China has accused the Dalai Lama of faking a passion for cricket to impress his Indian hosts. <br /><br />The spiritual leaderu00a0 aroused Beijing's anger when he attended an Indian Premier League Twenty-20 cricket match as a special guest last month when Chennai Super Kings (CSK) played Kings XI Punjab in Dharamsala. <br /><br />  <table style="width: 210px; height: 288px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="210" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/may/dalai-lama-cricket.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Faking it:</strong> The Dalai Lama with the CSK team. <strong>File pic</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Prior to the match, he held a "spiritual dialogue" with the players. During the session, the Dalai Lama said he had never been much of a sportsman, but recalled once beating Zhou Enlai, the former Chinese premier, at table tennis. He added that he had enjoyed playing football as a young man in exile, and liked cricket.<br /><br />Beijing's ire was voiced earlier this week in an editorial in the government-run People's Daily newspaper. "The religious leader was trying to prove to be a worthy son of India by participating in the country's favourite pastime."<br /><br />The dily claimed he had no right to speak on "China's internal issue concerning Tibet" if he was the "son of a foreign country".<br /><br />The paper's comments were rejected by a spokesman for the Tibetan Government in Exile. "It reflects the China's arrogance; since His Holinessu00a0 had no freedom in Tibet, he left for India, where he enjoys freedom."

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