Aamer sohail

India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup 2024: Controversy is the side dish when India play Pakistan in any sporting event. But when it comes to cricket and that too the World Cups of either format, controversies at times become the main course and cricket the side dish.

The rivalry between the two neighbours has been fostered by passion, aggression and an intense hatred towards losing to each other for more than half a century and the advent of white-ball cricket has only stoked the embers as the two countries had frequently played cricket at neutral venues in the 1980s and 90s.

The rivalry on the field has, over the years, has been spiced up by three wars, the Kargil War, the Mumbai terrorist attack, frequent border skirmishes and tempered by diplomatic flashpoints at the United Nations and other international fora.