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Ind vs Pak Champions Trophy: Fickle English weather can spoil party

Updated on: 04 June,2017 08:06 AM IST  |  Birmingham
Santosh Suri |

Praying for victory for their respective teams comes naturally to the supporters of both India and Pakistan

Ind vs Pak Champions Trophy: Fickle English weather can spoil party

Dark clouds surround the Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham during the Champions Trophy match between Australia and New Zealand on Friday. The game was washed out due to rain. PIC/Getty Images


Praying for victory for their respective teams comes naturally to the supporters of both India and Pakistan. But there is a need for an additional prayer -- the fickle English weather to stay good when the arch-rivals clash in their opening game of the Champions Trophy at Edgbaston today. No team would like the weather to determine the course of such an important game.


Coming to the game, it is given that no cricket match can be bigger than an India-Pakistan clash, which have been very few in recent times.


The last time the two countries met was during the 2015 World Cup in Adelaide two years ago.

After the Trans-Tasman clash on Friday between Australia and New Zealand was abandoned after persistent rains, fans are hoping that the weather does not play spoilsport again.

The Indian supporters will be upbeat as they always had the better of Pakistan in recent times at ICC events. India and Pakistan have met 15 times in ICC events — World Cup, World T20 or the Champions Trophy -- and Pakistan have won only twice. Those two defeats came in the 2004 and 2009 Champions Trophy games.

In the last Champions Trophy too, the Australia-New Zealand game was abandoned due to rain while India won the rain-curtailed tie against Pakistan by D/L method. Nobody likes a shortened game, which becomes more of a lottery.

After a gloomy Friday, the skies were blue on the eve of the match on Saturday. But it is very difficult to predict English weather with 70 per cent chances of rain already today.

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