“I’ll stick with…”- Ricky Ponting predicts winner of India-Pakistan clash at Asia Cup

“I’ll stick with…”- Ricky Ponting predicts winner of India-Pakistan clash at Asia Cup

Ricky Ponting

Australian legend Ricky Ponting has recently predicted winner of India-Pakistan clash at the Asia Cup. Asia Cup will start from August 28 with the opening match between cricket’s two arch-rivals India and Pakistan.

“To be totally honest it’s one that we’ve been starved of, haven’t we…looking back the last 15 or 20 years,” Ponting told Sanjana Ganesan on The ICC Review.

“As a cricket lover like I am and a cricket observer, any time those sorts of battles come up it’s almost always nice to sit back and watch because everything just goes up a notch, doesn’t it?” He added.

India and Pakistan haven’t played against each othet since last year’s T20 World Cup. Both the countries haven’t clashed in Test since a draw-match in 2007 in Bengaluru where Saurav Ganguly made headlines with his 239 runs.

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“Actual rivalry would be the pinnacle of Test match cricket”- Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting
IND vs PAK

But the two rivals can again face each other in Tests at the final of the World Test Championship next year and for Ponting, and other cricket lovers, it would certainly be an interesting match to watch. Ponting stated that he would love to see the growth of even more rivalry between the two rivals.

“When I think about rivalries, Australia and England and Ashes cricket is the pinnacle I’ve always thought of for our Test match game,” Ponting stated.

“I’m sure India and Pakistanis will say the same about that and the actual rivalry would be the pinnacle of Test match cricket for those two countries as well.”

Ponting then revealed who thinks will win the final of Aisa Cup 2022. “I’ll stick with India to win that clash against Pakistan. That’s taking nothing away from Pakistan because they are an incredible cricket nation that continue to present out-and-out superstar players,” he said in the latest edition of ICC Review.

In the head-to-head clash in Asia Cup, India is ahead with 7-5 advantage from 13 matches and one of them was a no result one.

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