Pakistani fans are inflating their importance as usual.
While it is true that both Afghanistan and Bangladesh have beef with Pakistan and for good reason, the huge gulf between Pakistan and India today means that beating India is more important to teams like Bangladesh and Afghanistan because it will be a far greater achievement.
And if it is not more important than it should be. Pakistan is a nothing team today. On the other hand, beating India in India especially in Test cricket remains the toughest challenge in the game.
Afghanistan and Bangladesh must be bonkers to consider winning a Test in Pakistan a bigger achievement than winning a Test in India in 2020.
As far as England is concerned, they do not have a rivalry with either India or Pakistan, but because India is miles ahead of Pakistan now, beating India is a bigger deal.
Nasser and Atherton’s cheerleading and weird obsession with Pakistan side, if you ask Joe Root today to pick between winning a Test series in India or winning a Test series in Pakistan, he will pick India every single time.
When England got whitewashed in UAE in early 2012 and then beat India in India at the end of 2012, no one apart from Pakistani fans cared about the UAE whitewash, because as far as performances in Asia are concerned, India away is the only series that truly matters.
The perception of how teams like England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand perform in Asia are only dependent on how they do in India.
They can thump Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka away but if they get hammered in India, the Indian series will determine their image as a touring team.
Similarly, they can lose badly in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, but if they conquer India, those other defeats will become irrelevant.
That is the reality. Pakistani fans will obviously not like it because the huge gulf between the status of Pakistan and India is hurtful, but there is no avoiding the truth.