Instead, it’s Pakistan who finds itself far better placed against a team it has failed to conquer across ten showdowns in the 50-over World Cup and the World T20 combined. Pakistan’s late arrival in India stemming and the subsequent switch of this mega clash to the City of Joy is no more than a distant memory now. Pakistan has embraced Kolkata as much as the Kolkatans have embraced the players, and in some ways, given that the team has been here for five days, it is almost as if it is Shahid Afridi’s men that are the home team. India’s immediate task is to extend its hegemony over Pakistan in World Cups if it is to keep itself in the hunt for a last-four place. It isn’t a task beyond MS Dhoni’s team, which sent Pakistan tumbling to 83 all out in admittedly vastly differing conditions in Mirpur last month – but for that, it must excise the potentially debilitating psychological after-effects of the Nagpur drubbing inflicted by New Zealand spin.
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Wednesday 23 March 2016
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Instead, it’s Pakistan who finds itself far better placed against a team it has failed to conquer across ten showdowns in the 50-over World Cup and the World T20 combined. Pakistan’s late arrival in India stemming and the subsequent switch of this mega clash to the City of Joy is no more than a distant memory now. Pakistan has embraced Kolkata as much as the Kolkatans have embraced the players, and in some ways, given that the team has been here for five days, it is almost as if it is Shahid Afridi’s men that are the home team. India’s immediate task is to extend its hegemony over Pakistan in World Cups if it is to keep itself in the hunt for a last-four place. It isn’t a task beyond MS Dhoni’s team, which sent Pakistan tumbling to 83 all out in admittedly vastly differing conditions in Mirpur last month – but for that, it must excise the potentially debilitating psychological after-effects of the Nagpur drubbing inflicted by New Zealand spin.
Instead, it’s Pakistan who finds itself far better placed against a team it has failed to conquer across ten showdowns in the 50-over World Cup and the World T20 combined. Pakistan’s late arrival in India stemming and the subsequent switch of this mega clash to the City of Joy is no more than a distant memory now. Pakistan has embraced Kolkata as much as the Kolkatans have embraced the players, and in some ways, given that the team has been here for five days, it is almost as if it is Shahid Afridi’s men that are the home team. India’s immediate task is to extend its hegemony over Pakistan in World Cups if it is to keep itself in the hunt for a last-four place. It isn’t a task beyond MS Dhoni’s team, which sent Pakistan tumbling to 83 all out in admittedly vastly differing conditions in Mirpur last month – but for that, it must excise the potentially debilitating psychological after-effects of the Nagpur drubbing inflicted by New Zealand spin.
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