India, Feb. 7 -- When news of Bangladesh's withdrawal from the T20 World Cup hit, I was at the India-Bangladesh border, chatting to a BSF jawan. He was on his usual six-or-eight hour standing up duty, leaning languidly against the bamboo railings that marked the end of Indian territory. After that bamboo barrier - referred to on signage as IB (International Border) - a 20-odd metre patch of no man's land begins. Another bamboo railing then marks the start of Bangladeshi territory. A short distance from the BSF jawan, the IB, the no man's land, is a Bangladesh border guard. He sat on a lounger under a beach umbrella, backed up to his bamboo railing IB. Like the BSF jawan, he too was keeping a languorous eye on his fellow citizens. Ignoring t...