https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-63333542

This is BBC news about India and Pakistan’s relationship in cricket, which is different from the cases outside the field. There had been issues in the Indian and Pakistani past including the independence of Bangladesh, wars on the land of Kashmir, and the Partition of British India. Despite the fact that there were conflicts between the two nations, cricket players themselves were not affected along the way. According to Sunil Gavaskar, a former Indian cricket player, there was no tension between Pakistanis and Indians. Instead, they had good memories and admired each other. Nevertheless, the outside conflict, wars in 1965 and 1971, caused India and Pakistan unable to play against themselves for the next 17 years. After the conflict has lost its steam, they were tied in sports for the next two decades until India rejected playing with Pakistan due to another conflict in Kashmir. The theme of religions, Hinduism and Islam, and the tension caused by them which divided India and Pakistan are affecting the areas of sports though the sports spirit surpasses the fight between the two nations.