India beat Pakistan easily in their much anticipated Champions Trophy encounter in Dubai. Pakistan can't give their greatest rivals a game right now.

But Pakistan's crushing defeat by India on Sunday at the Champions Trophy has reignited the question: is this rivalry overhyped, propped up by slogans like "war minus the shooting" - a phrase George Orwell coined in 1945 to criticise excessive nationalism in sports?

India and Pakistan are renewing their epic rivalry on the cricket field in front of an audience of hundreds of millions of people tuning in to catch the two arch rivals go head-to-head in Dubai on Sunday.