There is also no evidence of Hashim Amla or Moeen Ali ever doing salat on the field in the middle of a cricket match after a fifty or a hundred. Are they not muslim enough to you?
In fact, I haven't seen many Bangladeshi cricketers doing the salat on milestones either. In fact, the only team that I've observed doing regular religious rituals on the field during a cricket match is Pakistan, which is of course their right. But not all cricket teams are like that, even ones with devout muslims like Amla or Moeen.
There's a huge cultural difference between India and Pakistan, which you fail to recognise. Religion is an ever present phenomenon in the Pakistani society and whatever happens on the field is only a manifestation of that. The Pakistani team can do a group sajdah and namaz on the field as a team because Pakistan is an islamic country that was ideologically formed for the cause of Islam. Therefore the Pakistani cricket team is as much a representative of Islam as it is for their country. Sure there's Islamophobia in India but by the rule of law, India is supposed to be a secular country and therefore its cricket team should not be seen as representing any religion in particular, but as a representative of people of all religions and communities. It would not be hard for the Hindu cricketers to do similar religious symbolism on the field after a victory but then they would be roundly criticised by many people and rightly so too because that would alienate the muslim players in our national team.
Pakistan doesn't have this problem because all of its players are almost always muslim and there's hardly any diversity in their cricket team unlike say India or Bangladesh. Pakistan is well within their rights to do group sajdahs, but what I would say though is that if a non muslim player ever gets to play for Pakistan by chance, he would feel a bit awkward and lonely when these group sajdahs happen after victories. It's why the Indian team doesn't wear its religion on its sleeve on the field. I'm sure almost all the hindu, muslim and sikh players in the Indian team pray in their respective homes, they just don't feel the need to do religious rituals on the field to advertise their faiths, like most other teams out there.
the next time the two sides meet.
