Cricket implications after missile attack on Kashmir

India’s coach Gautam Gambhir, a former politician for the country’s ruling BJP party, has declared that India should stop playing all cricket against Pakistan following a recent militant attack on tourists in Kashmir.

The forthright Gambhir was speaking before Indian airstrikes against a range of targets in Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday, which have cast further doubt on cricket meetings between the two south Asian nations.

Tension has escalated between India and Pakistan. Credit: AP

Such an eventuality would be a disastrous outcome for world cricket, and the next step in the freezing of sporting relations between the game’s most passionate on-field rivals.

The prospect of India and Pakistan no longer playing each other at global tournaments would be a huge hit to the commercial value of those events, from which most cricket nations draw the funding that keeps them afloat.

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