It’s one of the biggest fixtures in world sport, and yet it’s becoming something of a familiar one.<\/p>\n
Sides representing India and Pakistan have met on each of the past three weekends, with the former’s men’s side racking up three consecutive wins against their rivals on their way to the Asia Cup title.<\/p>\n
This Sunday it’s the turn of the nations’ women’s teams, who face off in Colombo in the group stage of the Women’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
India go into the match having comfortably beaten Sri Lanka<\/a> in their opening fixture, while Pakistan endured a chastening defeat by Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n The matches between the men’s sides were ill-tempered affairs, with the teams not shaking hands and captains not engaging with one another at the toss, against a backdrop of political tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n Despite India being the World Cup hosts, all of Pakistan’s fixtures are being held in the Sri Lankan capital with neither nation willing to compete on each other’s soil.<\/p>\n