It is often said that India dominates Pakistan in ICC tournaments. Hence the “Mauka Mauka” ads which aired at the beginning of the 2015 and 2019 World Cups.
Let us see take a closer look at the history of these encounters. First, the World Cup:
Note the two matches at Manchester separated by 20 years. In 1999 the mini-war in Kargil was in progress.
India and Pakistan never met in the World Cups of 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1987. They were somehow always drawn in different groups so they could have met only in the semi-finals or finals.
It was not until 1992 that they met in the World Cup. In that tournament (as in 2019) all teams played each other in the round-robin knockout stage.
They met in the quarter-finals in 1996, Super Six in 1999, and a pool match in 2003. India won all these matches so the feeling of a jinx over Pakistan kept growing.
In 2007, both India and Pakistan were jinxed and failed to proceed beyond the pool stage, being displaced by Bangladesh and Ireland respectively.
In 2011, India won in the semi-final, repeated this in a pool match in 2015 and again in a round-robin match in 2019.
This makes it 7 out of 7.
If you want to see the scorecards, open this link and click on the blue square on the extreme right.
Now we go to the T20 World Championship. We will come back to the Champions Trophy at the end.
The teams met twice in the inaugural championship in 2007. Though the match in the pool stage was a tie, India got the winner’s points as they won in the bowl-out which was then the method used to determine the winner of a tied match.
Then India won against Pakistan in the final. The teams did not meet in 2009 and 2010. India won the next three encounters in 2012, 2014 and 2016. All of these were in the group stages and not the semi-final or final. Thus India leads 5-0 (including the tie) in the World T20 Championship.
You can see the scorecards from this link:
For details of the bowl-out in the first match in 2007, see the commentary section rather than the scorecard.
But the story in the Champions Trophy is somewhat different:
India and Pakistan did not meet in 1998, 2000 or 2002 (when India shared the trophy with Sri Lanka). Pakistan won the first encounter in 2004 in the group stage. They did not meet in 2006. Pakistan won in 2009, also in the group stage. India finally won in 2013, in a group match on their way to the trophy.
In 2017, India won the group match but lost in the final.
So the jinx on Pakistan in ICC tournaments does not apply to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy, where they lead India 3-2.
See the scorecards here:
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