The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan

I was so excited to watch this but truely a dissapointed documentary. I felt as if only sehwag and shoaib akhtar led all India pakistan matches. Clearly missed out on some real good matches. Where was sachin, Kumble, V prasad, Amir sohail, afridi, saeed anwar... those were true legends of those era... A big big opportunity lost...on what could have been a series that could have brought our childhood memories back but i felt it didnt showcase relevant matches. Wish someone else would have directed this with some better juiciness that used to exist during the india pakistan matches. Was good in bits and pieces.

Many players are even shown very less or totally ignored. World Cup winners like Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, Kohli are totally ignored. Even legends like Sachin, Yuvi, Harbhajan, Zaheer khan, Ajit Agarkar, Azhruddin, Gautam Gambhir, Navjot Sidhu, Ajay Jadeja, Vengasarkar, Surya K Yadav and apne Ravi Shastri ji . And many more from even Pak too.

Big names like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma were totally missed. That what I call a incomplete picture. If you can consider R. Ashwin and Dhawan then why not these legends.

Kumble tool most wickets against Pak followed by J srinath. Players like Shoaib Malik and Suresh Raina are also not mentioned.

Only time India and Pakistan played each other in a world cup final match was the T20 world cup in 2007. But that has been given a total miss... it's just pure nonsense and highest level of stupidity to not show that... and its obviously because of someone's personal disliking for one of the India's greatest all time captain - Mahendra Singh Dhoni ... BCCI has always tried to downplay the contributions of this great leader Indian cricket had ever produced. This is happening even so more now. This Netflix produced series could have been much better but it fails to live Up to expectations. .....

I haven't seen a bigger waste of opportunity in a documentary ever. They missed so many big names of the rivalry. Why even bother making such a half-cooked documentary if you couldn't manage to get the players' interviews? And if it's supposed to deal with India vs Pakistan tours back in the 2000s, what's Ashwin and Dhawan doing in all of these? The shock factors make absolutely no sense. Shehwag and Akhtar were probably the only ones they could manage and made them blabber throughout the 3 episodes. Cringe, pathetic and a horrible attempt at a documentary. Not to mention, pretty damn biased as well.

While I enjoyed watching this 3 part show, this felt....very incomplete and wasn't what I expected it to be. The show is primarily from Sehwag and Shoaib Akthar's POV and the roles they played in the India's tour of Pakistan.

The cricket rivalry is more than the one tour and while there's some political context provided, it's not enough to do justice to the title of the doc. I understand that given the vast (cricketing) history between both these nations, it's not easy to make a documentary but just call it "2004 India tour of Pakistan" instead of making it sound like it's about the cricketing history. Plus, it's misleading this is mainly about the ICT making history in bilateral competition. If that's what you're going for, go all out telling the story from India's POV but they didn't do that either.

It's always fun to listen to people share stories and context you may not have known behind real life events, that was the only fun part about the show. But as much as I liked listening to everybody speak, it wasn't what was sold to me and it was too less. I mean, how do you make a documentary about India vs Pakistan cricket without the T20 final?

Watch it anyway, but go in without expectations and go in to listen to a handful of players talk about the context behind ONE series and you'll probably not be disappointed.