Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:43 PM IST
Summary
The exciting match between India and Pakistan will begin on Sunday morning in the ICC Women’s World Cup. Taking the field against each other in the World Cup, both the teams will be seen opening their campaign in the tournament. Here the effort of both will have to win.
Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof and India captain Mithali Raj
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The exciting match between India and Pakistan will begin on Sunday morning in the ICC Women’s World Cup. Taking the field against each other in the World Cup, both the teams will be seen opening their campaign in the tournament. Here the effort of both will have to win. If you look at the statistics, India and Pakistan have clashed twice in the World Cup and both the times the Pakistan women’s team had to face India.
Apart from this, both the well-known rival teams have faced each other 10 times in ODIs and India has defeated Pakistan on every occasion. In nine of the last 10 ODIs, India have won under the captaincy of Mithali Raj. At the same time, there was victory in one ODI under the leadership of Jhulan Goswami. That is, this will be the 11th match between the two teams.
At the same time, there will be a third encounter between them in the World Cup. In the practice match of this World Cup, both the teams have come after winning their respective matches. According to the record, India has a record of 100% victory over Pakistan so far. In the ICC ODI rankings, India is at the fourth position and Pakistan is at the eighth position. The last clash between the two teams was in the 2017 World Cup, where India defeated Pakistan by 95 runs.
India is stronger because of Harmanpreet’s return to form
The good thing for India is that all its players are fit and in form before going against Pakistan. All good things have happened for India with vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur returning to form. He scored a century while playing at number four in the practice match. It is expected that she will play in the same sequence. On the other hand, Mandhana, making a spectacular comeback after a head injury, has decided to give the team a strong start by playing a half-century in the first warm-up match. The Indian team will expect these two players to maintain the same form against Pakistan as well.
India won 19 matches in five years, lost 21
India has won 19 out of 40 ODIs played since 2017 and lost 21. At the same time, India has played a total of 16 ODIs since the beginning of 2021, in which it has won only four. This could be a matter of concern.
Batting strong but bowling performance poor
India reached New Zealand a month before the start of the World Cup so that it can also monitor the performance of its players under the bilateral series there. In this series, India lost 1-4 to New Zealand. The batting side looked strong in the series, but the bowlers performed poorly. Even after scoring more than 270 in two matches, the bowlers could not secure that score and got defeated. However, in India’s World Cup match against Pakistan twice, the bowlers have done well to win. Still, India would not like to make any mistake about this.
Pakistan’s performance in ODIs
Pakistan has played a total of 34 ODIs since 2017, winning 11 and losing 21. In the 2009 World Cup, India defeated Pakistan by 10 wickets and in 2017 by 95 runs. In the 2009 World Cup, Pakistan’s lowest score was 57 runs all out.