HYDERABAD, India: Green Shirts are entering the cricket World Cup 2023 arena with a hope to make a successful start to their campaign when they take on minnows Netherlands at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium today.
Since arriving in the city late last month, which also marked the first landing of a Pakistan men’s side in India in seven years, the team has played two warm-up games besides made the training sessions to adjust in the city.
Pakistan are scheduled to play the first two of their nine league matches in Hyderabad. When Pakistan take on the Netherlands today, it will be the first time in a little less than 11 years that they will play an ODI on Indian soil. And to much interest, they have not played a single 50-over ODI in Hyderabad since 1987.
Head-to-head
The today’s meeting between Pakistan and the Netherlands would be the seventh time they face off in an 50-over international match. The two sides have faced off six times in the format since their first meeting in the 1996 in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and Pakistan have come out victorious on each occasion.
Pakistan toured the Netherlands last year in the first bilateral series between the two nations, and recorded a clean-sweep.
