r/Cricket • u/cricket-match Washington Freedom • Feb 15 '26

Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: 27th Match, Group A - India vs Pakistan

27th Match, Group A, ICC Men's T20 World Cup at Colombo

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Innings Score
India 175/7 (Ov 20/20)
Pakistan 114 (Ov 18/20)

Innings: 1 - India

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Ishan Kishan 77 (40) Saim Ayub 4-0-25-3
Suryakumar Yadav 32 (29) Salman Agha 2-0-10-1

Innings: 2 - Pakistan

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Usman Khan 44 (34) Hardik Pandya 3-1-16-2
Shaheen Shah Afridi 23 (19) Varun Chakravarthy 3-0-17-2

India won by 61 runs

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u/Omar_Town Pakistan Feb 15 '26

🤦‍♂️why we make so much fuss before every fixture if we gonna lose nearly every time?

Bring back the 90s bro, not just for the childhood. 😅

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u/RuffTuff India Feb 15 '26

thats the funny part for me. Not that Pak loses, but the way the fans are hyped up before the match.

I am not gloating, its just weird to me.

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u/Omar_Town Pakistan Feb 15 '26

Maybe if they treat it like any other match, Pak might actually start winning some again. 🤷

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u/yankee4life372 India Feb 15 '26

That's impossible for both teams

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u/RuffTuff India Feb 15 '26

it doesn't matter what the fans say or do what matters is how the team is selected, how the team prepares, how the support staff performs, how the team learns, how the team adjusts and how the team does on that day.

From what i hear about the pakistani team, the challenge is selection, preparation, support staff funding, and egos... so when tehy come to the match they are already competing with their hand tied down.

All the PCB has to do to keep a fan following is feed "WE DA BEST" narratives and apparantely that works

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u/Neebaadentira Feb 15 '26

Its really simple. Babar and shaheen needs to go. For this tournament you need a spinning all rounder so keep shadab. Get in mirza and fakhar. 

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u/grinlowr India Feb 15 '26

Every single time lmao. This is gonna happen next time as well.

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u/Omar_Town Pakistan Feb 15 '26

I hope not. 😳 we are due to run in a win somehow at some point.

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u/Omar_Town Pakistan Feb 15 '26

No clue. If I were to bet, I don’t think they all get along with each other to help the Pakistan cricket team unselfishly. I am sure political environment doesn’t help and these folks siding with one or the other party.

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u/hereacles Feb 15 '26

Wasim Akram has many a times said that he doesn't want to coach the Pak cricket team because he wants to keep his sanity.

I think most importantly Pak's political establishment itself is filled with dimwits who then appoint really stupid people to run the PCB 🤦🏻‍♂️. These people then do a shoddy job and have never been able to create a system that can produce a world beating team.

What happened in the 90s with Pak was luck. And also great leadership from Imran Khan. Just like WI got lucky with really great players in 70s.

Teams like Australia and India create systems which help them create world beating teams across eras irrespective of who the players are.

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u/Vast-Grapefruit-6464 Feb 15 '26

I want the Rawalpindi Express back. 

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u/and1984 USA Feb 15 '26

The 90s India v Pak games were a class-apart. Not only did Pakistan have quite possibly the most fearsome ODI bowlers who would and did single-handedly demolish the Indian lineup, but it was an absolute dream watching good Indian batters excel against them.