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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Hafsa Adil

Indians slam ‘unapologetic Islamophobia’ aimed at Pakistan’s cricket team

A sea of blue shirts and Indian flags filled the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday [Amit Dave/Reuters]

It started with deafening boos when Pakistan captain Babar Azam took his turn to speak after the toss in the middle of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and carried on long after India had inflicted another heavy loss on their neighbours in the ICC Cricket World Cup.

The Pakistani cricketers were at the receiving end of incessant hostilities from the crowd during their match against the hosts at the world’s biggest cricket stadium, named after India’s prime minister and leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in his hometown.

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