The cricketing relation between India and Pakistan is, perhaps, the most bizarre in the long history of the sport.
At once, it is a force of unity and a sharp-edged exclusionary tool between the two nations, which are madly in love with cricket.
Those idiosyncrasies do not get a clearer reflection anywhere else than in the 50-over World Cup, where India enjoy a 7-0 edge over Pakistan in the ODI World Cup.