Why India Playing Pakistan in World Cup Cricket Matters
The cricket-mad South Asian neighbors have a bitter history, punctuated by violence and wars. It makes this one of the fiercest, and most financially lucrative, rivalries in sports.
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India-Pakistan Cricket Match: A Billion Eyes on a Fiery Rivalry
The teams’ face-off in the men’s cricket World Cup is shadowed, as always, by the stormy history between the two countries.