Fans excited before India-Pak match- India TV News

Indian cricket fans, faces painted with the colors of the Indian flag, wait to enter the Sardar Patel Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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An Indian cricket fan, body painted with the colors of the Indian national flag and a message in support of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, waits to enter the Sardar Patel Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Indian cricket fans wait to enter the Sardar Patel Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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An Indian cricket fan holds a placard in support of Sachin Tendulkar as she waits to enter the Sardar Patel Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Indian cricket fans wear masks of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and stand in a queue to enter the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Indian cricket fans jostle to enter the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, venue of the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Indian cricket fans, faces painted with the colors of the Indian national flag, wait to enter the venue of the the first one day international cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Chennai, India, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. India and Pakistan are playing their first bilateral series since November 2007. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K.)

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An Indian cricket fan is joined by others as he waves the Indian flag outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the venue of first Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. Four years after Pakistani gunmen laid siege to India's financial capital of Mumbai, South Asia's bitter rivals are meeting again on the cricket ground, marking a gradual thaw in their decades old rivalry. The first bilateral series between India and Pakistan since November 2007, comprising two Twenty20 matches and three one day internationals, begins Christmas Day with a Twenty20 match in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)