Once upon a time, cobbling up your own combined India-Pakistan XIs over long afternoons used to be standard practice for cricket fans. That was the era of fierce cross-border rivalries, when the two teams regularly played each other in bilateral contests in addition to the desert derbies in Sharjah.
Things have changed now. India and Pakistan are not allowed to play against one another often enough, but memories of those great ODIs through the 1980s and 90s - and into the first decade of the 2000s - still linger.
