{"id":1867,"date":"2021-10-24T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2021-10-24T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:13:15","slug":"cricketing-world-awaits-thrilling-indo-pak-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/cricketing-world-awaits-thrilling-indo-pak-tussle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketing World awaits thrilling Indo- Pak tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Oct 24, (Asia Free Press):The much-anticipated thriller cricket match between arch-rivals India and Pakistan is scheduled to take place in Dubai today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan will face India in the opening match of the ICC T-20 cricket World Cup at 7:00 p.m. Pakistan Standard Time (PST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricketing world is anticipating the match, which will mark India&#8217;s first meeting with Pakistan on a cricket pitch in two years. Millions of people around the world will tune in to watch the World Cup match between the two arch-rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan have lost all seven World Cup (50 overs) encounters with India, as well as five Twenty20 World Cup games, and will enter the tournament as &#8220;underdogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manoj Tiwary, an Indian cricketer, stated ahead of that match that while Pakistan&#8217;s team appears to be quite strong, he is optimistic that India will win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;India has a favourable record with Pakistan. Our batting is strong, and India&#8217;s bowling has improved significantly since the arrival of Bumrah. Due to the fact that he is the bowling&#8217;s undisputed leader. I have a feeling Pakistan&#8217;s team looks a little stronger this time around, but I&#8217;m hoping India wins &#8220;ANI, a local news organisation, reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Imran Khan, wished the team luck ahead of their high-stakes clash with India. The prime minister made the statement while speaking with his aides about cricket. &#8220;This team possesses the talent necessary to overcome India,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Babar Azam, Pakistan&#8217;s captain, warned India on Thursday that the national team will not be distracted by Pakistan&#8217;s previous performances when they face India on Sunday. He also asserted that the records are made to be broken.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Oct 24, (Asia Free Press):The much-anticipated thriller cricket match between arch-rivals India and Pakistan is scheduled to take place in Dubai today. Pakistan will face India in the opening match of the ICC T-20 cricket World Cup at 7:00 p.m. Pakistan Standard Time (PST). The cricketing world is anticipating the match, which will mark [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,396,82,53],"tags":[891,64,65,195],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-latest","category-paksitan","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-india","tag-pakistan","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}