This is a contest that never fails to raise the thrill level. It is unfortunate that India and Pakistan do not play each other in bilateral series anymore. Due to political differences, India has cut off all bilateral series with Pakistan. Now a day they meet in ICC competitions. The ICC ensures that the two teams are always in the same group to ensure that they mandatorily play each other.
These games create hysteria among the fans and bring in enormous amounts of sponsorship and TRP for all stakeholders. Prior to around 2006 when the India Pakistan relations turned sour, they used to play regularly. India had toured Pakistan in 2004 for a test and ODI series. It was in this series that Virender Sehwag had scored a triple century.
In recent years, India has played a home series against Pakistan which involved ODIs and T20s and it took place in 2012. As pointed above, the only cricketing between these two nations happens through the ODI and T20 formats thanks to the ICC events.
The two countries have not played a Test in nearly 15 years. However, the white ball encounters keep happening. We look at the top 5 run-getters for India against Pakistan in white-ball cricket
1. Sachin Tendulkar
He holds the pole position on this list and has scored a mountain of runs against Pakistan. He has in total scored 2526 runs in 69 matches (67 innings). He has played the highest number of ODIs against Pakistan and averages around 40. His highest score is 141, which he made in Rawalpindi in 2004. He also has scored the most number of fours against Pakistan at 294.
2. Rahul Dravid
Not to be behind Sachin in any list, Dravid sits at the second position in this list. With 2403 runs in 58 ODIs for India against Pakistan, he has a decent average of 36.51. In his 55 innings, Rahul has brought up 2 centuries and 14 half-centuries. His best against Pakistan came in 1997 in Chennai when he scored 107.
3. Mohammad Azharuddin
The man from Hyderabad takes third place on this list. His career may be marred with unsavory moments but he does have multiple records to his name. He has scored 1657 runs in 64 matches with a healthy average of 31.86. Azhar has scored 2 hundred and 9 fifties against them. His best against Pakistan came in Toronto in 1998 when he got 101. He has remained not out 7 times against them.
4. Sourav Ganguly
Arguably India’s first dominating and angry captain, Ganguly is frequently called the god of off-side. He has scored 1652 runs against Pakistan in 53 matches and averages 35. Ganguly gave his best performance against Pakistan in 2000 at Adelaide Oval, 141 runs 0ff 144 balls.
5. Yuvraj Singh
Yuvi has accumulated 1360 runs against Pakistan in ODIs after playing 38 games against them at an average of 42.50. he has got these runs at a phenomenal strike rate of 93. He scored an unbeaten 107 against Pakistan in Karachi in 2007. In T20, Yuvraj has scored 116 runs in 5 games against Pakistan at an average of 29 and the highest score of 72.
