Sunday 15Th February 2015 Schedule for the Cricket World Cup.

Sunday 15Th February 2015 Schedule for the Cricket World Cup.

World Cup 2015 schedule, World Cup 2015 fixture, World Cup, Cricket World Cup The World Cup 2015 is scheduled- South Africa vs Zimbabwe Match 3, at Seddeon Park, Hamilton and India vs Pakistan Match 4, at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide on Sunday 15th February 2015.

India–Pakistan cricket rivalry

The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most intense sports rivalries in the world.[1][2]. No other cricketing rivalry pumps close to this rivalry. It is considered one of the best rivalries in world sport joining the likes of Brazil vs Argentina Association Football rivalry, Uruguay vs Brazil's Association Football rivalry etc. An India-Pakistan cricket match has been estimated to attract up to three hundred million television viewers, according to TV ratings firm Initiative. The 2011 World Cup semifinal between the two teams attracted around 150 million television viewers.

The arch-rival relations between the two nations, resulting from the extensive communal violence and conflict that marked the Partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947 and the subsequent Kashmir conflict, laid the foundations for the emergence of an intense sporting rivalry between the two nations who had erstwhile shared a common cricketing heritage. The first Test series between the two teams took place in 1951-52, when Pakistan toured India. India toured Pakistan for the first time in 1954-55. Between 1962 and 1977, no cricket was played between the two countries owing to two major wars in 1965 and 1971. The 1999 Kargil War and the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks have also interrupted cricketing ties between the two nations.

The growth of large expatriate populations from India and Pakistan across the world led to neutral states like the United Arab Emirates and Canada hosting several bilateral and multilateral ODI series involving the two teams. Players in both teams routinely face intense pressure to win, and are threatened by extreme reactions in defeat. Extreme fan reactions to defeats in key matches such as in the ICC Cricket World Cup have been recorded, with a limited degree of violence and public disturbances. At the same time, India-Pakistan cricket matches have also offered opportunities for cricket diplomacy as a means to improve relations between the two countries by allowing heads of state to exchange visits and cricket followers from either country to travel to the other to watch the matches.

ICC Cricket World Cup, 4th Match, Pool B: India v Pakistan at Adelaide, Feb 15, 2015

India Squad / Teams
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, STR Binny, S Dhawan, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, Mohammed Shami, AR Patel, AM Rahane, SK Raina, AT Rayudu, MM Sharma, RG Sharma, UT Yadav

Pakistan Squad / Teams
Misbah-ul-Haq*, Ahmed Shehzad, Ehsan Adil, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Rahat Ali, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Khan, Umar Akmal†, Wahab