So India won. But there is always more to cricket than scores, fours, sixes and wickets. You would need to be an expert on history, sociology and politics to pick up on all the subtext whenever they play Pakistan, although the state of the relations between the two nations means the fixture comes around only in tournaments now.
The schedulers always make sure to pair them in the group stages, whether it is the World Cup, the Champions Trophy, the World T20 or the Commonwealth Games. This match, which was lit up by Smriti Mandhana’s brilliant batting, had more going on underneath it than even most of those.
