Unarguably, no other rivalry in world cricket at the moment, is even comparable to the rivalry that exists between India and Pakistan national cricket teams. Once a single nation, India and Pakistan have always had tension brewing between themselves.
And as we can tell, the tensions were not limited to being political in nature. India-Pakistan matches are so intense that you can literally cut the tension with a knife. One can say that India vs Pakistan history matches have always been a headliner.
| Date | Winner | Margin | Ground |
| 16-Jun-19 | India | 89 runs | Manchester |
| 15-Feb-15 | India | 76 runs | Adelaide |
| 30-Mar-11 | India | 29 runs | Mohali |
| 1-Mar-03 | India | 6 wickets | Centurion |
| 8-Jun-99 | India | 47 runs | Manchester |
| 9-Mar-96 | India | 39 runs | Bengaluru |
| 4-Mar-92 | India | 43 runs | Sydney |
Recently they met in World Cup 2019, where India showed pure dominance over Pakistan with both bat and ball, winning the match by a huge margin of 89 runs (DLS Method). This makes the tally 7-0 with Pakistan yet to open their account.
Rohit Sharma's 140 of just 113 balls and Virat's 77 of 65 balls were some of the highlights of batting. While Kuldeep Yadav picked two important wickets and Vijay Shankar who unexpectedly bowled replacing Bhuvaneshwar's spell also took two crucial wickets. Hardik Pandya's 2 consecutive wickets is also a notable highlight of the match.
If we take into account the total number of times these two teams have met for a game of cricket it is evident that Pakistan has been able to come out on the top more number of times. But India vs Pakistan Head to Head stats in ICC World Cup tournaments sing an entirely different tale. India and Pakistan have faced each other for a total of seven times at the ICC Cricket World Cup, and India leads the Head to Head stats 7-0. Pakistan has never been able to defeat India at the 50-over World Cup.
Lets take a look at some of Ind vs Pak Head to Head Stats
| Span | Player | Team | Runs | Matches | Innings | Highest Score | Average | Strike Rate | 100 | 50 |
| 1992-2011 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 313 | 5 | 5 | 98 | 78.25 | 83.24 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011-2019 | V Kohli | India | 193 | 3 | 3 | 107 | 64.33 | 91.03 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996-2003 | Saeed Anwar | Pakistan | 185 | 3 | 3 | 101 | 61.66 | 91.58 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-2019 | Rohit Sharma | India | 155 | 2 | 2 | 140 | 77.5 | 116.54 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011-2015 | Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 132 | 2 | 2 | 76 | 66 | 82.5 | 0 | 2 |
Sachin Tendulkar is the Highest Run Scorer in India vs Pakistan world cup history with 313 runs under his name. Virat Kohli occupies the second place by scoring 193 runs in 3 matches.
| Span | Player | Team | Wickets | Matches | Innings | BBI | Economy | 5 Wkts |
| 1996-1999 | Venkatesh Prasad | India | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5/27 | 3.69 | 1 |
| 2011-2015 | Wahab Riaz | Pakistan | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5/46 | 5.53 | 1 |
| 1992-2003 | J Srinath | India | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3/37 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996-2003 | Anil Kumble | India | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3/48 | 4.73 | 0 |
| 1992-1996 | Mushtaq Ahmed | Pakistan | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3/59 | 5.75 | 0 |
| 2015-2015 | Sohail Khan | Pakistan | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5/55 | 5.5 | 1 |
Indian Veteran bowler Venkatesh Prasad tops the table of Highest Wickets in Ind vs Pak head to head world cup matches with 8 wickets in his bag. Wahab Riaz of Pakistan, stands second in the table with 7 wickets.
With the given India vs Pakistan world cup history, no wonder everyone was very excited to see if there will be any changes in the India vs Pakistan head to head stats. But infact we got the same result.
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