So About That India vs Pakistan Match Last Night...

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1497855730860","data":"If cricket was poker, then Pakistan went all in for every strike yesterday only to find that the odds were constantly in their favour. <\/p>What would we be as a nation without India vs Pakistan cricket matches? If cricket is our religion then India vs Pakistan is our Diwali, Eid and Christmas all rolled into one giant package where all of us are home glued to the TV watching each bowl with the intensity of a hawk. Emotions are high, both the best and the worst of social media is put on display. I won't lie here, I enjoy annoying Pakistani fans on twitter but yesterday I had to eat my words and I was more than happy to do so. <\/p>Before I'm labelled anti-national for even thinking that Pakistan deserved the win, allow me to explain why. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1497856743364","data":"59477b693f6f5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1497856795194","data":"Pakistan played like they were possessed yesterday. There was no question of slowing down and settling in, the shots ranged from rough and unrefined to master class hits out of the park. One after another, Fakhar Zaman and Azhar Ali carried the vanguard of our doom, breaking our bowler's morale and the cherry on the top was Hafeez's knock to cover up the gaps his teammates had left. <\/p>I did ask myself where was this team when we defeated them in the group stages, but watching the highlights of that match post the final, the difference in Pakistan's aggression and attacking is clear. The first time they played against us in this tournament, they played carefully, afraid to make mistakes, trying to avoid screwing up wherever they could against a, and let's be honest, much superior team. <\/p>For I will still say that the Indian line-up is easily one of the best in cricket right now, the tremendous amount of batting talent combined with our bowlers should have been enough to carry us to victory in a high tension match up like this, but it wasn't enough. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1497857439423","data":"59477e6aadd8b"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1497857565242","data":"What worked against us was the pressure to score right from the first ball of the innings, a fact I'm sure the Pakistans hoped would happen and worked in their favour, with Amir dismissing Rohit Sharma immediately. This pressure was also clearly apparent on Yuvraj Singh's face, an excellent player when he's calm and collected, but who often misses shots due to pressure at times, which basically is what happened yesterday. There was some amount of role reversal as well, with India slowing down to play defensive for a while, afraid to make mistakes, which ironically turned into a costly mistake by itself. <\/p>There was a glimmer of hope in the sea of darkness that had descended on the Indian side when Hardik Pandya stepped up at 5 down. The young man understood what worked for Pakistan and that's what he did, let his pure unchecked aggression into his batting, took insane risks and it paid off. The Pakistani bowling side wilted against the onslaught of Pandya's shots, but it simply wasn't India's day when a miscommunication with his co-batsman Ravindra Jadeja caused him to be run out. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1497857989029","data":"594780354490c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1497857992083","data":"Hardik Pandya: Remember the name!  <\/i><\/p>We failed Pandya yesterday, the rest of the team's performance did not warrant Pandya's impressive knock, but he came out onto the pitch, made it his own and made the bowlers cry until he couldn't anymore. Besides, there's hardly anything a batsman can do with the abysmal score we had until he stepped onto the field at 5 down. <\/p>Virat Kohli in the post-match press conference appreciated and acknowledged the Pakistani players performance, speaking about the batsmen taking insane risks and paying off, and we can only hope he learns something from this match going forward. The show of sportsmanship from the Indian skipper was a warm fuzzy feeling in times like these, where tensions are high between the two countries.<\/p>Speaking of tensions, of course, we wouldn't be India if we didn't overreact to losing an India vs Pakistan match (and for that matter overreact even when we win matches). News reports of people breaking TVs, which I had hoped would only be restricted to Pakistan when they lose, were reported from India this time. A game would be boring if only one side won in a high tension match up all the time, and we can safely say that cricket won yesterday. We saw some excellent strokes and knocks, from our next door neighbours and it'll give Kohli some room to learn from his mistakes, as well as the rest of the team. I just hope the rest of the country grows up. <\/p>I had an amusing epiphany while thinking about this before going to bed last night: we are told to hate Pakistan right from childhood, no reasons are given, all we're given is an enemy we are supposed to hate. The amusing part is that the country we are supposed to hate the most is the most like us, and that is a tragedy of epic proportions because what does that tell you about our own society? <\/p>It sounded funnier in my head. <\/p>"}]

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