vs IND: Ravi Shastri believes India has the edge but Pakistan have narrowed the gap

PAK vs IND: Ravi Shastri believes India has the edge but Pakistan have narrowed the gap

Shastri believes India has a slight advantage over Pakistan in the Asia Cup match. He credits Pakistan’s improvement but highlights India’s strong lineup. He praises Babar Azam’s century-making ability. In their Asia Cup match against Pakistan on Saturday in Pallekele, Ravi Shastri thinks India just barely holds the advantage. On the eve of the match, … Read more

Asia Cup 2023: India vs Pakistan to Clash on 2nd September

Asia Cup 2023

Asia Cup will be jointly hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The tournament will be played by 6 teams. Pakistan-India match is scheduled to take place on September 2nd. The highly anticipated Pakistan-India match, which is in high demand, is scheduled to occur on September 2nd in Kandy. Lahore and Multan will host four matches, … Read more

Press Trust of India: ‘India could play its Asia Cup 2023 matches in UAE’

Press Trust of India: 'India could play its Asia Cup 2023 matches in UAE'

United Arab Emirates (UAE) may host India’s 2023 Asia Cup matches. There has been no official announcement from the Asian Cricket Council. Repeated statements from Jay Shah that India will not tour Pakistan. United Arab Emirates (UAE) may host India’s 2023 Asia Cup matches, according to Press Trust of India. The news follows a standoff … Read more

T20 World Cup is set to take place in America and West Indies

T20 World Cup 2024

Florida, Los Angeles, and Auckland have been shortlisted to host the event. Arch-rivals India and Pakistan are likely to play each other in Florida, USA. For the first time, America will host an ICC event. T20 World Cup: Arch-rivals India and Pakistan are likely to face off during the T20 World Cup in Florida, USA, … Read more

Sethi insisted ACC members for meeting regarding Asia Cup 2023

Sethi insisted ACC members for meeting regarding Asia Cup 2023

Sethi met with representatives of the Asian Cricket Council. India and Pakistan have not played each other on home soil since 2012. Jay Shah declared that India ‘can’t’ send team to Pakistan for tournament. Najam Sethi met with representatives of the Asian Cricket Council and urged them to hold a meeting as soon as possible … Read more

Pakistan and India will play in the first-ever Super Fix Championship Trophy tape-ball tournament

Pakistan and India will play in the first-ever Super Fix Championship Trophy tape-ball tournament

Pakistan and India will compete in the Super Fix Championship Trophy On November 19 and 20, respectively, the Sharjah Cricket Stadium will host the games between the two bitter rivals The winners of the Super Fix Championship Trophy will receive a magnificent AED20,000 (PKR1.2 million) Pakistan and India will compete in the Super Fix Championship … Read more

A heart attack kills an Indian guy as he watches the match between Pakistan and India

A heart attack kills an Indian guy as he watches the match between Pakistan and India

Indian man dies of heart attack while watching Pakistan versus India match According to the man’s relatives, he was a healthy man with no known medical issues. The game had its ups and downs. A guy in India’s Assam had a heart attack and died on Sunday while watching the thrilling cricket match between Pakistan … Read more

Pak vs India: Naseem Shah dismisses KL Rahul in 2nd over

Naseem Shah

Naseem Shah got the first wicket for Pakistan as he dismissed India’s opener KL Rahul dismissed for 4 in 8 balls. He chops on, India one down for 7. MELBOURNE: Pace ace Naseem Shah got the first wicket for Pakistan as he dismissed India’s opener, KL Rahul, for four runs at the opening match of … Read more

Pak vs India: Pakistan sets a 160-run goal chase to India

Pak vs India

Pakistan handed India a 160-run target thanks to Shan Masood (52) and Iftikhar Ahmed (51). Shaheen Shah Afridi, who managed to add 16 runs to Pakistan’s Total In the opening T20 World Cup game on Sunday, Pakistan handed India a 160-run target thanks to Shan Masood (52) and Iftikhar Ahmed (51). India grabbed charge after … Read more

India vs. Pakistan: “Mauka-Mauka” ads before T20 World Cup 2022

India vs. Pakistan

T20 World Cup 2022, India vs. Pakistan: Sunday’s Group 2 encounter between India and Pakistan is scheduled to take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), even if it means a rain-shortened game for the subcontinental rivalry on October 23. Here are some of the most memorable ads from the “Mauka Mauka” promotional campaign, which is now permanently archived in history.

Media Sources made standalone advertising for the India-Pakistan match during the 2015 World Cricket Cup. However, when the jingle “Mauka Mauka” became popular among supporters, it was used in a series of advertisements for all subsequent World Cup matches between the long-standing South Asian rivals.

Mauka Mauka 2015

The first ad depicts a teenage Pakistan cricket fan’s seemingly never-ending wait from March 1992 to the 2015 World Cup to explode the firecrackers he had stored in the expectation that Pakistan would defeat India in the 50-over World Cup. Over the years, all of India’s matches against Pakistan had ended in defeat – an agonising run of 5-0 in favour of the Blues until the 2011 World Cup. Out of annoyance, the fan, who is now married with a child, asks his son, “Kab phodenge yaar?”

Mauka Mauka 2016

The emotional Cricket fan could be seen making a video message begging former captain Shahid Afridi to bring the 2016 T20 World Cup home in the next ad. After all, Pakistan failed to win a single match against India in the flagship ICC competition.

India vs Pakistan 2019 World Cup ad

The subject for the highly anticipated game at the 12th Cricket World Cup was a change from the series of Mauka Mauka advertising and centred around Father’s Day — a great analogue for an India vs. Pakistan match because the two events coincided on June 16, 2019.

Mauka Mauka 2021

Mauka Mauka made a final appearance in a promo featuring the “friendly banter” between the Maukaman and Lovely Paaji, just before the T20 World Cup 2022. To establish each side’s dominance, the fans engage in a nicknaming contest.

No more Mauka Mauka ads for India vs Pakistan matches

India’s 10-wicket loss to Pakistan in their most recent T20 World Cup 2021 meeting has been cited as the reason marketers have discontinued the Mauka Mauka campaign, which primarily focused on the three-time ICC World Cup champions’ winning streak against their arch-rivals.

The India-Pakistan head-to-head record in the ICC T20 World Cup is presently 5-1.

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Pakistani team wears black armbands to support the flood victim

Pakistani Team

In today’s Asia Cup the Pakistani team enters the field wearing black armbands. The choice has been made in an effort to support Pakistan’s flood victims. In Pakistan, more than 33 million people have been impacted by the recent flooding. In today’s Asia Cup encounter at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium versus arch-rival India, the … Read more

‘We will beat India again in Melbourne’, says Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhter, a former Pakistani fast bowler, believes that Pakistan will win the match against India in the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, which will be hosted by Australia. The Rawalpindi Express, according to Indian media, predicts that Pakistan will defeat India once more in the World Cup. “We will beat India again in … Read more

‘India vs Pakistan is the biggest game’, says Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has compared the India-Pakistan clash with the Ashes. According to Vaughan, the India-Pakistan match is always the biggest cricket match. “I think, we being England and Australia ex-players, we all kind of think of the Ashes as the biggest game in world cricket, it’s not! India vs Pakistan is the biggest … Read more

‘We’re rivals on ground but brothers outside’, says Mohammad Rizwan

Mohammad Rizwan and Virat Kohli

Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan’s wicket-keeper batter, has stated that there are no off-field issues between India and Pakistan. Rizwan declared in an interview that we are ‘brothers’ off the field. “On the ground rivalry is something different and it is the beauty of cricket. But, we are all same outside the ground,” Mohammad Rizwan said. When … Read more

Proud to have made history against India: Pakistani captain Babar

Proud to have made history against India: Pakistani captain Babar

DUBAI, Oct 25, 2021 (AFP) – Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on Monday said he and his players were ‘proud’ to have made history by beating India for the first time in a World Cup match. Pakistan humiliated their arch-rivals romping to a ten-wicket victory in the Twenty20 World Cup in Dubai on Sunday, sparking starkly-contrasting reactions. … Read more

Afridi shines but Kohli guides India to 151-7 at T20 World Cup

Afridi shines but Kohli guides India to 151-7 at T20 World Cup

DUBAI, Oct 24, 2021 (AFP) – Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi took three wickets, including skipper Virat Kohli for 57, but India managed 151 for seven in their high-voltage Twenty20 World Cup clash on Sunday. Left-arm fast bowler Afridi returned figures of 3-31 after a lethal first spell to hurt India after they elected to field first … Read more

Pakistan opt to bowl against India in key T20 World Cup clash

Pakistan opt to bowl against India in key T20 World Cup clash

DUBAI, Oct 24, 2021 (AFP) – Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and elected to bowl first against India in a much-anticipated Super 12 clash of the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday. The 2009 champions are looking to break their World Cup jinx against fierce rivals India and Babar says they have come to Dubai … Read more

‘Cricket over my wife’: Fans ready for India-Pakistan clash

PAK vs IND

DUBAI, Oct 24, 2021 (AFP) – Thousands of fans arrived for the Twenty20 World Cup blockbuster between India and Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday with one supporter saying he chose “cricket over the wife” to watch the game. The arch-rivals clash in one of the biggest games of the tournament with an estimated global television audience of … Read more

T20 World Cup: ‘Cornered Tigers’ ready to roar again

T20 World Cup: ‘Cornered Tigers’ ready to roar again

Pakistan are not entering the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup with a favourite tag. Actually, if recent years’ performance is anything to go by, they are nowhere near being labelled as the favourites to lift the trophy. However, they are one side that no one dares to write off. The world is aware … Read more

ICC T20 World Cup: Babar’s Pakistan eye historic win against Kohli’s India

ICC T20 World Cup: Babar’s Pakistan eye historic win against Kohli’s India

Pakistan will face India in the fourth match of the Super 12s round of the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup 2021 in Dubai on Sunday. Ahead of the match, the Men-in-Green’s new batting consultant Mathew Hayden was quoted by ESPNCricinfo as saying: “Nothing else that I’ve ever seen throughout various elements of the … Read more

Gavaskar backs ‘well-balanced’ India to end world title drought

Gavaskar backs 'well-balanced' India to end world title drought

DUBAI, Oct 22, 2021 (AFP) – Batting great Sunil Gavaskar says India will be the team to beat in the Twenty20 World Cup with a “well-balanced” unit and mentor M.S. Dhoni’s experience. India, who clinched T20’s biggest prize in 2007 but have not won a world title since the 2013 Champions Trophy, begin their campaign against … Read more

Pak vs Ind: Virat Kohli shares his hilarious take on Sunday’s clash

Pak vs Ind: Kohli's hilarious response to the 'Big' Match on Sunday

Indian captain Virat Kohli shared his hilarious response to his team’s match against Pakistan in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Virat took to Instagram to share his feelings ahead of the match. “People: Big match on Sunday. You’re nervous, right?” wrote the Indian skipper. “Me: WROGN”   View this post on Instagram   A … Read more

Boycott calls add to India-Pakistan cricket tensions ahead of World Cup clash

Boycott calls add to India-Pakistan cricket tensions ahead of World Cup clash

DUBAI, Oct 20, 2021 (AFP) – Cricket tensions between India and Pakistan have been heightened by boycott calls in India ahead of their T20 World Cup clash on Sunday. A series of killings in the disputed Kashmir region has set off the anger, even though the Indian board has insisted the national team cannot withdraw from … Read more

Usman Khawaja discusses about Indo-Pak bilateral matches with ICC and CA

Usman Khawaja

Australian cricketer, Usman Khawaja said that he has discussed with the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Cricket Australia (CA) about the resumption of India and Pakistan bilateral matches. While talking on his YouTube channel, Usman said that he misses seeing India and Pakistan bilateral matches. Usman Khawaja said, “The thing I miss most about international … Read more

Ramiz Raja shares his views on Pakistan-India bilateral series

PCB took action after news broke in media 

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, Ramiz Raja, has specified that there are no chances of Pakistan and India resuming their bilateral cricket ties in the current circumstances. Ramiz said that the series between the Pakistan and India is not possible due to the political tensions, Pakistan has to focus on improving their domestic cricket without … Read more

Babar Azam talk about Pakistan-India Twenty20 World Cup

Babar Azam talk about Pakistan-India Twenty20 World Cup

Pakistan cricket team captain, Babar Azam said that India will be under pressure as compared to Pakistan during the mega event at the Twenty20 World Cup. The event is scheduled to take place on 24th October at the Dubai International Stadium. While speaking to reporters, Babar was keen on beating India in the group stage … Read more

Gautam Gambhir: important for India to play with Pakistan in early stages

Gautam Gambhir: important for India to play with Pakistan in early stages

Former India opener, Gautam Gambhir believed that playing against Pakistan in an early stage of the T20 World Cup will help the Indian team to focus on the remaining tournament.

The international body said on Tuesday, that India and Pakistan will play together in the ICC T20 World Cup on 24th October in a group-stage encounter.

Gautam said that it will help the Indian team as they can then focus on the remaining matches of the tournament. Speaking on a television show, Gautam emphasized the importance of India clashing with Pakistan in the initial stages of the game.

He said, “In 2007 as well, when we went on to win the World Cup, our first game was against Scotland, which was washed out, but then practically, our first game was against Pakistan. And that is exactly what I mentioned, it is important to play Pakistan in the early stages of the tournament because what happens is you don’t want to keep thinking about Pakistan you can finish it off initially and concentrate on the entire tournament, and it is exactly the same for the fans and the country as well.”

He added, “Irrespective of what the result is, I am really happy for both the countries that they are going to play against each other in the initial stages.”

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman will get in action from 17th October, with the final to be played in Dubai on 14th November.

The tournament will be started with the Round 1 Group B encounter between hosts Oman and Papua New Guinea on 17th October, with Scotland and Bangladesh, the other teams in Group B, clashing in the late afternoon match.

Sri Lanka, Ireland, Namibia, and Netherlands making up Group A will be in action in Abu Dhabi the next day, with Round 1 matches running till 22nd October. The top two teams of each group will move to the Super 12 stage of the game, beginning on 23rd October.

 

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