Former fielding coach R Sridhar feels the better standards of the men in blue have played a crucial role in their success over Pakistan...
Pakistani pacers Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Aaqib Javed invoked a sense of fear among Indian batsmen in the late 1980s and early 90s. Pakistan's batting department, with the likes of Saeed Anwar, Aamir Sohail and Javed Miandad, also had the wood over the Indian bowlers during that period. But one area of the game in which the Indians always had an upper hand in Indo-Pak contests was the fielding.