Indo Pakistan Cricket : Predict The Winner At Your Own Risk!

People often predict the results of Indo Pakistan cricket series/matches before they begin, but they do so at great peril to their anaytical and forecasting reputations.
The great Imran Khan predicted that fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar would run through the Indian batting line up. At the beginning of the first test it seemed to me to be too tight to call. Both the teams had recently placed two of the best coaches in the cricketing world at the helm. Both seem to have different coaching mantras. Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's coach follows the trends used by most sucessful modern coaches. Greg Chappell, India's coach, follows only his own methods culled from his considerable playing experience, and from his cricketing brain which (people say!) is the shrewdest cricketing brain alive.
Woolmer has had a long and illustrous career as coach under whom South Africa had become the undisputed world No2 team. However, Chappell has made the Indian Team go from strength to strength in recent times. Pakistan, too, has become a crack unit and have defeated the mighty England team recently.
as I write, the first test match between India and Pakistan seems to be heading for a draw, with some help from the weather gods. So much for Imran's prophesies!