India-Pakistan rivalry: Whatever happened to ‘cricket diplomacy’? | ICC Cricket World Cup

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On Saturday, Pakistan will play India in a Cricket World Cup game that might go down as the most-watched cricket broadcast in history and some tickets on the black market are selling for as much as $300,000.

But whether any Pakistan fans will be allowed into the country, let alone the stadium, seems increasingly unlikely.

Either way, the rivalry remains the biggest in cricket – despite the fact that India last toured Pakistan in 2006 and the two have not played a bilateral series for more than a decade.

Yet, there was a time, the nostalgists will tell you, when cricket united the two…



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