The most awaited match of this world cup, finally was played at Manchester on 16th June 2019 where Pakistan won the toss and elected to field. The stadium was glittering with blue and green colours and stadium was fully packed. Although,Shikhar Dhawan was absent,even then Rohit Sharma opened the innings with a style in form along with Lokesh Rahul his companion in masterclass. Both the openers, Rahul and Rohit shared an opening partnership of 136 with Lokesh Rahul scoring 57 off 78 balls and Rohit Sharma scoring 140 off just 113 deliveries hitting 3 massive sixers and 14 boundaries. After Rahul's departure VIRAT KOHLI came to the crease and started slaughtering the Pakistani bowling attack and ripped them apart hitting 77 runs. And after all the efforts, India put on a mammoth total of 336 for the loss of 5. When Pakistan came out to Bat in, Bhuvaneswar Kumar, India's strike bowler had to go back to the pavilion in his third over due to his hamstring injury and it looked like India is in deep trouble but cricket is the game of uncertainty. Vijay Shankar, on his first ball trapped Imam UL Haq, Leg before wicket LBW. After that, Fakhar Zaman and Baabar Azam tried to accelerate the scoring rate but failed to stand for against Indian bowlers, especially against Kuldeep Yadav who bowled out Baabar Azam for 48 and Zaman for 62. The last hopes for Pakistan were Hafeez and Shoib Malik, who couldn't stand for long before the speed of Hardik Pandya. Vijay Shankar clean bowled the skipper Sarfaraaz khan for 12 and India won easily by 89 runs. As remarkably India has won all 7 matches against Pakistan that have been played in the world cup history .