Asia Cup: 'Jab tak jung hai tab tak cricket ki rivalry rahegi' - Former Pak captain

TimesofIndia.com successful Dubai: Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif has stirred the statement up of the Asia Cup final, saying the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry volition ne'er extremity arsenic agelong arsenic the governmental hostility betwixt the 2 nations continues. “There volition beryllium rivalry. Jab tak jung hai tab tak cricket ki rivalry rahegi. Ye khatam nahi hogi (As agelong arsenic determination is war, determination volition beryllium rivalry successful cricket. It volition not end),” helium told TimesofIndia.com connected the eve of the acme clash. “But yes, India volition proceed to win. That is not a problem. But rivalry volition ever beryllium there. It volition continue,” Latif said. Latif besides took a sly excavation astatine Team India skipper Suryakumar Yadav, who, aft winning against Pakistan successful the Super Four clash, had said determination is nary rivalry betwixt India and Pakistan anymore.

“You guys (media) should halt asking astir the rivalry. If the 2 teams are playing 15-20 games and the scoreline is 7-7 oregon 8-7, past it is called rivalry. If the scoreline is 10-1 oregon 13-0—I don’t cognize the nonstop number—but this is not a rivalry anymore,” Surya had said connected September 21. Meanwhile, Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha powerfully believes that they person saved their champion for the final. “There is ever a batch of unit connected Pakistan and India erstwhile they play each other, and if we accidental that determination is nary pressure, past it is wrong.

Both teams volition person the aforesaid magnitude of pressure,” Salman said astatine the pre-final property league successful Dubai. “We person made much mistakes than them, and that is wherefore we person not won matches. If we marque less mistakes than them, we volition win. Whichever squad makes less mistakes volition win, and we volition effort to marque less mistakes. “Inshallah, you volition spot america winning tomorrow. Our effort is to play our champion cricket. And we cognize that if we play our champion cricket and execute our plans for 40 overs, past we tin bushed immoderate team.

And we volition effort to bash that.” Rashid Latif further added that the unit of the marquee clash volition ever beryllium heavier connected India. “The disadvantage volition beryllium for India. India has everything to lose. Pakistan has thing to lose; they are already underdogs. If Pakistan wins here, it volition beryllium precise pugnacious for the BCCI, and besides for immoderate players who person been precise vocal astir this tournament—be it the captain’s statement, the board’s stance, oregon Shubman Gill’s tweet. There volition beryllium a batch of sound astir that,” helium remarked. Latif admitted that portion India holds the borderline successful presumption of accomplishment and temperament, the unpredictability of T20 cricket leaves the contention wide open. “India is up successful presumption of skills. They tin instrumentality pressure. But this is simply a T20 game. Anyone tin win. So it is going to beryllium a pugnacious match,” helium said.