India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final LIVE: Match to begin at 8 p.m. IST

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People clasp  banners successful  ‘Shikaras’ astatine  Dal Lake to enactment    Team India's triumph  successful  the Asia Cup last  cricket lucifer  against Pakistan, successful  Srinagar, connected  September 28, 2025.

People clasp banners successful ‘Shikaras’ astatine Dal Lake to enactment Team India's triumph successful the Asia Cup last cricket lucifer against Pakistan, successful Srinagar, connected September 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI

As the head-to-head grounds testifies, India has marched up successful the past 2 decades. In 15 T20Is betwixt these teams since the archetypal successful 2007, the existent T20 World Cup champion has won 12. It has besides emerged victorious successful each of their past 7 white-ball meetings. Pakistan, connected the different hand, would similar to emphasise connected a 8-4 grounds successful finals of white-ball tournaments. 

Recent dominance manifested successful Suryakumar Yadav’s assertion aft India’s six-wicket triumph successful the Super Four signifier that this was nary longer a rivalry. “According to me, if 2 teams play 15-20 matches and if [head-to-head] it is 7-7 oregon 8-7, past that is called a rivalry. But 13-0, 10-1… I don’t cognize what the stats are. But this is not a rivalry anymore,” Suryakumar declared. 

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For Pakistan to beryllium otherwise, Salman Agha’s men volition not conscionable person to play retired of their tegument but besides anticipation for India to beryllium off-colour.

Pakistan manager Mike Hesson did instrumentality bosom from his squad being competitory successful the Super Four decision to India past weekend. But ultimately, adjacent a people of 172 was chased down comfortably with 7 balls to spare. Abhishek Sharma was the designer with the bat connected that occasion, and volition again clasp the aces fixed his sublime form.

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The teams (from): India: Suryakumar Yadav (Capt.), Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

Pakistan: Salman Agha (Capt.), Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Haris (wk), Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Faheem Ashraf, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Wasim, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem.

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Published - September 28, 2025 06:20 p.m. IST

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