India to Play Pakistan in Opening Game in Next 3 ICC Tournaments

2014 Under 19 World Cup

15th February at Dubai

2014 World T20

21st March at Dhaka

2015 World Cup

15th February at Adelaide

India are due to play Pakistan in their opening fixture at the next 3 ICC World events, being the Under 19 World Cup in the UAE, the World T20 in Bangladesh and the World Cup next February at Adelaide. In both the World Cup and Under-19 World Cup Pakistan will be locking horns with India with the men in blue starting their respective campaign as the defending champions of the title, both on the second day of the competition. Both the World Cup and Under-19 World Cup match will be contested on the 15th of February, a year exactly apart from each other. However, at the World T20 5th edition India and Pakistan will not only be playing each other in their opening game but also the opening fixture of the tournament when the supers 10s commence on March 21st, as was the case at the 2007 World T20 in South Africa. Pakistan have never beaten India at a World Cup or World T20. At the Youth World Cup, Pakistan lost the last encounter between the two sides by a narrow difference of 1 wicket during the quarter final of the 2012 event in Australia. It seems that after the Champions Trophy game between the two last June which was an inconsequential dead rubber with India already through and Pakistan eliminated days before the game had even got started, the ICC have perhaps tried to prevent the occurrence of such a scenario by ensuring there is an Indo-Pak clash in a global carnival as early as possible. 

Pakistan have lost their last six tournament fixtures against India:

2010 Asia Cup encounter
2011 World Cup Semi Final
2012 Asia Cup encounter
2012 ICC Under 19 World Cup Quarter Final
2012 ICC World T20 encounter
2013 ICC Champions Trophy encounter