Is India v Pakistan still cricket’s greatest rivalry?

Hadire crowds, blue and green faces, flags waved like battle standards.

This is the opening of the greatest competition: India against Pakistan, New Netflix The documentary On one of the most cricket competitions.

India Virender Sehwag The tone determines: “This is a biggest competition than the competition between bats and the ball.” Cut into dramatic shots for some matches, Waja borderand to divide Refugees. A nation was divided into two parts, but forever binding on the cake.

Pakistan Yunus dar It does not hesitate: “I put this competition at the top. There is no match like India against Pakistan.” India R Ashwin He agrees to: “I think this is larger than ash.” Ramez Raja “The political appetizers that make this world -class competition.”

Despite wars, border approvals and Terrorist attacksThe rivalry of cricket in Pakistani India, driven by national history and pride. Even when the policy stops the bilateral chain, the International Cricket Council (ICC) championships keeps fire alive, and turns each match into a high -risk scene.

but Pakistan’s overwhelming defeat for India On Sunday in The Champions Trophy, the question aroused: Is this competition full -time, supported by slogans such as “War Minus The Shooting” – the phrase George Orwell formulated in 1945 to criticize excessive nationalism in sport?

Is this the main clash of cricket, or just one of the most dramatic? Have you lost a competitive advantage, working on history more than intensity?

Consider this. From eight and Aikit crushed in 2018 to the demolition of 228 in 2023, India took control of six last eight Odees. Pakistan’s last victory? The 2017 Champions Cup final – increasingly dull memory Conflicting is unilateral.

What is the competitionHe asked Dawn – a leading Pakistani newspaper – clearly after another disaster fashion. Cricket game is now just a great yawningHis title in India today.

It will be easier to accept the loss if Pakistan was at least a fight, according to Dawn’s Zohaib Ahmed Majeed.

Majeed believes that the turbulent policy between neighbors is the only thing that has survived competition.

“Somehow we must thank the politicians of these two countries for keeping this competition alive, because the Cricket players, especially on our part, are certainly unable to make an offer worthy of its bills,” he wrote.

“Cut the war of words and actual wars and what you leave with is the professional cricket unit against the random team at the last minute. There is no competition regarding the advantages of pure cricket.”

India today was not less than peak. “With its history of unilateral losses against India in recent years, the Pakistani cricket game quickly slip into pity lands. And unless this trend reflects, Pakistan’s dream of competing with India can soon turn into a back of jokes for cricket fans,” Sandipan Sharma books .

To be correct, the crochet problems in Pakistan remain rising. They missed the last match in the last three World Cup of ODI, and crashed in the T20 World Cup group and now, as flight attendants, they hit a rock.

since The 2009 attack on the Brock team of LankaHe fought the game of isolation, Pakistani cricket, political turmoil, instability in the board of directors, repeated training changes and selection differences – all add to its struggles. Meanwhile, across the border, India has risen as a crochet game, with the support of a strong local system and iPL, the richest international league in the cricket.

Pakistani writer Othman Sami Al -Din also notes a sense of “marginalization” among the cricket players in his country, who are still excluded from the iPL and his ecosystem of the concession (no Pakistani player in IPL has appeared since 2009, where they were banned after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai). He told the newspaper a program.

All of this contributed to the team’s transmitted wealth.

“It is a highly feasible exercise to wonder if this is it The lowest cricket was in Pakistan at all. However, even when Pakistan retreated to the lowest amazing levels in the past, they did so in a way that justifies the mercury nature, “Sidharm Monga wrote at Espncricinfo, wrote, After the Sunday match.

“This slide looks like a peripheral, a slow decrease. The players do not fight with each other, there is no conspiracy that extracted defeats from the jaws of victory.”

The “war without weapons” was once and a weight, especially when Imran Khan Pakistan, the armed with a frightening pace of Sim Akram and Duke Younes and the beating stars such as Jafid Mayad and Einzamam, are better than India.

“The narration may be correct until the early first decade of the twentieth century because this is what the actual fans felt. But the multinational companies and the media quickly kidnapped excessive ducts in everything.” And the clerk of the column, tell me.

“The quality of the cricket game between the two sides is no longer the same. Indian cricket is still improving. In fact, I think the narration here has ended up pressing the Pakistani side more. They reduce this, although they are more than willing In its financial benefits.

Cricket panels and broadcasters do everything in their power to keep competition alive, and ICC will not ask for noise – it is of great value in the era of excessive exposure to Cricket and limited stars and competition from the cricket game.

This game has become one of the financial tyrants, nourishing a parallel economy wherever you play – Dubai, London, Ahmed Abad – attracts fans who spend greatly just because they are there. “Pakistan has a talent, but the competition is now more psychological,” says Gotam Bachshiria.

The brand consultant, Santosh Desai, feels that the real competition between the arc competitors is playing outside the cricket and “competition flourishes in imagination more than reality.”

“Not to be asymmetry [between the two sides] Just nourish the noise. India’s dominance makes it easy to sell, which is the Battle of Royal, where the result feels renewed. If Pakistan is constantly winning, the marketing call will fade. Desai told me: “The commercial force of competition lies in the superiority of India, as it nourishes a text designed to verify health, not uncertainty.”

India captain Schobman’s deputy refuses to talk about excessive style, and describes him that the competition fans love to watch it. “It is an exciting competition when both teams play,” he told reporters.

The gills maybe right. India’s Tickets for India Pakistan are still on the shelves – the International Criminal Court has reported sales within minutes. amazing 600 million viewers It was seized to watch the Sunday match on the Indian Broadcasting platform JIOHOTSTAR, and record new records.

But at the present time, the Cricket writer Ayaz Maimon says, “noise is more exciting than the same cricket.”