| The 24 minute special hosted by Sujata Padmanabhan
and shot in the backdrop of Kashmir talks to current and ex cricketers
from India and Pakistan, as India begins its tour of Pakistan
The programme will address the issue of the sport inciting passion
that can easily put the much-talked about Australia-England rivalry
to shame, but also its power to build bridges between soldiers and
common villagers alike living across the huge barbed wire fences.
The show will include views from Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly,
Rahul Dravid, pace bowlers Zaheer Khan, Laxmipati Balaji and Irfan
Pathan, newcomers Rohan Gavaskar and Akash Chopra, veterans Ajit
Wadekar, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, E A S Prasanna and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
and Pakistani cricketers like Ezaj Ahmed, Saeed Anwar and Mustaq
Mohammed.
The programme also touch upon the two teams' peculiar advantages
and disadvantages, both in the five one dayers starting March 13
and the three test series starting March 28..
April 2004 series is the first complete Indian tour of Pakistan.
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