MS Dhoni led India to a win over Pakistan in the final of the T20 World Cup 2007- India and Pakistan had been knocked out of the first round of the 50-over World Cup just a few months ago, but came back strongly to give an exciting World T20 final with India finally winning a thriller.
India and Pakistan were drawn in the same opening group of the ICC World T20 in 2007 and played out one of the most thrilling games of the tournament. The match ended in a tie before India won in a bowl-out.
After a poor start to the Cricket World Cup 1992, where Pakistan were almost knocked out of the tournament, they went on to defeat England in the final to clinch their first ever World Cup win.
Of all the cricket World Cups played so far, it was in 2007 that not only there were two big upsets but the results also meant that the two more fancied sides crashed out of the tournament in the first round.
India and Pakistan, the two biggest rivals in the entire history of modern cricket came head to head in the 1998 Independence Cup Final in Bangladesh leading to a dramatic match involving both, controversy and great cricketing.