DEREK PRINGLE

The Partition of British India 70 years ago, which created modern-day India and Pakistan, caused social disruption on an unprecedented scale. It also created an animosity between the two countries that simmers still, borne out by the recent refusal of their cricket teams to play one another in a bilateral series, a situation ongoing since 2007.
It wasn’t always like that, at least on the pitch. Before Partition, Hindus and Muslims played side by side in representing India against England in Test matches during the 1930s. But that changed in 1947 with Partition, when e...