Suryakumar Yadav celebrates with teammates after the wicket of Pakistan’s Mohammad Nawaz in the course of the Asia Cup 2025 Super Four match between India and Pakistan, in Dubai, UAE. | Photo Credit: PTI

Having crushed Pakistan with consummate ease within the Asia Cup Super 4 match, Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav on Sunday (September 21, 2025) urged everybody to cease calling the contests between the 2 nations a significant “rivalry.”

India and Pakistan have confronted one another 15 occasions in T20Is, with the reigning world champions profitable 12 of these encounters, and within the newest occasion the Suryakumar-led facet received by six wickets.

When a senior Pakistani journalist requested if the gulf in requirements between the 2 sides had grown too huge, Suryakumar responded with a smile, “Sir, my request is that we should always now cease calling India vs Pakistan matches a rivalry.”

When the scribe clarified that he was referring to “requirements, not rivalry,” the Indian skipper quipped nonchalantly.

“Sir, rivalry and customary are all the identical. Now what’s a rivalry? If two groups have performed 15 matches and it’s 8-7, that’s a rivalry. Here it’s 13-1 (12-3) or one thing. There isn’t any contest,” he mentioned earlier than strolling out of the media convention room with a smile.

Published – September 22, 2025 04:20 am IST

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