A look back at the rare moment when the two players from the neighbouring foes came together to play as a team in a sublime show of true sportsmanship.
A new, makeshift stadium in the suburbs of New York will become the centre of the cricketing world for a few hours on Sunday when old foes Pakistan and India clash in a high-voltage game of the ICC T20 World Cup. It's a match that will surely attract hundreds of millions of eyeballs not just in the Indo-Pak subcontinent but the entire world.Back in the fall of 2010, there was a lot of excitement among the sporting circles of Pakistan and India, the two South Asian neighbours.
"It was a life-changing experience for me," Qureshi tells TRT World in an interview."Playing in the US Open final was the highlight of my tennis career," he adds. He believes that if two relatively lesser-known tennis-playing boys can help break the ice between the two neighbours, then cricket stars, idolised on both sides of the divide, can play a much bigger role.Even after 14 years, during which his partnership with Bopanna ended, Qureshi still believes the sport has the power to bring Pakistan and India closer. Photo: AFPCricket contests between India and Pakistan are a different story.
Pakistan mulled the idea of staying away from the ICC World Cup, which was held in India soon after the Asia Cup, but then changed its mind about any tit-for-tat action and opted to send its team. What is happening on the cricket front also happened in tennis. Pakistan and India were drawn in the Davis Cup, one of the biggest team events in international tennis.
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