India beat Pakistan in Semifinal 30th march 2011

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  india-pakistan-highlight-video.notlong.com MOHALI Sports thrive off rivalries, the bad blood being the lifeblood of the game. But unlike football — derby dates are the first matches that fans look for when the fixtures calendar comes out — cricket can't brag about rivalries on such consistent basis. Such matches beckon few and far between. india-pakistan-highlight-video.notlong.com Even Ashes, the most enduring cricket rivalry, and Trans-Tasman enmity compare palely to those in north London, Merseyside, Glasgow, Madrid and Barcelona. Thus precisely for this reason, we should cherish the India-Pakistan rivalry. For more political and historic than cultural or sportive reasons, India and Pakistan hate each other with the bitter intensity of 1000 pickled lemons — and they always have done. They're the cocky kids arguing whose dad's bigger, neighbours preening over their pebble-dashing, egging each other on, winding each other up. Former Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez's famous quote, "If Barcelona didn't exist, we'd have to invent them," wouldn't be at odds in the sub-continent scenario either. Strictly in cricketing terms, they're the US and the USSR racing into space, with missions to the moon and monkeys at the controls. http