Srinagar: Seventy-year old Abdul Satar, a pavement vendor in north Kashmir's Sopore town, spent his entire day's earnings bursting firecrackers to celebrate explosive Pakistani batsman Shahid Afridi's "booming" performance in the Asia Cup in Dhaka on Sunday.

Satar, like many other Kashmiris, has long been a cricket lover, but when it is Pakistan playing against India, his adrenaline rise cannot go unnoticed by his family and friends.