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It’s not just cricket: India vs Pakistan is the greatest rivalry in world sport

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

There are plenty of much-anticipated contests in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. But nothing to compare with this Sunday’s match at Old Trafford, where India are billed to play Pakistan in the latest epic in a rivalry that dates back to Partition in 1947.

It’s a rivalry that is regularly punctuated by war.

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