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If pets look like their owners, the Pakistan cricket team must resemble an anarcho-state. A Molotov cocktail of post-colonial pride and nuclear-armed rivalry, supporting Pakistan is not for the faint-hearted. Just ask former World Cup-winning captain and playboy-turned-Prime Minister Imran Khan who sits in jail, coach Bob Woolmer who died under suspicious circumstances after losing a match, or the Sri Lankan cricket team caught in deadly crossfire while training in Gaddafi Stadium, named in honour of the Libyan dictator after he endorsed Pakistan’s pursuit of nuclear weapons in 1972. Yet the s…

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