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India vs Pakistan @ World Cup

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Jai Guru Deva, As we move towards one more world cup its time to revisit the most riveting contest of the tournament called India-Pakistan match. Sydney 1992: It took 16 long years since the inception of the tournament to witness a face off between the arch rivals from sub continent. India registered a comfortable victory driven by Sachin's all round performance. At that stage of career Sachin was bowling medium fast. (That made him as the only bowler who bowled medium fast, off spin, leg spin all the while getting selected into the team as a specialist batsman  :)  ) However, that match is much remembered for Miandad and Javagal Srinath. The memory of the former sledging and associated antics stood as a cult image while the latter is remembered for the searing yorker to get rid of the same Miandad. I have never seen Srinath bowling the same ball again in the next 11 years of his career. Miandad of course, could not digest the defeat even though his team ended up as ...