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Sourav Ganguly (proper) in motion towards Shoaib Akhtar.© AFP
A brand new chapter is ready to be added within the long-standing cricket rivalrly between India and Pakistan as the 2 groups play towards one another in a Champions Trophy sport on February 23 in Dubai. Arch-rivals India and Pakistan do not play bilaterals ever because the 2012-13 sequence because of the elevated political tensions between them. This makes a match between the 2 sides uncommon and much-more particular. Solely ICC occasions and Asia Cup are the tournaments the place the 2 groups are seen towards one another and the craze among the many followers for the video games is simply incomparable.
Forward of India’s upcoming match towards Pakistan, Netflix is ready to launch a cricket documentary sequence “The Greatest Rivalry – India vs Pakistan”. It can premiere on February 7. Week forward of the discharge, the over-the-top (OTT) platform shared a glimpse of what’s within the field.
Within the shared trailer, former India captain Sourav Ganguly recalled the 1996 Friendship Cup, a sequence of 5 matches between the arch-rivals in Canada.
“It was a Friendship tour only in name, but when Shoaib Akhtar is going to bowl at 150 kilometres an hour, where is the friendship in that?” Ganguly might be heared saying within the video.
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) January 29, 2025
The sequence goals to discover “the drama, passion and high-stakes intensity of this rivalry on the home soil of both nations.” It’s directed by Chandradev Bhagat and Stewart Sugg, knowledgeable Netflix in a press launch.
“The Greatest Rivalry” will narrate many untold tales of the primary India-Pakistan ODI match in addition to function interviews of former cricketers from the neighbouring international locations — Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar, Waqar Younis, Javed Miandad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shoaib Akhtar recalling their experiences and unveiling secrets and techniques, it stated.
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