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<b>Editorial: </b>Cricket de-nationalised

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Friday's match shows that people are willing to watch a match that has no nationalist sentiment attached to it; indeed, it became clear that it is has become more important to get 22 top performers to play against each other, never mind the banner under which they are playing, than to wage surrogate nationalist wars. All that the new generation, which has no memory of being a colony, wants is a good game of quality cricket. This is not unlike soccer, where loyalties are to clubs rather than countries, except when a World Cup tournament is staged.

 

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First Published: Apr 20 2008 | 12:00 AM IST

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