Two Arch rivals India and Pakistan resuming cricket slogfest almost after 5 years. One of the biggest matches after the world cup 2011 one can say. This match of 25th dec 2012 is also the first match after Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has announced his retirement from One day International. One thing we will surely miss in this match and matches after this is Sachin Tendulkar. Both the teams has many new faces and these new players are playing for the first time against Pakistan. if we see the history of Ind vs Pak in T20, they have played 3 matches and all the matches have been won by India only. Bhuvneswar Kumar and Ravindra Jadeja are the two new faces from team India. Talking to the toss, Pakistan won the toss and elected to field. Ajinkya Rahane and Gautam Gambhir came first for batting and Mohd Irfan (tallest cricketer ever 7.1' ) with the first ball.
Pachisi, Chausar, Chopad or popularly known as Ludo is an ancient Indian game, which per some historians Mughal Emperor Akbar was addicted to and used to play with real people instead of plastic buttons or plastic statue miniatures, the game has now become a strategy game and are taught at business schools. On August 29, 1891, Alfred Collier had applied for a patent in England, claiming that a board game, which he named Royal Ludo, was his invention. Since then the game became popular worldwide by the name we know today. Later on, the British Royal Navy converted it into a board game called ‘Uckers’. According to some historians this board game of Ludo or pachisi originates in India as far back as 3300 BC. The exact origins of this legendary game though seems uncertain, but some earliest proofs of this game comes from the historic Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, where the board game was depicted in the form illustrations on the wall. This seems to suggest that Ludo was an Indian creation.