Colombo: Clashes between India and Pakistan are always a “high intensity” game but the current team does not think about the T20 World Cup because there are many cricketes left before the Marquee event, said the experienced sailor Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan on Friday are placed in the same group for the T20 World Cup as an ICC announced a pond for its flagship program, arranged to be played in the UAE and Oman from October 17 to November 14.
“Look, it’s always fun to play against Pakistan and it’s always a compatibility of pressure, so of course it will happen, you know, high intensity matches,” Bhuvneshwar, who is currently in Sri Lanka because the serial is limited, telling a virtual press conference , “But to be honest, we haven’t really thought about it, how it will happen, because we have a lot of cricket left, we have a match in Sri Lanka, of course trials in England and then IPL and then the World Cup.” India and Pakistan are placed in Group 2 together with the winner of the Championship World Test New Zealand and Afghanistan.
“But so of course the IPL ends, we will start thinking about it (World Cup),” said the 31-year-old Meerut Pacer.
The Super 12 group has been selected based on the team ranking on March 20, according to the International Cricket Council.
Two teams will join each group from the qualifying round.
The initial tournament was scheduled to be held in India but was transferred abroad because the third wave of the expected Coronavirus.