Millions of cricket fans are desperately waiting for October 24th, because the Virat Kohli-led Team India will begin their ICC men’s T20 World Cup campaign with a heavyweight clash against Pakistan on the very day in Dubai. The cricket rivalry between the 2 nations goes above and beyond once it involves cricket in the World Cup, the frenzy is incomparable.
Ahead of the match, critics are deliberating on the probable playing XIs, winning likelihood, etc. Now, former Indian captain Kapil Dev also gave his valuable insight over matters.
Commenting on the match, Kapil said that players “get recognition” by doing well in India VS Pakistan matches. If a young person comes out and performs well, then he gets world recognition. “It all depends on pressure and pleasure. If you are enjoying the sport or are under pressure. If you are taking an excessive amount of pressure, then you may not get the required performance. The probabilities of winning the sport increase for the team which believes in having fun whereas playing in,” explained Kapil Dev as speaking in an exceedingly show on ABP TV.
He further added, “Players get recognition by doing well in India vs Pakistan matches. If a young person comes out and performs well, then he gets world recognition. Whereas, if a senior player doesn’t do their expected best, then it will hurt his name.”
The bilateral series between India and Pakistan has been suspended because of political reasons and previously, the arch-rivals met at the 2019 World Cup in England, where India won against Pakistan and maintained their undefeated record in World Cups.
Here’s India’s squad:
- Virat Kohli (c)
- Rohit Sharma (VC)
- KL Rahul
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Rishabh Pant
- Hardik Pandya
- R Ashwin
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Rahul Chahar
- Varun
- Muhammad Shami
- Shardul Thakur
- Jasprit Bumrah
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Ishan Kishan.
Standby players:
- Shreyas Iyer
- Deepak Chahar
- Axar Patel.
