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The Mahamukabala of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played between India and Pakistan today. The match will start from 2:30 pm at Dubai International Stadium.
Both teams now face each other in the ICC and ACC tournaments. In such a situation, teams will be face to face after 259 days. The last time on 9 June 2024 was encountered during the T20 World Cup.
At the same time, the two were last collided during the ODI World Cup on 14 October 2023 in ODI format. India won both matches.
India is not going to Pakistan since terrorist attack in Mumbai The Indian team has not visited Pakistan since 2007-08. After the terrorist attack on Mumbai in 2008, the Indian government refused to play cricket in Pakistan. Since then both teams play in the ICC and ACC tournament.
Since 2013, both teams have played 11 ODIs and 8 T20 matches. The Sri Lanka team has also been attacked in Pakistan during 2009.
India’s upper hand in ICC events India has dominated Pakistan in ICC tournaments. Despite the three decades of matches in the ODI World Cup, Pakistan has not yet defeated India.
India is also leading in the T20 World Cup, in which the team has won 7 out of eight matches. India won the most memorable victory in 2007, when the team won the title by defeating Pakistan in the final.
However, the story of the Champions Trophy has been slightly different, in which Pakistan has won three of their five matches. It also includes his excellent victory in the 2017 finals.
Pakistan team came to India for ODI World Cup Pakistan’s team came to India to play ODI World Cup in 2023. The match was then played between India and Pakistan in Ahmedabad on 14 October. The match was won by the Indian team by 7 wickets.
Captains Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer smashed Fifty. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs. In this match, both teams were last face to face in ODI format.
- Team India went to Pakistan for the last time in 2008: Team India last visited Pakistan in 2008. The 3-Test series was won by the Indian team 1-0. There were 2 matches of this series.
- Pakistan came to India to play bilateral series in 2013: Pakistan had a last tour of India in 2012-13. 3 ODIs and 2 T20 matches were played on that tour. The ODI series was won by Pakistan 2–1, while the T20 series was on 1-1.
Hype is made in ICC tournament due to not having a bilateral series India-Pakistan matches in the ICC tournament have been held since 1992. But, the ICC has started holding an Indo-Pak match in every tournament with the 2013 ODI.
Behind this, there is a big role of poor relations between the two countries. The bilateral series between the two countries stopped organizing a bilateral series between the two countries since 2013. Now matches are possible in the ICC tournament itself.
The ICC took advantage of this. The ICC also accepts this matter. Whenever Indo-Pak matches were held in the ICC tournament before the 2013 Champions Trophy, the role of coincidence was large.
It clashed in ODIs and T20 World Cup 7 times. Of these, both of them were faced in a knockout round or second round. Only once, the 2007 T20 World Cup was competed in the group stage.
The teams were then based on the grouping ranking and incidentally India-Pakistan came in a group.
After the closure of the bilateral series between the two since 2013, the ICC decided that now there will be a match in India-Pakistan in every tournament to take advantage of the hype.
See the top players of India-Pakistan in graphic below …
Pakistan defeated India by 180 runs in the 2017 Champions Trophy final The Champions Trophy is being held after 8 years. India and Pakistan had a match in the final of the last Champions Trophy in 2017.
The Indian team had to face defeat against Pakistan by a big margin of 180 runs. In the match played at The Oval, London, India won the toss and decided to bowl first.
Pakistan scored 338 runs for 4 wickets in 50 overs. The Indian innings in response was reduced to 158 runs in 30.3 overs.
In this match, Fakhar Zaman scored 114 runs on 106 balls for Pakistan. He was adjudged Player of the Match. However, Zaman has been out of the tournament against New Zealand in the first match.
This photo of Pakistan team is from 2017, when the team won the Champions Trophy title.
The last time was faced in T20 World Cup The last time the India-Pakistan team was the T20 World Cup 2024. India won by 6 runs against Pakistan at Nasau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
Pakistan won the toss and called the Indian team to bat first. India scored 119/10 in 19 overs on the basis of Rishabh Pant’s innings of 42 runs.
In response, Pakistan could score 113 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 7 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match.