As excitement builds for Sunday's India-Pakistan Asia Cup final, cricket fever has spread to the Kashmir Valley.
On the outskirts of Srinagar, boys were seen playing an impromptu cricket match in a lush paddy field even as the harvesting season is in full swing.
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