No opinion, only stats: India vs Pakistan

Everybody and their mother-in-law is doing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take superhuman effort or an utter dislike/extreme disinterest in the game of cricket for someone from the sub-continent to avoid expressing their opinion on the second semi-finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. I intend to do something different. No opinions, only facts.

Here's the biggest dope of India versus Pakistan One Day cricket statistics that I could conjure. Most of them, you know. Some could be revelations.

Matches played: 119

India won: 46
Pakistan won: 69
No result: 4

Matches played in the World Cup: 4
India won: 4
Pakistan won: 0

Matched played in India: 26

India won: 9
Pakistan won: 17

The first India versus Pakistan ODI was played at Quetta on October 1, 1978. India won the 40 over match by 4 runs. India scored 170/7 and Pakistan could only muster 166/8. Mohinder Amarnath with 51 runs and 38/2 was the man of the match.

The last India-Pakistan ODI (prior to the upcoming Mohali Word Cup clash) was played at Dambulla, Sri Lanka. India won by 3 wickets. Pakistan scored 267 and India replied with 271/7. Gautam Gambhir got the man of the match award for his 81 runs.

As mentioned above, India met Pakistan four times in the World Cup and won all. A brief stats on the four landmark matches:

1. 1992 Benson & Hedges World Cup (India won by 43 runs)

Sydney Cricket Ground. March 4, 1992

India 216/7
Sachin Tendulkar 54, Ajay Jadeja 46
Manoj Prabhakar 2/22, Kapil Dev 2/30

Pakistan 173

Aamer Sohail 62, Javed Miandad 40
Mushtaq Ahmed 3/59, Aaqib Javed 2/28

2. 1996 Wills World Cup - Quarter-finals (India won by 39 runs)

Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. March 9, 1996

India 287/8

Navjot Sidhu 92, Ajay Jadeja 45
Venkatesh Prasad 3/45, Anil Kumble 3/48

Pakistan 248/9

Aamer Sohail 55, Saeed Anwar 48
Mushtaq Ahmed 2/56, Waqar Younis 2/67

3. 1999 ICC World Cup (India won by 47 runs)

Old Trafford, Manchester. June 8, 1999

India 227/6

Rahul Dravid 61, Md Azharuddin 59
Venkatesh Prasad 5/27, Javagal Srinath 3/37

Pakistan 180

Inzamam-ul-Haq 41, Saeed Anwar 36
Wasim Akram 2/27, Azhar Mahmood 2/35

4. 2003 ICC World Cup (India won by 6 wickets)
SuperSport Park, Centurion. March 1, 2003

Pakistan 273/7

Saeed Anwar 101, Younis Khan 32
Waqar Younis 2/71, Shahid Afridi 1/45

India 276/4

Sachin Tendulkar 98, Yuvraj Singh 50
Zaheer Khan 2/46, Ashish Nehra 2/74

5. 2011 ICC World Cup (India won by 29 runs)
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali,March 30, 2011

India  260/9

Sachin Tendulkar 85, Virender Sehwag  38

Wahab Riaz 4/46, Saeed Ajmal 2/44

Pakistan 231/10
Misbah-ul-Haq  56, Mohammad Hafeez 43