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Playing cricket in Kashmir

Ahead of India’s national elections, Owen Bennett Jones has been visiting the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir. In this report he looks at a sport central to Indian identity – cricket. Kashmir's one of only two places (England being the other) that produces the type of willow suitable to be turned into cricket bats, so his report begins with a trip to a factory ...

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