India, Jan. 8 -- The current India-Bangladesh cricket tension is real, Bangladesh's board has told the ICC it wants its T20 World Cup 2026 games moved out of India, citing safety concerns, and the flashpoint has been amplified by Mustafizur Rahman-IPL row and Bangladesh's decision to halt IPL broadcasts.

But even at its noisiest, this isn't India-Pakistan. The cleanest way to prove it is not politics, it's cricket history: the volume of flashpoints, the scale of rivalry moments, and the competitive threat level are simply not in the same universe.

India-Pakistan is cricket's most overqualified rivalry because it has had decades to manufacture memories, and it has produced iconic matches across eras and formats, often on the biggest stag...