Sakshi Venkatraman is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
Cricket fans from all over are descending on New York this weekend to watch one of the most highly anticipated sporting events in the world: the India-Pakistan World Cup match. And for the first time for South Asian Americans, the match is in their backyard. As a newly constructed stadium on Long Island braces for thousands on Sunday, those on both sides reflect on the gravity of the matchup, and how it means much more to them than just another sporting event.
The rivalry between the two cricket teams intensified in 1992, when the two cricket giants met for the first time in the World Cup. Over the next several years, they faced each other many times on the world stage, but growing tensions at home have kept the two from playing bilateral matches in over a decade. In 2008, attacks in Mumbai carried out by a group of Pakistani terrorists left 166 people dead.
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