Not cricket: religious divide threatens a last bastion of secular India

Allegations against Wasim Jaffer of favouritism raise fears that anti-Muslim sentiment is infecting the game

It is often described as India's greatest unifier, a sport that - at least on the field - has been insulated from the religious schisms that have long divided the country.

But in recent weeks cricket's position as one of the final bastions of a secular India has come under attack, as the anti-Muslim sentiment that has been on the rise in India under the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) reared its head in an ugly cricketing scandal.