7.28PM - ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST FOR PAKISTANPakistan are reeling at 2-22 after losing both their openers, first Babar Azam and now Mohammad Rizwan.The ball is hooping around corners for an impressive Indian fast bowling attack. And the Pakistan batters clearly appear uncomfortable in front of almost 100,000 fans at the MCG. 7.10PM - PAKISTAN’S MAIN MAN OUT FOR DUCKThe worst possible start for Pakistan. It’s 1-1 at a heaving MCG with Pakistan’s great batting hope Babar Azam out lbw for a duck. Indian left-armer Arshdeep Singh took the key scalp with his first ever ball in World Cup cricket. 6.38PM - INDIA TO BOWL FIRSTIndia is backing their their packed batting line-up to chase down a total, with captain Rohit Sharma winning the toss and electing to bowl.  Pakistan captain Babar Azam said he would also have opted to field first. He earmarked a score of 160-170 on the massive MCG surface. India XI: R Sharma (c), K L Rahul, V Kohli, S Yadav, D Karthik (wk), H Pandya, A Patel, R Ashwin, A Singh, B Kumar, M Shami. Pakistan XI: B Azam (c), M Rizwan (wk), S Masood, H Ali, I Ahmed, A Ali, S Khan, M Nawaz, S Afridi, N Shah, H Rauf.6.30PM - BREAKING: MELBOURNE IS PUMPING!Absolute scenes at the MCG for the sold out clash. 5.53PM - WEATHER SET TO HOLDDespite dire weather predictions, tonight’s clash is set to go ahead in full. Current conditions in Melbourne are fine. Rain is not set to hit until midnight, about 1.5 hours after the predicted finish time. 5.40PM - BLOCKBUSTER TO SMASH RECORDSTonight’s sold-out T20 World Cup MCG clash between arch rivals India and Pakistan is tipped to deliver a major economic boost to the state.Over 92,000 people are expected to attend the marquee match which sold-out within 30 minutes when tickets for the went on sale in February earlier this year. The largest crowd for a cricket match at the ground was when 93,013 fans packed the stadium for the ODI World Cup final in 2015.The MCG will host seven T20 World Cup matches including the Grand Final.“It is extraordinarily economically impactful,” Sports, Tourism and Major Events Minister Steve Dimopoulos said.“It is a direct economic benefit [with] literally the thousands of people who are sent here to spend money in the hotels, restaurants, bars and retail shops.”The government said the sporting and entertainment sector is continuing its financial recovery from the pandemic. Major events deliver $2.5 billion to the state every year.“We had four and a half million people attend major events from January to August this year,” Mr Dimopoulos added.Follow India v Pakistan live “It’s absolutely powerful coming out of two years we have had…it is really important economically and also culturally how we position ourselves for the future.”Considered one of sport’s greatest rivalries, India and Pakistan have only ever played against each other in major tournaments since 2013 due to strained political relations between the two neighbouring countries.This week the Indian cricket team ruled out travelling to Pakistan for the Asia Cup next year.“These teams don’t meet very often, we have got fans coming from all over the world for this match,” CEO of the men’s ICC T20 World Cup 2022 Michelle Enright said.“You are going to experience something really unique…it is all happening at the G.”Long live the King: What Kohli critics have wrong — Julian Linden So much for the theory that Virat Kohli had lost his touch.It wasn’t that long ago that the unthinkable was happening in Indian cricket.Whispers about King Kohli’s form were growing louder by the day, to the point that cricket-crazy fans in the world’s most populated democracy were starting to wonder out loud whether it was the beginning of the end.By his own incredible standards, Kohli’s form had dropped, and there were real concerns about his inability to make the big scores he had always managed in the past.In a sport obsessed with numbers, the most damning statistic for the former Indian skipper was that up until last month, he hadn’t posted a single century for his country in any format of the game since 2019.In many ways, he was a victim of his own success. Compared to other mere mortals, his scores and contributions to the team weren’t bad, but because he had set the bar so high, it created the illusion of being a slump.Who will be the player of the tournament at the T20 World Cup?Then Kohli did what Kohli always does; something special.Last month, in a match against Sri Lanka in Dubai, he was bowled for a golden duck, reigniting the chatter about how much longer he had left.Then two days later, he provided his own reply, breaking his three-year century drought with a stylish 122 not out against Afghanistan.The opposition may not have been the strongest – although the Afghan bowling line-up did include the world’s No.1 ranked T20 spinner Rashid Khan – but his raw numbers were mind blowing.Kohli’s unbeaten 122 came off just 61 balls – a strike-rate of exactly 200 – and featured 12 fours and six sixes and was the highest ever individual score in a T20 international by an Indian batter.He’s since made 63 against Australia and 49 not out against South Africa to go into the World Cup to silence the doubters.India’s former captain and coach Ravi Shastri has seen first hand what Kohli can and is expecting him to bring his A game to the World Cup.“You’d be absolutely crazy to write him off because big players rise to the occasion in big tournaments and he‘ll be gee’d up more than anyone else,” Shastri said.“But I just hope he doesn’t overtry things or be overanxious. If he’s calm, he’s composed, he goes with the flow and in fact, he takes his time early on. I think you’ll see the best of Kohli.”Who will win the 2022 T20 World Cup?Shastri, who is working as an expert commentator for Kayo, says Kohli’s stats speak for themselves.In the 21 T20 World Cup matches he has played since 2012, Kohli has batted 19 times, scoring 10 half-centuries and averaging 76.8.The first and only Indian captain to win a Test series in Australia, he averages more than 64 in T20s in Australia, with five half-centuries from 10 trips to the crease.“He loves Australia because the pitches bounce and the ball comes on to the bat,” Shastri said. “He‘s also someone who’s feisty and loves the contests.”SCBBL PROMOShastri: Inside cricket’s greatest rivalry – Ravi ShastriIndian cricket legend Ravi Shastri knows better than most just how important matches between Indian and Pakistan are.As a former national captain and coach, Shastri has been in the thick of the action for decades.He knows the pressure on both teams to win is enormous and he’s experienced what it’s like to win and also what it’s like to lose.He also knows that the stakes only get higher when the teams meet at a World Cup which is why he’s predicting Sunday’s T20 World Cup clash at a packed Melbourne Cricket ground will be an epic contest.Who will win Sunday's World T20 blockbuster between Pakistan and India? Sunday’s clash is going to be massive because it’s the most anticipated match of the tournament, and not just in India.We have a lot of people, you know, we have 1.4 billion in India and around the globe, and they‘ll all be tuned in as will all the Pakistan fans.It‘s always been one of the most amazing matches because India and Pakistan don’t play each other that often so this was already going to be an event to look forward to but being a World Cup in Australia, it’s going to be a crackerjack of a game. It’s huge. As a player, when we played against them, as much as possible we’d always try to treat it like it’s just another game.That’s what we’ll keep telling the boys, and as a player yourself, you try to think that way, but the problem is, subconsciously, you’re not allowed to do.Whenever you go to an airport or you stay at a hotel, people pass you and they’re always telling you, ‘You’ve got to win this game’.They never say ‘enjoy the game’, it’s always ‘you’ve got to win’, so the pressure builds. If you’re staying in a hotel and there’s an Asian bloke serving you room service or something, the first thing he’ll tell you is ’you’ve got to win this one, you’ve got to win it’.So there‘s that constant reminder all the time, that this is the big game and that pressure will build and build if there’s a full house at the ’G.I‘ve been a recipient from both sides. In the seven years I was a coach, we never lost a game to Pakistan until the last World Cup, where we got smashed.We won in 2015. We won in ’16. We won in ’19. We won every Asia Cup and World Cup against them but the last one we lost and I’m telling you, there was a deafening silence in the dressing room, to say the least.We didn’t speak to each other for some time, at least two or three hours, maybe the next morning, that’s how much of an effect it can have.Yet on the other side, I remember in Australia in 2015, we played the first game of the (50-over World Cup) against Pakistan at Adelaide. We were staying near Adelaide Oval, and from 4am in the morning there were fans in the street with drums. I don’t think Adelaide had ever seen anything like that. They were drumming all the way on the streets, right up to Adelaide Oval and you had a crowd of over 40,000 people.Outside of Australia and England playing, I don’t think you would have seen a crowd like that, except maybe in the footy. It was massive. For the players, I think it‘s about handling the pressure and just being calm and composed. You need to insulate your mind from everything else and just focus on the job at hand. You need to understand your role and go out there fearlessly and execute it, because normally in matches like this, one team can be timid.But you don‘t want to be timid. You want to come out all guns blazing because these are two fabulous sides, especially if you look at the Indian batting line up, there is a lot of depth and it’ll be against Pakistan’s pace. So Pakistan’s pace attack against India’s batting. I think that’s the game as far as I’m concerned.The only place to see every ball of every match throughout the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup is on Fox Cricket, available live and ad-break free during play on Kayo Sports.New to Kayo Sports? Start your free trial today at www.kayosports.com.auUpdates to story