PAK vs INDIA T20 Worldcup

 

Pak vs India


First time playing a T20 match, I came face to face with a world of second chances that you don’t get often.


My experience of cricket had largely been limited to England’s IPL, Australia’s T20 tournaments, my first extended T20 match against hosts Bangladesh in 2017, and a short under 19 series against Sri Lanka. None of these had been with a lot of people in mind.

A person that hasn’t lived overseas can actually cause quite a lot of difficulty in knowing what to expect when they finally get to play against a team. The fact that I haven’t played the game at a higher level, but just a few times in my life probably has given me a bit of an edge that cricket fans usually don’t have when going into a completely new, foreign environment.




For the first two hours after taking the place of the coming favorite, you’re wondering where in your mind are the good cricketers? What’s different about a T20 game when played by the home side? When you play against a team that doesn’t have that “special ingredient”, the world of skills becomes quite intimidating. An important point that’s often missed by fans is that every team was tested against a highly competitive non-talent on their debut (international or domestic). I think that’s what is so appealing about the game.


You go through a mental preparation hell – you know this story, everyone knows this story – when you’re playing against your home team. The only problem is, in this scenario, you know that every other team in the world knows about your genius too. And so you’re up against a fantastic side and many a great player. You face three of them in the first match in question - MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, and Lasith Malinga. Before even stepping out to play, you are usually given a bit of a talking to by your opposition’s captain, or you’re asked a few questions about yourself – and mostly you’re talking to yourself, trying to get your bearings.


In fact, there was one good side in the UAE earlier this month, Pakistan. I think it was one of the best home teams in all of the cricket and the fact that they were the favorites and touring teams expected India to win, made me wonder why that was. Is it the fact they were under pressure to show their quality or something else? After all, a series of really good wins had prompted many fans and experts to believe that Pakistan was on course to take out any kind of a challenge and there’s nothing worse than playing favorites. If you’re not playing the top team in the world, why should that fear you?

I suppose, first of all, any team can win against any other – even a stronger team than they are at home. In fact, just for us cricket fans to get ahead of ourselves, every visiting team that is playing in an international format expects to go into the first match with the other team in front. The only two exceptions to this rule, right? In the last three times, Australia has been the only team that could have easily played first against Pakistan. Back to them…


What happened, in this case, was also motivated by the fact that these are two really good teams in a very good series. The problem was that India was so capable of winning a series of matches, against any team, that they just looked unstoppable and the Lahore guys gave them as much as they could take.




Pakistan had won the previous game by five wickets and had just reclaimed the wicket of MS Dhoni for a 45-run cost. Dhoni and Co had been dismissed for 184 all out, and first time out, Pakistan’s pace and spin were very much capable of causing chaos. But, after Suresh Raina’s 4th ball, Pakistan was all out for 89, giving India the winning margin of the match.


But India didn’t stop there. Their batting, and batting in general, was outstanding, and Dhoni and Kohli knew that. All those things would have affected the difference had it not been for the impact of an unbelievable bowler – Lasith Malinga. A bowler as unpredictable as you can imagine – Lasith Malinga! Coming from Sri Lanka, he would have preferred to spin the game on the Hobson Oval – ie the small strip we were set on! – and then mix it up with the pace of the pitch, something he would have never been able to do in England.


Was it the fact they had a sensational pair in Dhoni and Kohli, though? Or was it maybe India were playing in their home conditions against an Indian side that

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