Delhi: Although it is very easy to say today that every moment of every cricket match between India and Pakistan is a controversy, but despite this thinking, there are some stories that change every India vs Pakistan. , Whose whole cricket world is waiting. The match from Colombo to Toronto, from Sharjah to Dhaka, anywhere, there is no shortage in thrill and controversy. 5 less such stories:
Today, India plays international cricket by forming a team of two different formats simultaneously, but it was not so till a few years ago. For the first time, India formed a team that played two different international plays at the same time due to conflict at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and the Sahara Cup tournament dates against Pakistan. The BCCI distributed both the top players into the team. Cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble and VVS Laxman went to Ajay Jadeja’s team to play in the Commonwealth Games while for Sahara Cup, Mohammad Azharuddin’s team had Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Jawagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad.
India contenders to win gold, when the BCCI got out of the event in the group stage, the BCCI did not play well in the Sahara Cup to help Sachin, Jadeja, Kumble and Robin Singh for the last two matches of Sahara Cup to help Team India. Decided to send Canada. Pakistan people were enraged at this. He said that there could be no change in the team without any reason in this tournament being played on the playing conditions of the World Cup. There was great debate and the atmosphere was very bad. Finally, there was an agreement that only Sachin and Jadeja would go to Canada.
Bengaluru Match (1996 World Cup) which was called ‘War’: The tension for this match was very big and both the teams. The media named it ‘war’ and provoked it. On that day, there was such silence in many cities of India and Pakistan as if curfew was imposed. The army was alerted in Bangalore for this match. In India, such tension in the atmosphere for any match, neither before nor there was ever seen.
Injamam does not like comments in Toronto: The match between the two teams is called the world’s largest match and the passion of the audience is responsible for this. Even if the match is in the neutral ground, it, the day of the match, divides the city into two parts. This story is of Inzamam -ul -Haq in Sahara Cup in Toronto in 1997. India won the first match of the cup and in the second match of September 14, when an Indian supporter was harassing Inzamam as ‘Aloo-Puil’, Inzamam entered the audience’s stand with bat in hand. Just then he controlled blood pressure. By the way, this was completely different mood outside the Inzamam Ground and in 2004 the Indian team was invited to dinner at their home in Multan. The cricketers of India remember what for the sake of the sake.
Bouncer War of Sahiwal Match: The third and last ODI of the 1978 series, which became historic at Zafar Ali Stadium in Sahiwal on 3 November as India left the match without playing in the middle. The reason was the accused of bias in umpiring and ‘help’ of the host team. 40 -over match, Pakistan scored a strong score of 205/7 (Asif Iqbal 62). In an attempt to win the series, Anshuman Gaikwad added 44 runs with Chetan Chauhan (23) and 119 runs with Surinder Amarnath (62). After the 37th over, the score was 183/2 and now 23 runs were needed off 18 balls to win. Sarfaraz Nawaz threw 4 such bouncers who were out of reach in the 38th over. Even then, umpires Javed Akhtar and Khizar Hayat did not give any ball wide. Now 23 runs were needed off 14 balls.
Captain Bishan Singh Bedi recalled his batsmen Gaikwad and Gundappa Vishwanath to protest against Pakistan’s policy and unilateral umpiring here and the result was that the match became Pakistan.
2017 Champions Trophy Final: The India-Pakistan final was one of the most exciting and unexpected matches. On 18 June 2017, Pakistan beat India by 180 runs at The Oval, London. The thrill on the ground is then drama and controversy outside the ground which added adventure. In fact, before the final, India dominated the event and also defeated Pakistan by 124 runs in the group round. On the other hand, Pakistan was considered a weak team but he played the finals and scored a score of 338/4 which led to a very big upset win.
This final was not just cricket, also surrounded by political tension between the two countries. At that time, not only the mutual political relations were almost broken, there was also a conflict on the LoC. There was a big demand in India not to play matches with them, when this event was reported to play in India, on the warning of some groups, Pakistan was thinking about not playing in the tournament due to security reasons. There was a discussion in the media that India could deny hosting Pakistan.
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