Top 5 games played between India and Pakistan in Asia Cup

India-Pakistan rivalry over the years in cricketing fraternity has hyped the cricketing fans and media all over the world and in the recent times, although they don't play regularly due to political tension except for in big tournaments like Asia Cup, Champions Trophy, ICC World Cups.After 2019 ODI WC, for the first time India and Pakistan are set to play an ODI match against each other in Asia Cup 2023 (Group Stage) and notably, there is a good chance that India-Pakistan could clash against each other, three times overall in the Asia Cup 2023.Here, in this article we will have a look at top five games played between India and Pakistan in previous Asia Cup editions.1. Asia Cup 1988 India defeated Pakistan in group stage of the tournament in a must win situation to qualify for 1988 Asia Cup final as they lost their previous match to Sri Lanka by 17 runs. India winning the toss invited Pakistan to bat first and bundled their side for a total of just 142 runs as Arshad Ayub ended up picking a five-wicket haul (5/21) in a stunning fashion. Pakistan at one stage were 97/2 and from there they ended up collapsing to a total of just 142 runs.India in reply were also struggling at 116/6 and looked like Pakistan have an opportunity to defend a small total on board but Mohinder Amarnath played a brilliant innings off unbeaten 74 runs from 122 balls and helped India cross the winning line.Pakistan - 142 (42.2)Moin-ul-Atiq - 38 (64)Ramiz Raja - 33 (53)Saleem Malik - 19 (30)Arshad Ayub - 5/21 (9)Kapil Dev - 2/16 (6.2)Maninder Singh - 2/25 (9)India - 143/6 (40.4)Mohinder Amarnath - 74*(122)Kris Srikkanth - 23 (44)Mohammad Azharuddin - 15 (28)Abdul Qadir - 3/27 (9)Wasim Akram - 2/29 (9)Naved Anjum - 1/30 (8.4)Player of the Match: Arshad Ayub#PAGE_BREAK# 2. Asia Cup 2008 (Super Fours Stage) India in Super Four stage of the tournament against Pakistan posted a huge total of 308/7 in Karachi with the help of brisk start from Virender Sehwag and a very good innings from MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and Irfan Pathan to put pressure on their rival team. But Younis Khan smashed a brilliant ton (123*) and single handedly helped Pakistan to beat India by 8 wickets. Misbah-ul-Haq and Nasir Jamshed also scored fifty-plus respectively. India - 308/7 (50) MS Dhoni - 76 (96) Rohit Sharma - 58 (71) Virender Sehwag - 49 (33) Iftikhar Anjum - 3/51 (10) Abdur Rauf - 2/66 (10) Saeed Ajmal - 1/47 (10) Pakistan - 309/2 (45.3) Younis Khan - 123* (117) Misbah-ul-Haq - 70* (62) Nasir Jamshed - 53 (43) [Retd Hurt] Piyush Chawla - 1/53 (8) Player of the Match: Younis Khan #PAGE_BREAK# 3. Asia Cup 2010 India vs Pakistan match in 2010 Asia Cup saw one of the most intense battle between both sides as India went onto win this thrilling match by a very small margin with the help of Gambhir's brilliant 83 runs at the top and at the end Harbhajan Singh finished off things in style when India needed 36 runs to win from the last four overs along with the help of Suresh Raina. Pakistan batting first posted a total of 267 runs on board and India in the run-chase looked solid until Gambhir was in the crease, but post that India kept losing wickets and at one stage they were 219/6 after 45.1 overs and the stunning effort from Raina-Harbhajan pair saw India cross the winning line. The match is specially known for Harbhajan Singh's six off Shoaib Akthar and Gambhir's heated argument with Pakistan team on field. Pakistan - 267 (49.3)Salman Butt - 74 (85) Kamran Akmal - 51 (41) Shoaib Malik - 39 (46) Praveen Kumar - 3/53 (10) Zaheer Khan - 2/41 (9.3) Harbhajan Singh - 2/47 (8) India - 271/7 (49.5) Gautam Gambhir - 83 (97) MS Dhoni - 56 (71) Suresh Raina - 34 (27) Saeed Ajmal - 3/56 (10) Abdul Razzaq - 1/18 (5) Shoaib Malik - 1/28 (5)Player of the Match: Gautam Gambhir #PAGE_BREAK# 4. Asia Cup 2012 India vs Pakistan in Mirpur in 2012 saw one of the high scoring thriller ever in ODI history as India went onto chase 330 runs with the help of Virat Kohli's highest score (183). Pakistan posted a huge total of 329/6 with the help of 224 run-opening partnership between Mohammad Hafeez (105) and Nasir Jamshed (112). India in the run-chase went onto lose Gautam Gambhir for a duck and Virat Kohli walks in at 0/1 and played an aggressive knock off 183 from 148 balls which helped the team to chase down a mammoth total of 330 runs along with fifty-plus scores from Sachin Tendulkar (52) and Rohit Sharma (68) as well. Pakistan - 329/6 (50)Nasir Jamshed - 112 (104)Mohammad Hafeez - 105 (113)Younis Khan - 52 (34)Ashok Dinda - 2/47 (8)Praveen Kumar - 2/77 (10)Ravichandran Ashwin - 1/56 (10)India - 330/4 (47.5)Virat Kohli - 183 (148)Rohit Sharma - 68 (83)Sachin Tendulkar - 52 (48)Umar Gul - 2/65 (8.5)Mohammad Hafeez - 1/42 (9)Saeed Ajmal - 1/49 (9)Player of the Match: Virat Kohli#PAGE_BREAK# 5. Asia Cup 2014 Among all the mentioned above games this has been the most thrilling India vs Pakistan game witnessed in this tournament. Pakistan went onto win this game by just 1 wicket with the help of Shahid Afridi's heroics.India batting first posted an average total of 245/8 in 50 overs with the help of fifties from Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, and Ravindra Jadeja. Pakistan chasing 246 runs got a very good platform with the help of Mohammad Hafeez's sensible innings who scored 75 runs from 117 balls but after his wicket things went downhill for Pakistan. AT this time, Shahid Afridi's quick-fire 34 from 18 balls helped Pakistan to cross the winning line. Pakistan needed 10 runs to win from last over with just one wicket in hand and Shahid Afridi smashed two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin to win this thrilling match.India - 245/8 (50)Ambati Rayudu - 58 (62)Rohit Sharma - 56 (58)Ravindra Jadeja - 52* (49)Saeed Ajmal - 3/40 (10)Mohammad Talha - 2/22 (7)Mohammad Hafeez - 2/38 (9)Pakistan - 249/9 (49.4)Mohammad Hafeez - 75 (117)Ahmed Shehzad - 42 (44)Sohaib Maqsood - 38 (53)Ravichandran Ashwin - 3/44 (9.4)Amit Mishra - 2/28 (10)Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 2/56 (10)Player of the Match: Mohammad Hafeez

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