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Auqib Nabi Earns Maiden India Test Call-Up: Baramulla’s ‘Express’ Turns a Kashmir Cricket Dream Into Reality

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Auqib Nabi Earns Maiden India Test Call-Up: Baramulla’s ‘Express’ Turns a Kashmir Cricket Dream Into Reality

Auqib Nabi Earns Maiden India Test Call-Up: Baramulla’s ‘Express’ Turns a Kashmir Cricket Dream Into Reality By: News Desk | 03 Aug 2026 For a young cricketer growing up in Jammu and Kashmir, the journey to India’s Test dressing room can appear almost impossibly distant. For Auqib Nabi, that distance has now been dramatically shortened. The 29-year-old fast bowler from Baramulla has earned his maiden call-up to India’s senior Test squad, a breakthrough that has placed a cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir at the centre of the national cricket conversation.…

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India-Pakistan World Cup match stirs emotions in cricket-loving Kashmir

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India-Pakistan World Cup match stirs emotions in cricket-loving Kashmir

Many people in Kashmir support Pakistan over India in cricket – a risk when the rivals face off. It’s always a highly charged affair whenever India and Pakistan play each other in cricket, but in the disputed, conflict-torn region of Kashmir, it’s on another level entirely. As in the past, Saturday’s ICC Cricket World Cup clash between the two countries, held in the northern Indian city of Ahmedabad, brings risks – as well as some opportunities – to residents in cricket-crazed, Indian-administered Kashmir. Traditionally, most residents in Kashmir have supported…

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