In the year 2025, many cricket matches took place between India and Pakistan. From Champions Trophy to Asia Cup and Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, both the teams came face to face, but every time Team India defeated Pakistan. The Indian team also won the title of Asia Cup 2025 by defeating Pakistan. Are India-Pak matches going to be held in the year 2026 also, if yes, then how many times will both the countries come face to face. Know the dates of all the matches here.

Let us tell you that in cricket, India and Pakistan now come face to face only in big events. Due to poor political relations, no bilateral series has been played between India and Pakistan for a long time.

How many times will India-Pakistan match take place in 2026?

Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup: Many big cricket events will be played in the year 2026. The Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup will be played from 15 January to 6 February. India and Pakistan have been placed in different groups, so India and Pakistan can come face to face in the knockout matches of the Under-19 World Cup.

Men’s T20 World Cup: After this, the Men’s T20 World Cup will be played from 7 February to 8 March. India and Pakistan have been placed in Group A along with Namibia, Netherlands, USA. In this World Cup, the match between India and Pakistan will be played on 15 February. Apart from this, India-Pakistan match is also possible in the Super-8 stage and thereafter in the knockout matches of T20 World Cup.

Women’s T20 World Cup: Women’s T20 World Cup will be played from June 12-July 5. In this group, 6 teams including India and Pakistan have been placed in Group A. The World Cup match of India vs Pakistan women’s cricket teams will be played on 14 June.

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Team India’s no-handshake policy with Pakistani players has been going on since Asia Cup 2025. Almost three months have passed since the Asia Cup ended, but the fire of this controversy is not getting extinguished. Now Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has stoked the spark of no-handshake controversy.

Mohsin Naqvi told the media in Lahore that if Team India does not want to shake hands, then Pakistani players will also not show any interest in doing so.

Mohsin Naqvi said, “Even today our thinking is the same. Today the Prime Minister himself told me twice that we should not let politics come in the way of all this. Our views from the first day have been that cricket and politics should be separate.”

Mohsin Naqvi’s bad words

Mohsin Naqvi further said, “If they (Indian players) do not want to shake hands, then we too have no interest in doing so. Whatever happens, it will be on the same level with India. You will see that we will do the same in future also. It cannot be that they do something and we step back. This will not happen at all.”

The policy of no-handshake in matches between India and Pakistan has been going on for many months. Since Asia Cup 2025, Indian players have avoided shaking hands with Pakistani players. Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav did not tie the knot with Pakistan captain Salman Aga in the Asia Cup. After that, even in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, the Indian team did not join hands with Pakistani players.

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A Pakistani player has been banned indefinitely for wearing an Indian jersey and hoisting the Indian tricolor. This Pakistani player is being discussed all over the world. In fact, Pakistan’s international Kabaddi player Ubaidullah Rajput has been indefinitely banned by the national federation for representing the Indian team in a private tournament earlier this month.

Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) banned Rajput after an emergency meeting on Saturday. He was found guilty of playing in the tournament and traveling abroad without obtaining the mandatory No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the federation or other concerned authorities. PKF secretary Rana Sarwar said Rajput has the right to appeal before the disciplinary committee.

Pakistan Kabaddi Federation has imposed ban on Pakistani player Ubaidullah Rajput for representing Indian team in Bahrain Kabaddi Cup. Rajput has right to appeal but disciplinary committee is unlikely to grant any relief#Kabaddi #PakistanKabaddi pic.twitter.com/bA2t7Av3ze

— Shakeel Khan Khattak (@ShakeelktkKhan) December 27, 2025

Sarwar said the federation took serious note of the fact that Rajput not only traveled abroad without an NOC, but also represented an Indian team, ,Wore his jersey and on one occasion draped the Indian flag over his shoulders after winning a match. But he (Rajput) has claimed that it was a complete misunderstanding and he was not told that the team he would play for in this private tournament would be the Indian team, Sarwar said. But still he is guilty of violating NOC rules.,

Videos and pictures of Rajput wearing the Indian jersey and waving the Indian flag during the GCC Cup went viral on social media, after which he got into trouble. Sarwar said that other players have also been banned and fined for participating in this competition without taking NOC.

Rajput had earlier apologized and said that he was invited to participate in the competition played in Bahrain and he was part of a private team. He said, ,But I later came to know that he had named the team ‘Indian Team’. I told the organizers not to use the names of India and Pakistan. In the past, Indian and Pakistani players have played together for private teams in private competitions, but those teams were not named after India or Pakistan. I was given wrong information.,

In the year 2025, big events like Champions Trophy, World Test Championship final and Asia Cup took place. The Ashes series has also become the center of discussion in the last weeks of the year. From India vs Pakistan match in Asia Cup 2025 to Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, many controversial moments were seen. Even after the conclusion of IPL 2025, a big controversy had arisen this year. Before entering the new year, here is a look at the five biggest controversies that were seen this year.

Stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

In the final of IPL 2025, RCB won the trophy for the first time by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs. After that, a program was to be organized at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru to celebrate the team’s victory. Due to this, a large number of fans had gathered outside the stadium, but due to the huge crowd, a stampede broke out, in which 11 people lost their lives and about 30 people were injured. After that incident, till now Chinnaswamy Stadium has not got permission to organize any competitive match.

no handshake controversy

India and Pakistan came face to face three times in Asia Cup 2025. When their first clash took place on September 14, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav did not shake hands with Pakistani captain Salman Aga at the time of the toss. Even after winning the match, Team India went straight to the dressing room and did not come out to shake hands with the Pakistani players. This trend of not shaking hands continued in the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 and other multilateral tournaments thereafter.

Team India refused to go to Pakistan

Champions Trophy 2025 was hosted by Pakistan, but several weeks before the start of the tournament, a question had arisen whether Team India would go to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy or not. There was a lot of uproar regarding this topic on social media. In the end, an agreement was reached between BCCI and PCB to hold Team India’s matches at neutral venues. A condition was also laid in it that the Pakistani team will not come to India in future for multilateral events to be held in India. Therefore, in recent times, matches of both the teams have been held at neutral venues.

Haris Rauf’s 6-0 and fighter jet gesture

During the Asia Cup, Haris Rauf was in the news for his 6-0 and the gesture of shooting down a fighter jet. Haris’ 6-0 gesture was pointing towards Pakistan Army’s claim in which it had shot down 6 Indian fighter jets during Operation Sindoor and not a single jet of its own was destroyed.

Mohsin Naqvi ran away with the trophy

India defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets in the final of Asia Cup 2025. But after that Team India refused to take the trophy from the hands of PCB and ACC Chairman Mohsin Naqvi. Due to this, the presentation ceremony started late by one and a half hour. In the end Naqvi did not give up his stubbornness and ran away from the field with the trophy. The Indian team has not yet received the trophy, which is still with Mohsin Naqvi.

IND vs PAK Head-To-Head 2025: The clash between India and Pakistan on the cricket field is always considered special. The year 2025 was also very memorable in this respect, because throughout this year the teams of both the countries came face to face several times in senior, junior and women’s cricket. There was excitement in every match, but in terms of results, India had the upper hand over Pakistan in 2025.

India’s dominance in senior cricket

In 2025, the senior men’s teams of India and Pakistan clashed four times and India won all four matches. Both the teams first faced each other in the Champions Trophy 2025, where India made its intentions clear by defeating Pakistan by 6 wickets. After this, three matches were played between the two teams in Asia Cup 2025. India won by 7 wickets in the group stage, then defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets in the Super-4. The final of Asia Cup was also played between the two teams, in which India played brilliantly under pressure and won the title by defeating Pakistan by 5 wickets.

Effort to equalize at A and Under-19 level

However, Pakistan also got success in the matches of Junior and A teams. In the group match between India A and Pakistan A in the Rising Star Asia Cup, Pakistan A won by 8 wickets. In the Under-19 Asia Cup, the Under-19 teams of India and Pakistan came face to face twice. In the group stage, India Under-19 defeated Pakistan Under-19 by 90 runs. However, in the final, Pakistan Under-19 made a strong comeback and defeated India by a huge margin of 191 runs and won the title.

Who is ahead in women’s cricket?

India-Pakistan competition was also seen in women’s cricket. In the group stage match of Women’s World Cup 2025, the Indian women’s team performed brilliantly and defeated Pakistan by 88 runs. With this victory, India’s dominance in women’s cricket was clearly visible.

Full account of 2025

A total of 8 matches were played between India and Pakistan in the year 2025. Out of these, India won 6 matches, while Pakistan had only 2 wins in its account. That means overall this year was in the name of India. Now the eyes of cricket fans are fixed on 2026, where India and Pakistan will face each other for the first time in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. This match will be played in Sri Lanka on 15th February and once again the biggest cricket match will be seen between the two countries.

What happened after the end of the final match of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025, brought politics into discussion more than sports. The reason became the final of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025, in which the runner-up Indian team refused to take the medal from the hands of Mohsin Naqvi during the medal ceremony. This entire incident was seen on Sunday, 21 December, which once again exposed the tension present in India-Pakistan cricket relations.

Distance from medal ceremony, question raised again

Usually, after the end of the final match, both the teams go to the podium, but this time the Indian team chose a different path. Indian players did not reach the stage and collected their runner-up medals from International Cricket Council (ICC) Associate Member Director Mubashir Usmani. On the other hand, ACC President Mohsin Naqvi handed over the trophy to the Pakistan team and was seen celebrating with them on the stage.

This is not the first time that the Indian team has refused to accept honor from Mohsin Naqvi. Earlier this year, in the final of the Senior Men’s Asia Cup, the Indian team had refused to accept the winning trophy from them. At that time India had become the champion and Pakistan was the runner-up.

The echo of the old dispute was heard again

During the Senior Asia Cup, the trophy ceremony also started with a delay of about an hour. At that time Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Interior Minister of Pakistan, had refused to hand over the trophy to any other official. Not only this, Naqvi later brought the trophy with himself to the ACC headquarters. BCCI was angry with this decision and the matter reached ACC and ICC, but till now the trophy has not been handed over to India.

It is believed that the Indian Cricket Board is taking such decisions due to Naqvi’s anti-India social media activities and political tension between the two countries.

Pakistan’s big victory in the final

Talking about the final of Under-19 Asia Cup, in this match played in ODI format, Pakistan defeated India in a one-sided manner by 191 runs. Sameer Minhas played a brilliant inning of 172 runs for Pakistan and the team scored 347 runs.

In reply, the Indian team could not survive despite a fast start. Runs were scored in the initial overs, but due to continuous fall of wickets the entire team was reduced to 156 runs in just 26.2 overs. Pakistan’s fast bowlers Ali Raza, Mohammad Syam and Abdul Subhan performed brilliantly.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has once again been insulted. The final match of Under-19 Asia Cup 2025 was played in Dubai on Sunday, 21 December, in which Pakistan team defeated India by a huge margin of 191 runs. After the match was over, the players of Team India refused to take the medal from Naqvi’s hands. Mohsin Naqvi gave the Under-19 Asia Cup trophy to the Pakistan team with his own hands and then also posed for photographs with the champion team.

Mohsin Naqvi’s insult

Let us tell you that Mohsin Naqvi had reached Dubai during the final match itself to be a part of the presentation ceremony. Naqvi first gave medals to the players of the champion team and then handed over the trophy to Pakistan captain Farhan Yusuf. After this, the Indian players completely ignored Mohsin Naqvi by deciding not to go on the podium. Medals were presented to the Indian team by another official.

The trend of Indian players ignoring Mohsin Naqvi has been going on since the 2025 Men’s Senior Asia Cup. Indian players did not shake hands with Pakistani players in that entire tournament. At the same time, when Team India became the champion by defeating Pakistan in the final, then the Indian team refused to take the Asia Cup trophy from the hands of Mohsin Naqvi. Naqvi still has that trophy.

Pakistan became champion for the first time

This is the first time in the last 36 years that Pakistan has won the Under-19 Asia Cup. Pakistan has been the runner-up of this tournament twice, but in 2025 it has achieved the title of being Asian champion for the first time. In the final, Pakistan, playing first, had scored a huge score of 347 runs, but in reply, Team India was all out for just 156 runs.

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Pakistan has defeated India by 191 runs in the Under-19 Asia Cup final. This is the second time that Pakistan has won the Under-19 Asia Cup title. In this match played in Dubai, Pakistan team had scored 347 runs while playing first, in response to this, Team India was limited to only 156 runs. From batting to bowling, the Indian team was a flop. Know here due to which three big reasons India lost the final match.

1. Sameer did not break Minhas first

In the final match, Pakistan’s opener Sameer Minhas played a historic inning of 172 runs in 113 balls. Minhas was already in good form, he had played an inning of 177 runs in the same tournament. He had scored 299 runs in 4 innings before the final match. The Indian team management should have made special preparations against Minhas in advance, but the Indian bowlers were badly beaten against him.

2. Indian batting collapsed under pressure

Indian bowling was a flop in the final match, due to which Pakistan team was able to reach a huge score of 347 runs. After that the batsmen had to bat in a strong and composed manner. But within no time Team India had lost 3 wickets by the time it reached the score of 49. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was out after scoring 26 runs and captain Ayush Mhatre was out after scoring 2 runs. In-form batsmen like Vihaan Malhota and Abhigyan Kundu also lost their wickets in a pressure-packed match.

3. Should have won the toss and batted

The history of the Under-19 Asia Cup has been that chasing the final has never been easy. Before this, Under-19 Asia Cup was played 11 times, in which only 2 times the chasing team was victorious. Despite a poor chasing record in the final, India won the toss and chose to bowl first. There is a different pressure of chasing in the final, under which Team India collapsed.

4. Pakistani pace attack proved costly

Indian batting started fading in front of Pakistan’s pace attack. The Indian team was all out for just 156 runs and all the wickets for Pakistan were taken by the fast bowlers. Especially Ali Raza bowled 6.2 overs and took four wickets. Whereas Mohammad Sayyam, Abdul Subhan and Huzaifa Ahsan took two wickets each. All of them are fast bowlers.

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Pakistan has become the new champion of Under-19 Asia Cup. Pakistan defeated India by 191 runs in the final of 2025 Under-19 Asia Cup. In the title match, after playing first, Pakistan had scored 347 runs thanks to the stormy century of Sameer Minhas. In response, Team India was all out for only 156 runs. All the stars including Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre were flops.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi was out for India in the final after scoring 26 runs in 10 balls. Captain Ayush Mhatre could score only two runs. Six Indian players could not touch double figures. Deepesh Devendran, who came at number 10, scored the most runs. He played an inning of 36 runs in 16 balls. In bowling for Pakistan, Ali Raza took 4 wickets for 42 runs. Apart from this, Mohammad Sayam, Abdul Subhan and Huzaifa Ehsan took two wickets each.

India had a very bad start, all the stars flopped

The Indian team, which came to chase the huge target of 348 runs from Pakistan, had a very bad start. India’s first wicket fell on the score of 32 in the third over. Ayush Mhatre was out after scoring two runs in seven balls. Then Aaron George left after scoring 16 runs in 9 balls. After this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi was out after scoring 26 runs in 10 balls with the help of one four and 3 sixes.

No top order Indian batsman batted steadily. Everyone was out in the pursuit of scoring runs quickly. Vedant Trivedi was out after scoring 9 runs in 14 balls, Abhigyan Kundu after scoring 13 runs in 20 balls, Kanishk Chauhan after scoring 9 runs in 23 balls and Khilan Patel was out after scoring 19 runs in 23 balls. After this Henil Patel 6 and Deepesh Devendran 36 returned to the pavilion.

Sameer Minhas played an inning of 172 runs

Earlier in batting, opener Sameer Minhas played a brilliant inning of 172 runs in 113 balls for Pakistan. During this period, 17 fours and 9 sixes came from his bat. In the final, Sameer completed his century in just 71 balls. Thanks to Sameer’s stormy batting, Pakistan scored 347 runs for 7 wickets in 50 overs in the title match.

The bat of India’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav has been silent for a long time. Suryakumar could score only 34 runs in the five-match T20 series against South Africa. This year no half-century came from his bat. Meanwhile, he is being continuously questioned about his poor form. Once again Suryakumar has responded regarding his form. This statement of Surya is going viral on social media.

Responding to news agency PTI, Suryakumar Yadav said, “My 14 soldiers are protecting me. They know what will happen when I explode. I am very positive and working hard, and I am sure all of you will do the same.” This statement of Surya is becoming quite viral on social media. Fans are sharing it a lot.

Only 34 runs in 4 innings against South Africa

Suryakumar Yadav could score only 34 runs in four innings of the five-match T20 series against South Africa. Suryakumar was out after scoring 12 runs in the first match of the series against South Africa. After the first T20 played in Cuttack, his form remained poor in New Chandigarh also. In the second T20 match, he was out after scoring 5 runs. After this, he could score only 12 runs in the third T20 match played in Dharamshala. After this, he scored only five runs in the fifth T20 match.

Year 2025 was like this for Suryakumar

The year 2025 has been no less than a nightmare for Suryakumar Yadav. This year, the batting average of India’s T20 captain was less than 14. He could score only 218 runs in 21 innings. Suryakumar could not score a single half-century in 2025. However, in IPL 2025, a lot of runs were scored from Suryakumar’s bat.