3 min readFeb 10, 2026 06:34 PM IST The news that trickled out of Islamabad late on Monday, that the Pakistan government has given the go-ahead to their team to play their T20 World Cup group-stage fixture against India in Colombo on Sunday, was received well by the Indian team, assistant coach Ryan Ten Doeschate said. The Dutchman, speaking two days before their fixture against Namibia in New Delhi, insisted that the team had been mentally preparing for the fixture as if the game was always going to be played. “First of all, I think it’s great that the game is back on, we never changed (our) preparation (or thought) that the game wasn’t going to happen. We always had an impression that something would transpire and we would play, so it’s not a big change in the way we go about things,” he told media at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground on Tuesday. “We kind of got confirmation late yesterday. Early this morning, it started coming through that the game was going ahead. We’d …