India have now beaten Pakistan eight times in eight matches at the Men’s World Cup, equalling Pakistan’s 8-0 streak against Sri Lanka. Here are the eight encounters, ranked from the least exciting to the most.
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2019: India won by 89 runs (DLS)
Pakistan were virtually out of the match after Rohit Sharma (140 in 113 balls) was done with their bowling. After India made 336-5, Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam let the asking rate soar well past eight over the course of their 104-run stand. When it rained, Pakistan were 166-6 in 35 overs: it became a formality once it resumed.
2015: India won by 76 runs
Pakistan were in this for a while, at 102-2 in the 24th over after Virat Kohli’s 107 helped India post 300-7. Then they lost three wickets for one run in nine balls, and could never recover from there.
2023: India won by seven wickets with 117 balls to spare
Unlike the 2015 and 2019 World Cups, Pakistan were in control at 155-2 in the 30th over, with Babar and Mohammad Rizwan well set. Then they collapsed in spectacular fashion, for 191, before Rohit blazed away to a 63-ball 86 to set up the match.
1999: India won by 47 runs
The match was played in the backdrop of the Kargil War, and the impact spread to Old Trafford, where three spectators were arrested and one more ejected during the match. Pakistan reached 44-1 after India made 227-6 before the Karnataka trio of Javagal Srinath (3-37), Venkatesh Prasad (5-27), and Anil Kumble (2-43) bowled out Pakistan for 180.
1992: India won by 43 runs
The two teams met at the World Cup for the first time in 1992, a period when Pakistan dominated the ODI clashes between the two sides. After India made 216-7, Pakistan reached 105-2 before a teenage Sachin Tendulkar struck, and they crashed to 173. Tendulkar made an unbeaten 54 and claimed 1-37 to win the first of his three Player of the Match awards in these clashes.
1996: India won by 39 runs
Navjot Sidhu’s 93 and Ajay Jadeja’s violent assault against Waqar Younis at the death ruined Javed Miandad’s last international match after an injured Wasim Akram sat out. The match also features what is almost certainly the most-viewed moment of these clashes: Aamer Sohail hit a boundary and gestured at Prasad, the bowler, to fetch the ball; Prasad bowled him next ball and pointed towards the pavilion.
2011: India won by 29 runs
A scratchy 85 from Tendulkar (the Pakistan catching went haywire, and as Saeed Ajmal would claim, so did DRS) somehow kept India afloat after Wahab Riaz took 5-46. In a match played amidst tight security – national leaders from both countries were present – Pakistan reached 103-2, then 184-6, and would have made a closer match of it, had the Indian bowlers not struck at regular intervals. It was the first time exactly five bowlers bowled in an ODI and claimed two wickets apiece.
2003: India won by six wickets with 26 balls to spare
After Saeed Anwar’s majestic 101 took Pakistan to 273-7, Tendulkar took on Wasim and Shoaib Akhtar head-on before Waqar took two wickets with consecutive balls. Tendulkar’s 98 was one of his finest, but then he cramped up, needed a runner, and got out, leaving India at 177-4. The Pakistani fast bowlers went flat out, but Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh weathered all storms to see India through.
