There was this amazing ad that caught everyone’s attention – no not the #dettol ad – the Star Sports IndvPak #Mauka ad. And after India fantastic win, its 6-0 against Pakistan for India. This of course sparked hundreds of memes with the character looking solemnly at his box of fire crackers. Star Sports has been quick in releasing the second Mauka ad – the one with #IndvSA. Watch it here
After the euphoria to maintain the record against Pakistan, it’s time to break another record. Thanks to this #Mauka ad, everyone interested in cricket (and not) know that India has played SA thrice in the World Cup. And never won.
Here’s something more –
- In all the WC matches vs SA, India have batted first
- In Melbourne, where India play SA, India have had 8 wins out of 18 innings
- 3 have come batting first, 5 batting second
- In Melbourne, SA have 7 wins out of 9 innings
- All of them have been batting second
Stats suggest that SA’s strength clearly is in chasing – at least against India in WC as well as at Melbourne. Ditto for India at #Melbourne. And since India have never played SA at Melbourne, so there’s no record of these teams performance against each other at this ground.
Statistically speaking, if we want to make most of this #Mauka, we need to bat second. We do have a good chasing unit – some of Kohli’s best performances are chasing, Dhoni is a great finisher – betweeen these two, on a good day – we can make it. But statistics don’t really matter when it comes to the game. The better team on that day will win. Yesterday, we were the better team. Will we be the one on next Sunday?
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