Watch India vs Pakistan Semi Final The Blockbuster Before The Final Live | India vs Pakistan Duel in World Cup Live Stream Online | India vs Pakistan Live Stream HD TV.In case you were not among the billion-plus people watching today's Cricket World Cup semi-final, India has just won. It was a tough, close match with both sides getting a chance to show off their bowling. That's not this Indian team's strength, but they were in good form today and overpowered the Pakistani batsmen, who started strong but couldn't hold out.This year's World Cup has been New India all the way, a multi-billion-dollar, 21st century corporate sponsorship-palooza. (A Pepsico executive recently told me that a single World Cup promotion - vote for your favorite chip flavor inspired by one of the teams - attracted 50 million votes.) The stands were filled with celebrities of all kinds - not just the leaders of the two nations but also Bollywood stars like Aamir Khan and Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. But in other ways the atmosphere in Delhi reminded me of pre-boom India, when I first learned cricket. It was 1997, and I was here taking some time off after graduate school to write and travel. This was the 50th year of independence for both countries, a year before India became a declared nuclear weapons power, and more than 10 years before the Mumbai terrorist attacks. It seems unthinkable now, but in the fall of 1997, the Indian team played a series of one-day international matches in three Pakistani cities — Hyderabad, Karachi and Lahore — with the home team winning two. No one could talk about or, it seemed, think about anything else, so I figured I should really learn the rules of the game. Then as now, when the two nations played cricket, there was no way to avoid it. Every television, portable radio and car stereo broadcast the same thing, and everyone around me was tuned only to that frequency. It was the same scene today— the whole city watching and listening together.
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