We Will End Our Losing Streak Against India In World Cup 2019: Inzamam-ul-Haq

The India-Pakistan rivalry has traditionally lived up to the expectations. The marquee clash rarely disappoints the cricket fans across the world. However, in recent times, India have earned the bragging rights of this fixture. Barring the loss in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, India have thoroughly dominated their arch rivals.

In the last year’s Asia Cup, India met Pakistan twice and won both the games convincingly. India’s record against Pakistan in World Cup is even more better. So far both the teams have played six games against each other and India have won all of them. However, Pakistan’s chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq is confident his country will break its six-match losing streak in the upcoming World Cup. India and Pakistan will lock horns in the mega-event on June 16.

Also Read: Mahela Jayawardene Declines Offer From Sri Lanka Cricket To Work With Team At World Cup

Pakistan have never won against India in a World Cup match but the former Test captain feels that they can post a breakthrough victory against the neighbours this time around when the two teams meet at Manchester next month.

“People take a Indo-Pak match very seriously and some even go on to say that ‘we will be happy even if only we can win against India during the World Cup’,” said Inzamam-ul-Haq.

“I’m hopeful that we will end our losing streak against India in World Cup matches,” he told a Pakistan Cricket website.

At the same time, the legendary batsman also said that the World Cup is not just about the match against India. He backed Pakistan to go the distance in the tournament, saying that the Men in Green “have the potential to beat other sides as well”. Pakistan go into the World Cup having suffered 10 successive ODI defeats and were also beaten by Afghanistan in the warm-up match of the World Cup.

Also Read: AB de Villiers to Reveal Real Reason Behind Retirement

Inzamam also opened up on the recent controversy surrounding the selection. Pakistan dropped three players – Junaid Khan, Faheem Ashraf and Abid Ali – from the preliminary squad to make room for Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Shami and Asif Ali.

“People think it is easy to jot down 14-15 players in order to form a squad but it’s nothing like that because there is a lot of pressure. For example it was very difficult for us to select fast-bowlers for the World Cup because there were a lot of good names around including the likes of (Mohammad) Amir, Junaid (Khan) and (Usman Khan) Shinwari,” said Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Pakistan, meanwhile, will open their campaign on May 31 against two-time champions West Indies.

Also Read: ICC World Cup 2019: Fielders are Going to Have a Crucial Role – Virat Kohli