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India v Pakistan

A fairy-tale match

One of the most abused clichés in sport is the one about the game, ratherthan a team or individual, being the winner. For those on the losing side,especially after a contest decided by the length of a fingernail, such aglib phrase is no more than a slap in the face, another reminder of fallingagonisingly short. But sometimes, maybe once every decade or so, sport hasthe ability to transcend itself and render the result immaterial. So it waswith this one-day international at Karachi



India v Pakistan

The birth of reverse swing

This wasn't a Test that you would call great in the traditional sense. It was a no-contest: Pakistan won by an innings and 87 runs, their biggest win over India at the time. But the match was significant for the performance of one man – Imran Khan took 11 wickets, eight of them in the second innings, five in the space of 25 balls, and the legend of reverse-swing was born



India v Pakistan

One resounding stroke

Almost two decades later, Javed Miandad, the scrapper who knew not how to throw in the towel, would confess to having almost done just that



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An epochal moment

Jadeja's blitz, Prasad's triumph and Miandad's last gasp

The rollercoaster Test

Many points of crescendo

The Tempest



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