Sachin Tendulkar has won Man-of-the-Match in three out of five World Cup games against Pakistan, but he won’t be around to help India out on Sunday
S Rajesh14-Feb-20155-0 India’s World Cup record against Pakistan, having beaten them in 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2011. The only other team against whom India have a perfect World Cup record, with a minimum of three matches played, is Kenya (4-0). For Pakistan, South Africa is the only other country against whom they’ve played more than one World Cup game without winning any (0-3).72-50 Pakistan’s overall lead in ODIs against India. India are 4-3 ahead in matches played in Australia, though, and won their only previous match-up in Adelaide by 48 runs.1 The number of hundreds scored in India-Pakistan World Cup games. Saeed Anwar is the only one to get a hundred: he scored 101 in Centurion in the 2003 tournament. India’s highest is Sachin Tendulkar’s 98, in the same game. India have seven 50-plus scores in these matches, though, compared to four by Pakistan.24.02 Pakistan’s batting average in these five matches against India, which is their lowest against a team they’ve played at least three times in the World Cup. India’s average against Pakistan is 37.23, which is their second-best with a similar qualification.49.86 The average runs per wicket for Pakistan’s fast bowlers since the beginning of 2014, easily the poorest among all teams (with a cut-off of 15 ODIs). Their economy rate of 6.01 is also the worst, jointly with West Indies. The India seamers average 29.06 over the same period, which is second among all teams, after South Africa’s 26.55. Even excluding the series in Bangladesh in June last year, when India’s seamers got plenty of wickets in favourable conditions, they average a respectable 31.74 during this period.3 Number of Man-of-the Match awards won by Sachin Tendulkar in World Cup games against Pakistan. He is the only player to have played in all five of these games, and his scores in those matches are: 54*, 31, 45, 98 and 85 – 313 runs at an average of 78.25. No other batsman from either team has touched 200. Sunday’s game will be the first India-Pakistan World Cup game which won’t feature Tendulkar.4 Number of tosses India have won, in five World Cup games against Pakistan. The only one they lost was in 2003 in Centurion. The team winning the toss has always batted first in these five matches.14-11 India’s win-loss record in ODIs since the beginning of 2014, which puts them in fifth place, after Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Pakistan have a 6-12 record, which is the poorest among the top-eight teams.83 Aggregate runs Virat Kohli has scored against Pakistan in eight of his nine innings, at an average of 11.86. In the other innings, though, he scored 183, in the Asia Cup match in Mirpur in 2012, which gives him an overall average of 33.25 in nine innings.699 Ahmed Shehzad’s ODI aggregate since the beginning of 2014, the highest among Pakistan’s batsmen. Shehzad has averaged 38.83 during this period, with two centuries. No other Pakistan batsman has scored 500 runs during this period.
