Compelling history of India v Pakistan in T20 World Cup

All roads will lead to New York on Sunday when India take on arch rivals and 2022 finalists Pakistan in the biggest game of the T20 World Cup.

The high-voltage clash has been scheduled in the Big Apple to give the sport the biggest possible push in the American market that is witnessing its first world cricket event.

Adding to the drama is Pakistan's shock Super Over defeat to the USA, competing in their debut tournament, which has thrown Group A wide open.

Safe to say, the stakes could not be any higher at the Nassau County Stadium this weekend.

As we gear up for the big match on Sunday, we look back at the seven clashes between the rivals at the T20 World Cup.

Result: Match tied, India won bowl-out

The game that got an entire generation hooked to T20 cricket. The group match at Kingsmead was a low-scoring thriller, with both sides tied on 141 after regulation time. It was the inaugural T20 World Cup and everyone was just getting used to the format.

Very few thought of the possibility of a tie and what would be needed next. At that time, organisers had put together a radical concept to decide the winners – a bowl-out in which five bowlers from each side target the stumps and the team to get the most hits after five deliveries would win (what fun!).

In the bowl-out, India nominated non-regular bowlers while Pakistan went for regular ones. Turns out the Indians had trained specifically for such a scenario and had found non-regular bowlers who simply rolled their arm over almost always hit the stumps. India hit three out of three while Pakistan missed all their chances. T20 cricket had arrived on the world stage in the most emphatic fashion.

Result: India won by 5 runs

Considered to be the game that changed cricket