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Not just cricket when it's India vs Pak
Updated On: 16 February, 2015 07:28 AM IST | | Smita Prakash
I just choke on the term ‘cricket’ diplomacy when it comes to India and Pakistan. Seriously, you need to be in a stadium with Indian and Pakistani cricket fans during one such match to experience the animosity

I just choke on the term ‘cricket’ diplomacy when it comes to India and Pakistan. Seriously, you need to be in a stadium with Indian and Pakistani cricket fans during one such match to experience the animosity. No, really. This isn’t “sportsmanship” of the extreme kind. It is antipathy bordering on visceral hate. And it comes up most during a high profile cricket match. What diplomacy and what diplomats? The sheer glee on the faces of Indian and Pakistani diplomats when wickets of the other side topple has to be seen to be believed.

Indian fans celebrate after batsman Virat Kohli scores a century during the India-Pakistan match at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday. Pic/AFP
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