6 lesser known facts about India-Pakistan

#2 Uncanny similarities

Javed Miandad hit the Asia Cup winning six in 1986

You know how they say that time is like a river and the river is a circle: hence, time is a never ending circle where things keep repeating itself in a very subtle way. And when you look at the amount of similarities between the Asia Cup India-Pakistan clashes of 1986 and 2014, you will get the gist of the aforementioned theory.

• Pakistan won the toss and chose to field first in both matches.
• Indian openers Krisnmachari Srikkanth and Rohit Sharma hit two sixes each.
• India scored 245 runs in both matches.
• Both Javed Miandad, in 1986, and Shahid Afridi, in 2014, hit three sixes each.
• Both matches ended with a six.
• Pakistan won both the matches by one wicket.
• Indian bowlers Chetan Sharma and Ravindran Ashwin—both of them bowled the last over—took three wickets each.
• In the 1986 clash, Chetan Sharma dismissed Pakistan's number 10 batsman Zulqarnain for a first-ball duck. In the Asia Cup ODI in 2014, Ashwin dismissed Pakistan's number 10 Saeed Ajmal for a first ball duck.
• Three Indian batsmen hit half-centuries in both matches — Srikkanth, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar in 1986; Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu and Ravindra Jadeja in the Asia Cup match.
• There were two run-outs in Pakistan’s innings in both games — Saleem Malik and Wasim Akram in Sharjah; Misbah-ul-Haq and Sohaib Maqsood in Mirpur.

Strange, isn’t it?