India vs Pakistan: Who has the upper hand in the Asia Cup?
Updated On: 01 September, 2023 07:02 AM IST | Pallekele | R Kaushik
As thousands celebrate the famous festival of the tooth in this SL town, the focus will emphatically shift to cricket on Saturday when old foes India and Pakistan resume their rivalry with the first of potentially five 50-over matches in two-and-a-half months
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Pakistan ’keeper Mohd Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi chat with India’s Virat Kohli during the 2022 T20 World Cup match at Melbourne. Pic/AFP
The generally tranquil town of Kandy was buzzing with electricity on Thursday; the annual Esala Perahera pageant—also known as the festival of the tooth—drew to a close and thousands lined the streets to partake of Diya Kapeema (the water cutting ceremony) and Dahawal Perahera (the day procession). The Asia Cup match between co-hosts Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the nearby Pallekele International Cricket Stadium was not even so much as an afterthought.
Stop-start rivalry
The focus will shift emphatically, if only temporarily, to cricket on Saturday afternoon when old foes India and Pakistan resume their recent stop-start rivalry with the first of potentially five 50-over matches in two and a half months. That will be quite something, considering that in the last 10 years, they have met just seven times, all in multi-team competitions.
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