Babar Azam (L) and Rohit Sharma© AFP
The on-field rivalry between India and Pakistan is taken into account to be one of many intense battles on this planet of cricket. The 2 groups haven’t performed a bilateral sequence in round a decade attributable to political tensions and in consequence, their matches in worldwide or continental competitions are a number of the most highly-anticipated encounters within the calendar. Final time when these two groups confronted one another was within the Cricket World Cup 2023 and India have been in a position to lengthen their unbeaten run in opposition to Pakistan within the event. Former India opener Gautam Gambhir believes that India are at the moment “far superior” compared to Pakistan and in consequence, the stability within the rivalry isn’t identical as earlier.
“Pakistan has dominated India lots of occasions. At the moment, when you see the extent of each groups, India is much superior to Pakistan in all three codecs. If Pakistan defeats India it is an upset, if India defeats Pakistan, it’s totally a lot given,” Gambhir mentioned on Star Sports activities.
India went unbeaten within the Cricket World Cup 2023 earlier than they have been ultimately defeated by Australia within the remaining. Gambhir mentioned that the rivalry between India and Australia has emerged as a high one within the current previous and he believes that it has even surpassed the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry.
“India and Australia, from a cricketing perspective, is a high rivalry. When you ask a cricket fan what’s the precise rivalry, they may also say India and Australia,” Gambhir added.
Gambhir is not any stranger to controversies. Gambhir is well-known for his fiery feedback and easy evaluation which typically results in conversations on social media.
Throughout a current Q&A session on X (previously Twitter), a fan ended up asking Gambhir why he makes such ‘controversial statements’. “Why you at all times give a lot controversial statements? #AskGG,” he posted. In response, Gambhir got here up together with his blunt type of answering.
“I say what I really feel. You must suppose who advantages from the controversies!,” he remarked.
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