On the ball

Diplomacy is one thing, cricket quite another. But the twain did meet in Islamabad last week when Pakistan8217;s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureishi admitted he was keenly following the Indian Premier League matches. So who was he rooting for? 8220;My team has been knocked out8212;it was the Kolkata Knight Riders,8221; he said. Well, maybe that was diplomacy at play after all, for later in the evening it transpired that his Indian counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, too was a Knight Riders fan.