Pakistan enters the tournament as defending champions having won the previous edition of the Champions Trophy in 2017, defeating India in the final. While Pakistan has won the tournament once, India has won twice: in 2013 and in 2002,

Cricket’s fiercest rivals will lock horns in a battle that will prove pivotal to the pair’s ICC Champions Trophy aspirations.

There was a time in the 1980s and 1990s when Indian fans dreaded the prospect of playing Pakistan outside World Cups, and especially in Sharjah. Pakistan were a veritable powerhou