Key Points
An India-Pakistan cricket clash isn't restricted just to the field, a lot more drama takes place off the ground as well..
The two Asian giants have not played a full-fledged bilateral series after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks (though the Pakistani team did visit India in 2012 for a brief T20 and ODI series) and their match-ups have been limited only to ICC events...
MNS chief Raj Thackeray is the nephew of the late Balasaheb Thackeray, the hardline Hindu leader and founder of Shiv Sena, whose party had spoiled many cricketing opportunities between India and Pakistan in the 1990s and 2000s...
"Balasaheb (Thackeray) had announced on October 19, 1991, that the Sena wouldn't allow the India-Pakistan cricket match in Mumbai in the wake of Islamabad's aggressive stance vis-a-vis our country..
In 1998, when the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)Shiv Sena coalition was in power in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena threatened to cancel an India-Pakistan Test match to be played in January 1999 in Mumbai...
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