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Cricket can mend fences

REUTERS, Rawalpindi
Pakistan and India met in the deciding Test of an enthralling cricket series on Tuesday, which leaders from both sides believe can give new impetus to a stuttering peace process between the old enemies.
Symbolising the spirit in which the tour has been played, Indian and Pakistani flags fluttered side-byside above the sun-drenched ground in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
In the small crowd, fans from both countries sat together and traded cheers and jeers as the game progressed.
India put Pakistan into bat and
were in control after bowling the home side out for 224 runs.
Local hero Shoaib Akhtar, nicknamed the "Rawalpindi Express" for his fierce deliveries, grabbed a wicket with his first ball in reply, but the visitors survived the remaining overs unscathed.
India's cricketers have not been on a full tour of Muslim Pakistan since 1989, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister and the Soviet Union still existed.
The series is the most powerful symbol yet of thawing ties between the cricket-mad, nuclear-armed rivals, coming less than two years after they were on the brink of a fourth war.
It has been likened to the "pingpong diplomacy" US president Richard Nixon used in the early 1970s to establish contact with communist China.
"Cricket is extremely important," said Inderjit Singh, a turbaned Sikh
shopkeeper from the central Indian city of Nagpur on his first ever visit to Pakistan.
"Thanks to cricket many Indian people are coming here and forming friendships with Pakistanis," he added above the din of local supporters around him.
In matches that revive one of the great rivalries in sport, India won the one-day series of games 3-2. But the more prestigious series of five-day Test matches stands at 1-1.
"Where bullets were being fired, now cricket is being played," Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said last month, as his party made warming relations with Pakistan a central issue in upcoming elections.
He and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf are the main architects of a tentative peace process which has focused on
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fans waving the saffron, white and green national flag surrounded by thousands of ecstatic Pakistanis, have had a greater impact than any politician's speech.
Cricketers past and present recognise that the series goes far beyond the boundary rope.
"This was the medium to get everyone together," former Pakistani player Intikhab Alam said.
Foreign secretaries are due to meet in May or June before foreign ministers gather in July or August to push forward a "composite dialogue" that will include the key issue of Kashmir, the Himalayan region claimed by both countries.
The two sides have agreed a ceasefire along the de facto border separating their armies in Kashmir, which lies at the heart of their dispute and triggered two of three wars they have fought since independence and partitionin 1947.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at stumps on the first day of the third and final Test between Pakistan and India at the Rawalpindi Stadium on Tuesday:
PAKISTAN: Firstinnings
Farhat lbw b Nehra 16
Umar lbw b Balaji 9
Hameed c Laxman b Pathan 26
Inzamam c Patel b Nehra 15
Youhana b Pathan 13
Kamal lbw b Balaji 21
Akmal c Laxman b Balaji 17
Sami run out 49
Akhtar b Balaji 0
Akbarlbw b Kumble 25
Kaneria not out 4
Extras: (b-14,lb-5, nb-3, w-7) 29
Total: (All outin 72.5 overs) 224
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-34, 3-77, 4-77, 5-110, 6-120, 7-137, 8-137, 9-207
Bowler O M R W
Pathan 22 7 49 2
Balaji 19 4 63 4
Nehra 21 4 60 2
Ganguly 2 0 9 0
Kumble 8.5 2 24 1
INDIA: Firstinnings
Sehwag c Hameed bAkhtar 0
Patel not out 13
Dravid not out 10
Total: (For 1 wktin 15 overs) 23
Fall of wicket: 1-0
To bat: Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Yuvraj, Pathan, Balaji, Kumble, Nehra
Bowler O M R W
Akhtar 5 4 4 1
Akbar 5 0 14 0
Kaneria 3 0 4 0
Sami 2 1 1 0
Umpires: David Shepherd (England) and Rudi Koertzen (South Africa)