Pakistan vs. India matches will always inspire passions. But for Pakistan’s players, this is just another opportunity to do the cricketing things they train to do as professionals.

“For cricketers, this is a profession,” Javed said. “For them it’s definitely an honor. But it’s a profession. You try your best. In it you sometimes lose.

“In a Pakistan-India game, the energy remains high. And this is the beauty of this competition. What do the audience do? When you play well, the audience supports you, they clap their hands. When you play poorly, you have to be that India or Pakistan , the home crowd will go against you.

There is also a special focus on this game, because although Pakistan is the official hosts, they have had to travel to Dubai, where India has set up camp and has already played a match. There have been suggestions that it is India that enjoys the closest thing to the home advantage of this scenario. But Javed played these suggestions down.

Almost all of Pakistan’s home fixtures had been played in UAE between 2009 and 2019.

“There is no advantage [for India] At all, because if you look at all the Pakistani players, they have played leagues here. PSL has been played here. So there’s nothing – there’s no advantage or disadvantage. “

The surface of Dubai is expected to play slower and lower than in Pakistan, partly because oxygen20 has been played here for the past six weeks. Very few of the strips in the square are fresh surfaces.

“We also have to see the track and the earth here,” Javed said. “It looks like the one we have in Pakistan, or are they different? We want to play in accordance with the seats, conditions, and the opposition team.”