Where: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
When: Wednesday Mar 30, 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT, 20:00 AEDT, 22:00 NZDT
ODI Head to Head: Played: 119, Wins: India 46, Pakistan 69, No Result: 4.
Last meeting: Jun 19, 2010 – Pakistan 267 (49.3 ov) mislaid to India 271-7 (49.5 ov) by 3 wickets.
World Cup Head to head: Played: 4, Wins: India 4, Pakistan 0
World Cup Last meeting: Mar 1, 2003, Pakistan 273-7 (50 ov) mislaid to India 276-4 (45.4 ov) by 6 wickets.
Selection Table:
Likely India team: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel.
The representation during Mohali is approaching to be a batsman’s paradise, definition Yusuf Pathan is approaching to get a curtsy forward of Ravichandran Ashwin, with Pathan’s intensity to set upon a large measure in a middle-to-lower sequence removing him over a line.
Likely Pakistan team: Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal.
The XI which pummeled a West Indies in a quarter-final should sojourn for a semi-final opposite their greatest rivals.
X-Factor:
India: Virender Sehwag – if India win a toss as well as bat, a diversion could be upon Sehwag’s grievous willow. If he’s out in a initial 3 overs, Pakistan have a chance. If he is not – game, set as well as compare India. A proven big-stage performer, Sehwag can not usually measure runs though leather belt a cover off a round to have batting simpler for a stars to come in during a back of him. Sehwag averages 40-plus in World Cup matches with a set upon rate of 104.95 – an meaningful statistic for a Pakistan set upon bowlers.
Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq – in 9 career one-day internationals opposite India, Misbah has done a measure of some-more than twenty upon each occasion, though has converted those starts in to only a single half-century. He would be wakeful a new thing large measure opposite their rivals would put which statistic to bed. The 36-year-old played only dual ODIs in 2010, though given his stop to a side has posted earnest numbers opposite their debate of New Zealand, World Cup warm-ups as well as organisation games. His final dual scores of 7 as well as 0 do not do his form as well as category justice, as well as design his gifted conduct to be spending a decent duration during a double if Pakistan have been to win a game.
Summary:
Expect a run fest during Mohali – as well as if which comes to fruition, India will win a game. But if Pakistan’s bowlers can set upon early opposite India’s class, afterwards it is an additional make a difference altogether.
Indian fans will be awaiting a large measure from any of Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gambhir, Singh, Dhoni or Kohli. Even Pathan can be approaching to broach an innings suggestive of his match-winning 123 off 96 balls opposite New Zealand in December.
Pakistan’s bowlers have a huge charge prior to them, though Gul, Riaz, Razzaq as well as Afridi have a intensity to shorten a energy attack in a Indian top-order.
India reason a mental corner streamer in to their fifth World Cup compare opposite their sub-continent neighbours, carrying won all 4 prior clashes.
Conversely, Pakistan have knocked about India a dual times these countries met upon this belligerent in a ODI format – once in 1999 as well as once in 2007 – with a many new tie saying Pakistan follow down India’s sum of 321 to win with a single round to spare.
Expect an additional high-scoring encounter, though India – spurred upon by a prejudiced throng – should have some-more batting abyss to win this.
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