Top 5 ODI contests in the India-Pakistan rivalry

3rd ODI, Pakistan’s Tour of India 1986-7

This tied match between Indian and Pakistan was played at Hyderabad and has been lost somewhere in the archives. After Ravi Shastri and Kapil Dev compiled a partnership to give India a respectable score of 212 against the joined forces of Imran Khan and Wasim Akram, Pakistan had cruised along by virtue of Saleem Malik’s 84 of 89 balls. However, a last ball mix-up saw Abdul Qadir go for an impossible second run and was run-out. The match was declared an India win as they had lost fewer wickets. However, it was later noted that India had only 3 players in the inner circle on the last ball. Call it fate.