The escalating political tensions between India and Pakistan is not a new thing. Both teams haven’t played a bilateral series since 2012 for obvious reasons and they have been meeting each other only in ICC and ACC events.
Both teams locked horns with each other in the recently-concluded Asia Cup and ICC T20 World Cup. In the three meetings between both teams, India won twice whereas Pakistan managed to edge past their arch-rivals only once.
India beat Pakistan in the group stage of the Asia Cup 2022 in the United Arab Emirates. However, they surrendered at the hands of the Pakistan cricket team in the Super 4 stage.
Both the teams locked horns with each other once again in the Super 12 stage of the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 in Australia. The Men in Blue came through with flying colours by beating Pakistan by 4 wickets.
Popular Pakistan Journalist picks current best India-Pakistan T20I XI, leaves out Naseem Shah
Meanwhile, a famous Pakistani journalist decided to come up with a unique T20I XI featuring both India and Pakistan players. It seems to be quite an interesting T20I XI having both players of India and Pakistan.
He further asked the fans and followers that if at all there is a match between Indo-Pak against the Rest of the World series, what would be their Indo-Pak XI in the T20I format.
The journalist picked five players from India and six players from Pakistan. There is no place for Naseem Shah in the playing XI. However, the reporter didn’t name the captain of the playing XI.
“Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Mohammad Rizwan, Hardik Pandya, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Jasprit Bumrah. If we have an Indo-Pak vs Rest of the World series, what would be your Indo-Pak XI in T20I format?,” the journalist tweeted.
Rohit Sharma
Babar Azam
Virat Kohli
Suryakumar Yadav
Mohammad Rizwan
Hardik Pandya
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Nawaz
Shaheen Afridi
Haris Rauf
Jasprit BumrahIf we have an Indo-Pak vs Rest of the World series, what would be your Indo-Pak XI in T20I format?
Advertisement— Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) November 16, 2022
