India Continue Dominance Over Pakistan

On the day where India beat Pakistan yet again in an ICC event and on the day which next year sees the mammoth neighbourhood clash at the World Cup prompts me to touch on the following issues:

There are 5 consistently held global cricketing events nowadays:

ICC World Cup

ICC World T20

ICC Champions Trophy (restored again)

ICC U-19 World Cup

Asia Cup

Pakistan has historically beaten India more times in head to heads in Tests and ODIs. Bilaterally they have a stronger record, even winning the last one day series between the two 14 months ago in the resumption of ties. However, Pakistan have never beaten India at a World Cup or World T20, with India having an 8-0 aggregate across the two. Currently Pakistan, have lost their last 7 tournament games against India when they have played each other after a time gap in one offs, where the cricketing world comes together with several teams competing across different days. 

Below are the defeats:

19^th June 2010 – Asia Cup in Sri Lanka

30^th March 2011 – World Cup in India

18^th March 2012 – Asia Cup in Bangladesh

20^th August 2012 – ICC Under 19 World Cup in Australia

30^th September – ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka

15 June 2013 – ICC Champions Trophy in England

15^th February 2014 – ICC Under 19 World Cup in UAE

(not including Under-19 Asia Cup final 2014, was not on TV etc)

It’s becoming an all too familiar sight and a slightly embarrassing state of affairs. They did beat India in a TV warm up match at the ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka as a very minor consolation. But when it really matters, they have come unstuck. As many as seven consecutive tournament defeats speak for itself. There have been some very one sided games in those seven defeats with the team simply failing to turn up in metaphorical terms. Nonetheless, India have been the standout tournament team over the years and therefore these defeats are respectable from this point of view. They have relished the big stage. They are holders of the treble with the World Cup, World Cup u19 and Champions Trophy as well as being a recent winner of the Asia Cup in 2010 and one of the past 4 winners of the World T20. In many of the meetings therefore in the above illustrated evidence, India have gone on to win the championship.

Talking of Pakistan and India:

Never played each other in a World Cup final

Never played each other in a Champions Trophy final

Never played each other in an Asia Cup final

Played each other once in Under 19 World Cup final (Pakistan won)

Played each other once in World T20 final (India won)

Worth mentioning that next year India-Pakistan World Cup game will be the first between the two sides in an opening match for each side in a World Cup and the first time Pakistan will be playing them in a World Cup when they are defending champions. It will be Pakistan's second successive match against India in a World Cup after Mohali which was one of the biggest sporting events ever witnessed. Funnily, the ICC like scheduling India-Pakistan clashes on the 15th in an ICC ODI championship.

15th June 2013 - CT13
15th Feb 2014 - U19CWC14
15th Feb 2015 - CWC15