India vs Pakistan @ World Cup

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 tournament winners.
Bangalore 1996: First India Pakistan world cup match in subcontinent. As usual a high octane clash. Its a quarter final making it everything to fight for. Barring the home advantage to India, Pakistan was treated as a clear favorite. Sydney '92 was nothing more than fluke, after all. However, for some strange reason Wasim Akram pulled out of the match hours before the toss. For some evenly inexplicable reason Amir Sohail became the captain instead of old horse Miandad. Indian batsmen lead by Navjot Sindhu batted thir skins out reaching 288. Jadeja's 22 runs in Waqar's over earned a distinct fan base.
By the end of India's innings if at all anything is lost its the ego of Pakistan team. However, Saeed Anwar and Amir Sohail started the pakistani innings as if they are playing the match of their lives. Somehow India managed to get key wickets, amidst those wickets Amir Sohail threw his wicket handing eternal glory to Venkatesh Prasad. For generations to come, Venkatesh Prasad will be remembered for that wicket. Everyone said, we dont care even if we lose world cup as long as we win against Pakistan. This eventually came true and India suffered a monumental humiliation from Sri Lanka in the semi finals at Eden Gardens. That is one of those bad dreams that Indian fans doesnt want to wake up to.

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