The Pakistan Team sets the Agenda.

Pakistan is certainly making a play at being the nice guys who have come over to play a friendly.

By projecting themselves as ‘inexperienced’, with just a ‘couple of seniors’ and implying that they are the underdogs, they are attempting to give a different feel to this series.

The idea seems to be to pose as a lesser team and lessen the intensity of the battle. The motive is debatable. Do they genuinely feel that their team is less of a threat or is it an attempt to lull the Indians into over-confidence?

In turn, the Indians have gone silent. There are neither ‘no meeting fire with fire’ jingoistic statements coming out of the Indian camp and nor any touchy-feel statements.

One hopes that the Indians are not taken in by the bhai-bhai statements emanating out of the Pakistan camp.