When the sports teams from India and Pakistan play each other, attention shifts beyond tactics and team combinations to a symbolic gesture — or the lack of one.

A Sri Lankan cricket official says the sport's national governing body has formally asked Pakistan to reconsider its planned boycott of a Twenty20 World Cup game with India next week.

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what is behind the tensions at the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

A motorcyclist and vehicles drive past the site of suicide bombing at a highway on the outskirts of the city of Khuzdar, in southwestern Pakistan, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo) ISLAMABAD (AP) — The death toll from a school bus bombing in ...