This is the question rising in everyone’s mind, when Cricket World Cup 2011 is going on. Both the teams are meeting in semi final on March 30th for the first time after a long time and Pakistan is going to play in India after long 3 years, due to a ban on movement of Pakistanis in India after terrorist attack on Mumbai.
The question is simple, but no one can answer it till the last few minutes of the game, but still everyone in the subcontinent is excited, in fact in the whole cricket playing world. Fans in India and Pakistan takes it as a matter of pride of the nation, whereas people around the world do business on this day as any cricket match involving India and Pakistan is the most profitable match.
The passion which the people in subcontinent derive is from the overall love for the game cricket, and the history of four wars between India and Pakistan. This is the day when separatist and civilians in Pakistan and same in India gets united, Seeing their main rival on the screen.
Before the match, every discussion forum, every facebook page and facebook question is talking about this.
So, the answer of the question we have still not given that who will win. Here is what we found people discussing online and offline.
“India definitely will be the favourite for the semi-final match. If Pak bowlers bowl extremely well then Pak can beat India.” Says a Canadian on a forum.
A Palistani fan says. “Because our batsman will feast on their rubbish bowling and our bowlers are good enough to contain the Indian batting line-up.” He further added, “Our bowling has been on point, Younis averages a healthy amount against India, as does Misbah. Memories of Afridi’s brutal 45 ball ton, our spin bowling is better than theres.” Comparing present scenario with history, he said, “We tend to bring our A-game against India. History is against us when it comes to WC encounters, but in those encounters India was the underdog. We’re the underdog now, and that title really suits us.”
An English person says, “I think India are the favorites. Tendulkar will have another epic innings (like March 2003), and India’s batsmen may just be able to withstand Pakistan’s bowling lineup.Of course, Pakistan’s bowlers may also savage the Indian batsman and give them a low enough total for Pakistan to chase. But that is probably less likely.”
Ricky Ponting, Captain of Australia, which is out of the world cup forst time in past three sessions sue to a defeat against India in quarter final says, “Yes we lost to both India and Pakistan, but the quality of play shown by India was slightly better, I think Indians are still favourites.”
As India’s batting line is highly talented people advice to prefer chasing rather than setting up the target. But Seeing Pakistan’s bowling performance throughout the world cup, India should set target because while chasing they will have more pressure. India and Pakistan match is all about pressure. Comment if you don’t agree.
While Mohali pitch is expected to be prepared for spinners, Indians should play with two spinners. Strategy of both theam would be to get the top order batsmen out and set spinners on task. While Shahid Afridi of Pakistan has been very successful with his spin ball, Harbhajan Singh has not got that success till now. Let us also not forget Yuvraj, who has proven himself in this session both with bowling and batting.
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