Varanasi, Sept. 14 -- Cricket fans in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi performed aarti and prayed for team India's victory against Pakistan in the Asia Cup match on Sunday.

An Indian Cricket fan who participated in the pooja said, "We hope that just the way our Indian Army defeated the Pakistani Army, similarly, we hope that our cricket team will also defeat their team one-sidedly today. The Pakistani team lags behind us in terms of cricketing skills and understanding of cricket. Our cricket team will fight like soldiers, and that is why we are calling it Operation Sindoor 2."

Meanwhile, the scheduled cricket match is facing severe criticism from the families of the Pahalgam victims as well as the opposition.

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