The latest edition of one of the fiercest rivalries between nations and sport plays out this Sunday when India and Pakistan meet in the Cricket World Cup in England, in a showdown expected to attract up to 1 billion fans to their TV sets. India vs Pakistan is a match imbued with the cricket obsessions of both countries’ populations, but also the broader rivalry between the two neighbors.
That will be transported to a foreign field on Sunday when the pair meet in their 2019 ICC World Cup group stage game at Old Trafford, Manchester.
The magnitude of the game is hard to exaggerate, and will generate interest to rival any other sporting event this year, including the American extravaganza of the Super Bowl and the recent UEFA Champions League final.
Television audiences of up to 1 billion people are expected to tune in as India, a cricket-obsessed nation of 1.3 billion, p
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