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The India-Pakistan match of the ongoing Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad was a week ago. As cricketing action goes, it was a “phuss”, or what would be called a damp squib in the more polite English description. The crowds, however, didn’t think so. For them, as for any partisan, the more one-sided the game, the better — as long as their side was winning.
Three important debating points endure, however. At the end of the day, the crowd — not the winning Indian team — became the story, and not just because some people greeted Pakistani wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan with
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