India (IND) vs Pakistan (PAK) Asia Cup 2025 Today’s Match Live Updates: It’s India vs Pakistan time at the 2025 Asia Cup. The match rarely ever comes without some kind of overtone or the other that is far bigger than cricket and this time, it largely is on opposition within India to their side playing the match, which is the first between the two countries since the Pahalgam terror attack.
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Both teams are heading into the contest on the back of convincing wins in their respective openers. India dominated hosts UAE by nine wickets in their first match, while Pakistan outclassed Hong Kong China by 93 runs comfortably. However, the overall picture is quite different for the two sides since the end of the 2024 T20 World Cup, which India had won.
India under Suryakumar Yadav have been utterly dominant, establishing themselves as the reigning world champions. Pakistan, on the other hand, went into an existential crisis of sorts and are now a young side under Salman Agha trying to forge an identity.
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Asia Cup: Why the India versus Pakistan rivalry has lost its edge; PAK fans lament woh zamaana alag tha
The India vs Pakistan rivalry, once equal, replete with magnetic personas, has lost its competitive edge. (AP)
In the walkway beside the nets for trainees at the ICC Academy, Rashid Alam reminisces the ferocity of the India-Pakistan rivalry to his two children, both wearing Pakistan jerseys bearing their names. “Woh zamaana alag tha” (Those times were different),” he says. “We had the world’s best fast bowlers and great batsmen too. Those days we would beat India regularly.”
Alam, who is from Karachi and works in Dubai as a software engineer, says his children don’t understand what it all once meant. “They can’t be blamed. The rivalry has become one-sided.”
