Cricket, more than a sport
In March
2003, as renewed tension threatened an Indian team's tour of Pakistan, the move
to Lahore of an Indian team prevented another incident after another uprising.
Psl schedule and teams 2018 A month
after this tour, the Indian prime minister of the day was reaching out "a
hand of friendship," a formula that had introduced a period of rather
serene relations between the two powers of the Indian subcontinent. For which
cricket is more than a sport: a form of political affirmation already used
against the English occupier, of the time of the colonization.
The
diplomatic legs of February 2015, during the World Cup, produced more formal
effects in May 2015. Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, officially
supported the idea of a former president (of Indian nationality) the
International Cricket Federation to relaunch play series. "We made the
decision to launch series between our two countries to improve our
relationship," Narendra Modi said. The ball is now in the Pakistani camp.
Indian-Pakistani mixed doubles in
tennis
Their title
of glory, a final (lost) at the US Open, usually fills a few lines in
specialized gazettes. But this match lost in 2010 against the Bryan brothers
has brought Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi a worldwide reputation.
These two secondary players have the
particularity of being Indian and Hindu, for the first, Pakistani and Muslim
for the second. Their association lasted until 2012. They then chose to change
their partner for sporting reasons, having long carried high the currency they
displayed on the tournaments: "Stop the war, start tennis" (stop the
war, start tennis)
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