Welcome to reside protection of T20 World Cup Tremendous 12 match between India vs Pakistan on the MCG. First ball: 7pm AEDT.

India vs Pakistan: the most well liked ticket on the town, a lot in order that the MCG was offered out in simply half-hour.

Tonight these two proud cricket nations conflict in Melbourne, with the fortunes of the respective sides resting on two of the fashionable day nice batters — India’s Virat Kohli and Pakistan’s Babar Azam.

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When the 2 nations met final yr, Pakistan shocked India in probably the most dramatic approach as Mohammad Rizwan (79 not out) and Azam (68 of 52) led their nation to an enormous 10-wicket win after chasing down 7-151 after simply 17.5 overs.

The victory, nonetheless, was arrange by Shaheen Shah Afridi who took 3-31 and dismissed each of India’s openers from his opening seven balls earlier than late eradicating Kohli.

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Pakistan made the semi-finals earlier than some Matthew Wade and Marcus Stoinis brilliance noticed Australia knock them out, whereas India did not make the knockout stage.

Each nations are thought of robust contenders to carry the World Cup whereas India enter the match as Ricky Ponting’s choose to make it to the ultimate.

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Ponting nominated Suryakumar Yadav as his World Cup breakout star, with the skilled batter now a mainstay in India’s short-form crew.

India leads the World Cup head-to-head 12-1 over Pakistan and Indian nice Sunil Gavaskar believes it’s all the way down to his nation having the ability to “take up the strain rather a lot higher”.

“It won’t be the disaster (for India) that appears to be case when a Pakistan crew loses to India,” he advised the ABC.

Pakistan have a constant facet and can as soon as once more open with Azam and Rizwan.

The MCG is predicted to be full after promoting out inside an hour whereas followers are hoping the rain stays away.

The solar was shining vibrant over the stadium roughly two hours earlier than the primary ball in a promising signal.

India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami.

Standby Gamers: Mohammed Siraj, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Shardul Thakur.

Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood.

Standby Gamers: Usman Qadir, Mohammad Haris, Shahnawaz Dahani.

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