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No passion, no partisans, no sport

It's not a good idea to bring religion into the game, but all competitive sport is about passion. To expect a crowd not to be partisan when India and Pakistan play on each other's turfs is a fantasy

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8 min read Last Updated : Oct 21 2023 | 9:34 AM IST

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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