The India and Pakistan match is too played on 23 October 2022 at 1:30 pm (IST) in the Melbourne cricket ground (MCG), Australia. This match is a group stage match. The match is the first match of both the teams in the ICC men’s twenty20 world cup (2022). Let’s see which team opens their account first in the points table. There is a historic rivalry between both teams. India won their first and only Twenty20 world cup by defeating Pakistan in the finals in the maiden edition of the T-20 world cup back in 2007.
Head to Head
A total of 6 matches has been played between India and Pakistan in the history of the T-20 World
cup. India won 4 out of six matches and one match was tied. India has only lost one match against the arch-rivals Pakistan in the history of the T-20 world cup which is in the 2021 world cup. India has shown dominance against Pakistan.
Squads:
India: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Virat Kohli, Axar Patel, Deepak Hooda, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Kartik(wk), Rishabh Pant(wk), Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Ravi Bishnoi, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Pakistan:
Asif Ali, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Shan Masood, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammed Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Mohammed
Haris(wk), Mohammed Rizwan(wk), Haris Rauf, Mohammed Hasnain, Mohammed Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir.
Players to watch out for:
Virat Kohli: No doubt Virat Kohli, the run machine will be one of the players to watch out for in the India vs Pakistan Clash. He has scored 406 runs against Pakistan at an average of 67.66 and a strike rate of 119.06.
Suryakumar Yadav: SKY will look to continue his form of a lifetime in this edition of the t-20 world cup.
Mohammed Shami: He has recently taken a hattrick against Australia in the practice match of the world cup.
Babar Azam: He will be one of the batsmen to watch as he is the fourth-highest run scorer in the T20I.
Weather Conditions:
The forecast predicts ‘high’ chances of rain on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia.
This is going to be a nail-biting match as both the teams will be confident to win and gain valuable points to qualify for the semi-finals and we have seen some close matches in the past.