🏏Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan vs India, 5th Match, Group A🏏 - Page 5

India against Pakistan is generally a high stakes encounter, but this game today at the Ring of Fire could be all the more heated with so many political undertones beneath the cricket, and India having the chance to pretty much eliminate the reigning champions. Which side of the Radcliffe Line will be celebrating tonight? We'll find out in due course of time, but till then stick around for the toss and team news...

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Ani: "You mentioned the most talented players as Virat, Rohit and Gill. And then go on to to say that India's middle order is arguably stronger than the top. Bit contrary?" Not all of them are at their peaks, but they are remarkably talented.

Jeet k aana boys

Bleed blue

Sabih: "What id like to see today is a bit more fire from both sides. Stop the lovey dovey smiles and leave them outside the ground. Inside.... It should be ON. "Shoaib Akhtar - Harbhajan replay plays in mind"" Anil Kumble, Urooj Mumtaz, and Sanjay Manjrekar also talked about this on Runorder.

Dhaval : "I feel Pakistan are going to come out with a different energy. India needs to be at their best to counter Shaheen and Naseem. Pretty sure Bumrah will be missed dearly today. Excited plus Nervous!!"

Sidd: "So Babar doesn't like spinners spinning the ball into him, whereas Kohli doesn't like spinners spinning the ball away from him... What a contest we have on our hands tonight!"

Bumrah is on the field in civil dress. Maybe he came on holiday.

Cartoft: "I'm an England supporter and would normally be neutral in this game. But I'm rooting for Pakistan because I think they have been grossly unfairly treated in having to play this match "away". India get the benefit of playing all their matches at the same ground where they are familiar with the conditions and they have no travelling. Who wants to see the hosts go out in the first round?"

Team India singing Vande Mataram (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)