The Twenty20 World Cup will really be lit up by an India-Pakistan battle : There will be a Twenty20 World Cup blockbuster on Sunday between...

 The Twenty20 World Cup will really be lit up by an India-Pakistan battle :

There will be a Twenty20 World Cup blockbuster on Sunday between India and Pakistan, and the excitement over the game shows how enduringly popular the contest is between India's bickering neighbors on the subcontinent.

When asked if it's simply another game, India's Virat Kohli and Pakistan's Babar Azzam both said, "No."

Since independence from British colonial authority in the mid-20th century, the nuclear-armed neighbors have gone to war three times and remain at loggerheads over Kashmir.

After hosting Pakistan in a two-match bilateral series in 2013, India and Pakistan have only met in international events thereafter, the most recent of which was the 2019 One-Day International World Cup in England.