India, Pakistan and T20 World Cup
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The cricket-mad South Asian neighbors have a bitter history, punctuated by violence and wars. It makes this one of the fiercest, and most financially lucrative, rivalries in sports.
Prices of flights and hotel bookings to Colombo, Sri Lanka, have soared as thousands of fans flock to the city to watch India play Pakistan on Sunday in cricket's Twenty20 World Cup.
On February 15 at the R. Premadasa Stadium, India arrive as the side that the table, the margin, and the momentum say is supposed to win.
Despite announcing that Pakistan will be boycotting the match against India in T20 World Cup, the Pakistan government had not given any reasons. Now an insider has revealed the crucial details.
A Sri Lankan cricket official says the sport's national governing body has formally asked Pakistan to reconsider its planned boycott of a Twenty20 World Cup game with India next week.