AHMEDABAD Oct 11 (Online): ICC World Cup 2023 will be the biggest match so far between arch rivals Pakistan and India today (Saturday).
The two teams will face each other in a high-voltage match today at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, which has a capacity of 132,000 spectators.
According to Pakistani time, this match will start at 1:30 PM.
Strict security arrangements have been made for the India-Pakistan match.
According to Ahmedabad police, 11 thousand police officers will be deployed.
Special drones will be flown around the stadium. The drones will monitor the 5 km area around the stadium.
According to media reports, all the tickets for the match have been sold. Many times more money is being demanded for selling tickets in Black.
Indian media reported that cricket fans can also buy special train tickets online, special prices have also been kept for special train tickets. Fans are eager to watch the match, even after booking hotels in Ahmedabad city, people have booked beds in the city’s hospitals.
A day before the match, hospitals near the cricket stadium in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad has seen an increase in the number of patients arriving for medical checkups who will spend the night.
Several doctors told local media that the check-up packages in hospitals are cheap, while the hotel fares have increased manifold before the match.
Meanwhile, Western Railway has decided to run a special train for the Pakistan-India match.
According to Indian media, a super fast special train will be run from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. The special train will depart from Mumbai for Ahmedabad.
Indian media said the special train will take the cricket fans from Ahmedabad back to Mumbai on Sunday.
While before the important match between Pakistan and India, the reactions of the players of both teams also came to light.
The official broadcaster of the World Cup between arch-rivals Pakistan and India shared a video of the reactions of the players of both the teams, which is getting a lot of response on social media.
Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, KL Rahul and Iftikhar Ahmed can be seen expressing their views in the video.
Pakistani players are determined to surprise their fans around the world including the spectators by defeating India in the World Cup competition at home ground.
On the other hand, there are chances of rain in the main match of the mega event, but it will not disturb the match, Ahmedabad city is expected to have a maximum temperature of 35 degrees Celsius and a minimum temperature of 21 degrees. While there is a 35 percent chance of rain in the match between the two teams.
National team captain Babar Azam has said that the match between Pakistan and India is challenging, toss will play a very important role in the match and due to dew at night, batting becomes easier in floodlights. ,
We are not under any pressure to play in front of a big crowd in Ahmedabad as we have played in front of big crowds many times before.
Only the Indian team will have supporters in Ahmedabad but if Pakistani fans are also allowed to watch the match, it would be good for us.
He expressed these views while holding a press conference in Ahmedabad a day before the India-Pakistan match in the World Cup.
Babar Azam said that when we landed in Hyderabad, I felt there was enough support for Pakistan and I hope the spectators will support us in this match as well.
He said that there are a lot of big scores and if you bowl off the stumps, the margin of error for the bowlers is very less, so he has asked his bowlers to bowl at the right length and in the wickets.
He was asked which bowlers and batsmen in the Indian team do you find challenging, then Babar said that the challenging match is the match between Pakistan and India.
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Babar Azam said that the art of handling pressure comes with experience, as a young cricketer you feel more pressure, when I first played there was a lot of pressure but when you spend time with senior players, they give share their experiences on how to handle stress.
The national captain said that the toss is very important in all the matches in this World Cup because the batting is easier when the wicket gets better at night and there was a little dew on the field last night so the toss should play a very important role.
In response to another question, he said that I never play thinking that if I don’t win this match, my captaincy will go. I got captaincy because of one match and it will not go because of one match.
Our first priority is to deliver a good game and above all to enjoy the game, he added.
The captain of the national team said that so far I have not been able to play as well as I should in the World Cup, but I will see improvement in the next matches. Let the least mistake be made.
On the question of losing 7 World Cup matches to India in the past, he said that I don’t pay much attention to what has happened in the past and should focus on what is to come.
Records are meant to be broken as soon as they are made, try to play well, he said.
Babar said that the conditions of every city are different and not the same, somewhere there is more turn, somewhere there is a batting friendly wicket, each stadium has different conditions and we have made our plan accordingly.
They said that we will miss Naseem Shah a lot, he was very impressive in the Asia Cup and the way he was improving day by day, he will definitely be missed. Shaheen is our best bowler. I am sure he is a big match bowler, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t get a wicket in a couple of matches.
Rizwan adopted a new technique to counter the Indian spin attack
Wicket keeper batsman Muhammad Rizwan adopted a new technique for today (Saturday) Pakistan India match in ICC World Cup.
According to Indian media, Mohammad Rizwan faced a left-arm wrist spinner like Kuldeep Yadav in the net for 1 hour and practiced the sweep and reverse sweep shot against the spin bowler.
Indian media further reported that Rizwan practiced hard keeping in mind the condition.
Meanwhile, team director Mickey Arthur also explained the strategy to be adopted against India with the players.
Virat Kohli’s record in India against Pakistan is very disappointing
Former Indian captain has scored only 22 runs in 4 ODIs against Pakistan.
Virat Kohli started his World Cup 2023 campaign with two half-centuries (one against Australia and one against Afghanistan).
His innings of 85 runs against Australia was a brilliant innings as he and KL Rahul led India to a successful chase of 200 despite losing 3 wickets for 2 runs.
Kohli looks in fine form ahead of the high-voltage clash against arch-rivals Pakistan in Ahmedabad on October 14. He has an excellent record against Pakistan in ODI cricket.
Kohli scored 662 runs at an average of 55.16 in 15 ODIs against Pakistan, including three centuries.
However, Kohli’s record at home against Pakistan is quite appalling. At home (India), he has played four ODIs against Pakistan and scored only 22 runs.
His batting average is 5.50, which is disappointing for a player of Kohli’s class.
The right-hander’s first innings was against Pakistan in India in Mohali in 2011, where he scored just 9 runs in the semi-final of the World Cup.
Then Kohli played the famous 2012/13 ODI series against Pakistan, which was truly a nightmare for him and the entire Indian team.
Kohli’s scores in this series were 0 (5), 6 (9) and 7 (17) and he was dismissed by fast bowler Junaid Khan on all 3 occasions in the series.
Kohli’s ODI record at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad is also quite common. The veteran has played seven ODIs at this point and managed to score just 176 runs at an average of 25.14. He has only one half-century in those seven innings.
His last match at this position in an ODI was against West Indies in 2022 where he was dismissed for none by Al-Zari Joseph.
The statistics are clearly not in favor of the king of Indian cricket. However, fans will still be hopeful that Kohli will not let them down in the high-voltage encounter against Pakistan.
This will be the eighth time that India and Pakistan will face each other in an ODI World Cup match.
Pakistan’s national fast bowler Ehsanullah has predicted regarding the match between India and Pakistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup that the national team will win unilaterally against India.
Ehsanullah said that I am happy to achieve a record-breaking win against Sri Lanka, have beaten Sri Lanka and Netherlands, now we will beat India, we will beat every team and reach the semi-final and win the semi-final.
I wish Pakistan win the final, it will be a lot of fun: Ehsanullah.
The fast bowler has said that Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf bowl well, sometimes a bad day comes but it goes away, they are big match bowlers, we have high hopes from all three bowlers in the match against India. .
Ehsanullah added that for the match against India, I want to say that play with passion, the result will be good, I predict that Pakistan will win the one-sided match against India.
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