Abstract
The relations between Pakistan and India have remained pungent since 1947 due to conflicts over certain issues. To keep their bilateral relationship normal a lot of measures and mediums have been utilized, cricket is one of them. Whenever there was a mishap in relationship of both countries, game of cricket was introduced to normalize the ground for dialogues. The cricket is main passion of the masses of both India and Pakistan. The people across the border like to see their teams playing with each other but it discontinues whenever India and Pakistan develop some misunderstanding and especially India refused to play cricket matches with Pakistan. There is no doubt that sometimes diplomatic use of cricket could not help to keep the harmony between both nations permanently but this is also the fact that if this diplomatic source is utilized positively then it can surely help to mend the ties between India and Pakistan.

Anam Iftikhar. (2017) Can Cricket be used as a tool for ‘Peace Process between India and Pakistan’?, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 30, Issue 2.
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