Your logic is expectedly illogical and predictable.
How you correlate matches in different tournaments over a span 3 years and come to a conclusion that the CT 17 final was a fluke is beyond laughable.
This is exactly why the CT was a fluke. That team lost 32 out of 40 ODIs after the CT and was ranked 8th before the CT.
It was a poor team that had everything going their way in three consecutive games which enabled them to lift the trophy. It was clearly a fluke.
If it wasn’t a fluke and they were worthy champions, they would have proved that with their dominance after the CT.
Pakistan were the team in transition with the likes of Babar, Asif ali, Shadab, Hassan Ali, Shaheen etc were new to the set up in that period and Fakhar made his Debut in CT17 in the semi s I believe.
When has Pakistan not been in transition? Pakistan has been rubbish since 2003 because once PCB moved on from the 90s generation, Pakistan has consistently struggled to put together a world class side which means they are always chopping and changing.
Pakistan is not good enough to have a settled side.
The indians had a seasoned established line up with the likes of sharma, dhawan, kohli, dhoni etc. so I dant know what planet your on.
Yes they had a settled team. A really good team who pounded Pakistan 4 out of the 5 times that they faced each other. Unfortunately for them, they had a collective disaster in the CT final but we have seen this in sport before and after.
A vastly superior team can lose to a vastly inferior team on a given day. It was a fluke result.
Your only objective was trying to make the indian performance look better.
My only objective is to explain why the CT win was a fluke result and why it is absurd to claim that that Pakistan side is one of the best white ball teams in Pakistan history.
Granted that Pakistan has a mediocre history, but even for Pakistan’s mediocre history, that team has absolutely no merit in terms of being ranked as one of Pakistan’s best ever sides.
It is like saying that the 2004 West Indies team was one of West Indies best ever ODI teams.
You know the overall stat head to head so I don't need to divulge any further.
I do, and I am sure you also know the head to head record in World Cups. Even the infamous Law of Averages is helpless against Pakistan’s lack of skill and talent vs India in World Cups.
As far has head to head is concerned, it means absolutely nothing because it is based on historic results. Pakistan were a better bilateral ODI team than India for most of its history and therefore, they achieved a positive head to head record.
However, that head to head record holds no value today because India is now a far stronger team than Pakistan.
Fans with a gloomy present and a dark future take pride in historic head to heads stats because they have nothing to look forward to and seek solace in nostalgic achievements and performances.
Even today, the West Indies enjoy a positive head to head record against most teams thanks to their dominance in the 70s and 80s, but it means nothing because they are crap today and couldn’t even qualify for the World Cup.
The reason the indian board refused and refuse to play Pakistan is that by playing regularly the players get use to one other and the element of surprise isn't there.
Firstly, it is not BCCI’s decision to not play Pakistan in bilateral cricket. It is the decision of the Indian government. Nevertheless, even if we debate the intricacies of who is taking the shots in terms of not playing Pakistan, the reason however is very clear.
The reason why India, government or board or both, doesn’t play Pakistan is because they don’t want Pakistan to make any money directly out of engagement with India.
PCB, and by extension Pakistan government, will generate billions of revenue through bilateral cricket with India. The lack of bilateral cricket between the two countries has incurred massive losses for Pakistan.
Is India also losing money by not playing Pakistan? Yes of course, but BCCI is already very rich and missing out on a few additional billions is a small price to play for causing severe financial damage to PCB.
Lack of bilateral cricket between the two countries hurts PCB financially much more than it hurts BCCI.
It has nothing to do with surprise factor. It is what our fans like to tell themselves to make themselves feel better.
There is no surprise element for either India or Pakistan. The Indian players have much more talent, skill and mentality than their Pakistani counterparts and they can play each other every single day and India would prevail 99% of the time with the odd upset every now and then.
I don't know where your delusion is coming from with your certainty of conveying an indian victory on Pakistani soil when Pakistan have been more successful in india than the other way round.
Again, historic head to head has zero relevance. Pakistan won plenty in India when they were stronger than India but today, India would wreck Pakistan in all formats home and away and also on neutral soil.