Abstract
Pakistan was created in the name of Two Nation Theory which implied that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations, each needing separate homeland for itself. After the creation of Pakistan the state was in need of a nation. In order to build nation out of diverse ethnic groups comprising Pakistan, communal Muslim identity was presented as a national identity of Pakistan. Apart from communal Muslim identity, Urdu, Political Centralization and Indian threat were also utilized to construct a nation which can fit the state of Pakistan. All of the above tools possess shortcomings and failed to hold Pakistan integrated. Cricket plays significant role as a national unifier in the nation building process of Pakistan. Unlike other four factors, Cricket helps in national cohesion cutting across the ethnic, lingual and sectarian divides. The paper attempts to analyze the nationalist dimension of cricket in Pakistan.
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