To those who keep bringing up the 2012/2013 series in India:
They were in transition at that point. Not only did we beat them in the ODI series, they also lost a Test series at home to England. Time was up for the generation that was on a run after 2006 and reached its peak by 2010-2011 to win the World Cup.
However, by 2013, their time was up and they were a spent force collectively and individually.
2012/2013 was the perfect time to tour India - the likes of Sehwag, Gambhir, Tendulkar etc. were over the hill and their younger players had not really stepped up.
Prior to the ODI series against us, the selectors dropped Tendulkar and the likes of Sehwag and Gambhir were walking wickets against the new ball.
In the middle-order, they had Yuvraj who was a shell of his former self after cancer treatment, and Rohit who was very mediocre in the middle-order before his transformation as a legendary opener.
In bowling, they had recently lost Zaheer Khan and were yet to replace him. The were playing with the likes of Dinda, and Bhuvneshwar and Shami made their debuts in that very series.
That Indian team was in shambles. It was Dhoni and Kohli, and the latter was obviously not at the peak of his powers.
Pakistan on the other hand had better resources. Nasir Jamshed was having his 2012 purple patch and hit two hundreds, while Ajmal was at the peak of his chucking and Junaid was also in the midst of his 2012-2013 purple patch. Irfan was also very good in that period.
It was simply our good fortune that we toured them at the perfect time. They revamped their squad after that series, opened with Rohit and Dhawan, brought in new pacers and became an elite team again.
On the other hand, we went downhill from there.
If Pakistan vs India would have been an annual affair in the last decade, our superior H2H record would have been severely dented.
2012/2013 was pretty much the only period in the last decade where we could have won a series against them. They would have smashed us in the last 3-4 years and Asia Cup like humiliation would have been the norm, with us winning one-off games every now and then like the Champions Trophy Final.
People need to have some perspective and get a grip of reality after the reality check in the Asia Cup.
The fact is that India are at a different level and has been for about 10 years now, barring a small period of transition where we beat them. They will beat us more often than not - the gap between the skills of the two teams as well as the mentality is very significant.
It is our great fortune that India is not willing to play Pakistan regularly in bilaterals because their resistance has saved us frequent humiliations, but the narrative that we have cooked up for ourselves is that they fear us.
Yes, we saw the “fear” in the Asia Cup. Let’s not be ostriches anymore and learn from that brutal reality check. That was the true picture of Pakistan vs India today, as well as the group game in the Champions Trophy.
9 out of 10 times, they will thrash us across formats. However, our fans so deep in their denial that they are brushing off the Asia Cup, where they outclassed us with only two batsmen, as a mere blip in the radar. The actual blip in the radar was the Champions Trophy Final.
It is great to be supportive of the team and expecting good things, but never lose sight of reality. What you hope and dream of is not what happens in real life.
India are leagues above Pakistan and it is a fact that we cannot deny, regardless of how much it stings us.
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after the hammering in the Asia Cup so yes Pakistan 
is better than India in T20
