First test cricket between India and Pakistan: Interesting facts

The India-Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most intense sports rivalries in the world. The tense relations between the two nations, resulting from bitter diplomatic relationships and conflict that originated during the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, the Indo-Pak wars, and the Kashmir conflict laid the foundations for the emergence of an intense sporting rivalry between the two nations who had shared a common cricketing heritage. Here are some interesting facts about the first cricket match between India and Pakistan.